{"id":3553,"date":"2017-05-10T14:17:08","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T14:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/?p=3553"},"modified":"2017-05-10T14:17:08","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T14:17:08","slug":"10-tips-for-success-from-the-founder-of-best-buy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/10-tips-for-success-from-the-founder-of-best-buy\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Tips for Success from the Founder of Best Buy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently I had the privilege of hearing Richard Schulz, the founder of Best Buy, speak. I was extremely impressed with his humility and his desire to interact with students. His lecture outlined 10 tips for being a successful leader in an organization.<\/p>\n

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  1. One team one dream<\/strong>. The focus here is on selling the vision to your team in an effort to get buy in from each member of your employees.<\/li>\n
  2. Focus on the Customer ALWAYS.<\/strong>\u00a0Your ability as a business to meet the needs of your customer is absolutely ESSENTIAL.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n
  3. Build Partnerships.<\/strong>\u00a0If you don’t have a skill and\/or have a need on your team then find it.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n
  4. Reward and Acknowledge the Source of Great Work.\u00a0<\/strong>This can be achieved by publicizing employees that are doing impressive and exceptional work. Rewarding great work will empower your employees by creating an environment where everyone’s work is appreciated, especially when full effort is being shown.<\/li>\n
  5. Always Prepare for Change.\u00a0<\/strong>The marketplace is constantly shifting and in flux, being flexible and innovative is a must.<\/li>\n
  6. Fail Fast, Move on.<\/strong>\u00a0Pretty self explanatory: if you are too afraid to fail you won’t discover new things and if you don’t fail fast then you will waste resources.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n
  7. Learn from Your Mistakes.\u00a0<\/strong>In life you are always learning and growing, Mr. Shulze emphasized the importance of evaluating your mistakes to learn from them.<\/li>\n
  8. Control Your Own Destiny.\u00a0<\/strong>As entrepreneurs, one of the perks of starting your own business is your ability to sort of control your own destiny. Take advantage of that opportunity.<\/li>\n
  9. Rewrite Your Rules For Your Business.<\/strong>\u00a0When writing and re-writing the rules of your business you must have a customer centric approach.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n
  10. Integrate\u00a0a Meaningful Set of Values that Everyone Understands.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Recently I had the privilege of hearing Richard Schulz, the founder of Best Buy, speak. I was extremely impressed with his humility and his desire to interact with students. His lecture outlined 10 tips for being a successful leader in an organization. One team one dream. The focus here is on selling the vision to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3554,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3553\/revisions\/3554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}