Wednesday, 31 July 2013

[ ::: ♥Keep_Mailing♥ ::: ]™ 21 Indispensible Qualities of a Leader

1. Character: Be a Piece of the Rock.

2. Charisma: The First Impression Can Seal the Deal.

3. Commitment: It Separates Doers from Dreamers.

4. Communication: Without It You Travel Alone.

5. Competence: If You Build It, They Will Come.

6. Courage: One Person with Courage is a Majority.

7. Discernment: Put an end to Unsolved Mysteries.

8. Focus: The Sharper It Is, the Sharper You Are.

9. Generosity: Your Candle Loses Nothing When It Lights Another.

10. Initiative: You Won't Leave Home Without It.

11. Listening: To Connect with Their Hearts, Use Your Ears

12. Passion: Take This Life and Love It

13. Positive Attitude: If You Believe You Can, You Can

14. Problem Solving: You Can't Let Your Problems Be a Problem

15. Relationships: If You Get Along, They've Go Along

16. Responsibility: If You Won't Carry the Ball, You Can't Lead the Team

17. Security: Competence Never Compensates for Insecurity

18. Self-Discipline: The First Person You Lead is You

19. Servant hood: To Get Ahead, Put Others First

20. Teachability: To Keep Leading, Keep Learning

21. Vision: You Can Seize Only What You Can See

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[ ::: ♥Keep_Mailing♥ ::: ]™ 10 Great Companies that Started Out Selling Something Else

Good companies start by selling what people want. Great companies adapt to what people want and start selling what they're going to want.

As you'll find in this post, sometimes that means completely changing your product or service. Here are 10 great companies that started as something completely different than what they're known for today.

Companies Started by Selling Something Else

#1 3M

Formerly known as the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company (3 M's, get it?), 3M started in 1902 as a mining company that sold a popular mineral to grinding wheel manufacturers.

From a mineral, they began selling sandpaper, then masking tape, then "Scotch Tape", and today they sell over 55,000 different products including everything from car care products to touch screens.

#2 Abercrombie & Fitch

Founded in 1892 by David Abercrombie and Ezra H. Fitch, Abercrombie & Fitch started as a sporting goods shop and outfitter.

They didn't become a clothing store until The Limited acquired them in 1988. Now they have over 300 stores in the U.S. and they're expanding internationally.

#3 Avon

David H. McConnell started Avon in 1886 as door-to-door book salesman. Sales were tough at first but he realized that he could gain women's attention by offering perfume samples.

Soon those perfume samples became more popular than the books, so he founded the California Perfume Company in New York, NY and it eventually became Avon.

#4 Colgate

Colgate was originally founded in 1806 by a soap and candle maker named William Colgate. They started by selling soap, candles, and starch.

Colgate didn't start selling toothpaste until 1873 and they sold it by the jar.

#5 Flickr

In 2004, Flickr started as a chat room with real-time photo sharing for the web-based multiplayer game, Game Neverending. Soon thereafter, they shelved Game Neverending, expanded the uploading and filing of photos, and buried the chat room.

In March 2005, Yahoo! acquired Flickr for $35 million.

#6 Microsoft

Bill Gates and Paul Allen started what eventually became Microsoft in 1968 when a local computer company gave the 13-year-olds access to a computer. They were quickly banned after they learned how to hack the system and crash the files. But the company ultimately re-hired them to find bugs and fix weaknesses in their systems.

Over the next five years they received sporadic programming gigs until Gates enrolled at Harvard. One year in, Allen showed Gates the latest issue of Popular Electronics featuring the Altair 8800 and Allen convinced Gates to drop out so they could develop software for personal computers.

#7 Nintendo

Fusajiro Yamauchi founded Nintendo in 1889 as a playing card company. The game, Hanafuda, became very popular in Japan but they knew the market wasn't that big. So they began to experiment in other industries. Between 1963 and 1968, Nintendo set up a taxi company, a hotel chain, a TV network, and a food company.

Finally, in 1974, Nintendo entered the video-gaming industry and today they're third most valuable listed company in Japan.

#8 Nokia

Nokia got its start in 1865 as a paper mill – the original communications technology. In 1868, Frederick Idestam opened his second pulp mill near the town of Nokia, Finland.

After a century of mergers and acquisitions, Nokia entered the mobile communication in the 1980s with the Mobira Talkman.

#9 Twitter

Twitter originated from a "daylong brainstorming session" between Jack Dorsey and his podcasting company, Odeo, with the goal of creating an online SMS service to communicate within a small group. It was codenamed, Twttr, after being inspired by Flickr.

At first, it was used internally by Odeo employees and they launched Twitter to the public on July 15, 2006.

#10 Wrigley

Like Colgate, the William Wrigley Jr. Company started by selling soap and baking powder in 1891. Like Avon, William Wrigley began by selling his products door-to-door and he enticed his customers by packaging each can of baking powder with chewing gum.

The chewing gum steadily became more popular than the baking powder. Today several brands of chewing gum are owned by Wrigley, including Juicy Fruit, Extra, Orbit, Hubba Bubba, and 5.

Bonus: Google

Mark my words, years from now our generation will be saying, "Remember when Google was just a search engine?" And we'll be like, "Yeah, dude, I remember the first time I used it back in middle school."

What's the Point?

One of the biggest excuses young people give for not starting a business is, "I don't have an idea yet."

They're just sitting back and waiting for that big idea. You know, that one-in-a-million idea. They think it'll fall out of the sky and into their lap when they least expect it. And that's when they'll get started.

If you want to be successful, just start selling something, anything. Figure out what people are buying and sell it to them. Michael started his journey by selling Pokémon cards to his schoolmates as an 8-year-old.

What you're selling will likely change over time, but the principles will stay the same.

Do you know of other companies that started out selling something completely different?

About Nicholas Tart

I'm a 23-year-old, full-time entrepreneur living in Colorado. My companies include 14 Clicks, JuniorBiz, and Monument Marketing. I'm the co-author of What it Takes to Make More Money than Your Parents. I graduated from Colorado State in 2010 and I'm dedicated to teaching and helping young entrepreneurs

http://www.retireat21.com/entrepreneurship/10-companies-started-out-selling-something-else

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[ ::: ♥Keep_Mailing♥ ::: ]™ dashboard lights

Warning ahead! 98 per cent of drivers cannot understand their dashboard lights (but do YOU know what these symbols mean?)

Nine in 10 failed to recognise the sign for a faulty catalytic converter
Just 12 of the symbols were common across all car models
A Mercedes-Benz E Class has the most symbols with 41 compared to a Nissan Micra which has 21

Britain's motorists are becoming a nation of 'dashboard dunces' baffled by the increasing array of warning lights in their cars, new research has revealed.

More than nine in ten people failed to recognise one particular warning.

The study identified 99 separate dashboard light warnings in 15 of the UK's most popular cars ranging from the humble Nissan hatchback to Mercedes-Benz executive saloons.

Yet just 12 of the symbol designs were common across all models.

Breakdown firm Britannia Rescue, which commissioned the report, also conducted a survey of 2,018 drivers that revealed more than half of drivers (52 per cent) can correctly identify all 16 of the most common symbols.

The company said the number of warnings on dashboards varied dramatically from one make to another and highlighted the Mercedes-Benz E Class for having 41 compared to 21 in a Nissan Micra, BMW 3 Series and Volvo S40.

The Britannia Rescue poll found that a quarter of motorists have had one or more warning symbols light up while driving in the past 12 months – most commonly the engine, oil or battery lights.

The Mercedes-Benz E Class (pictured) had the most symbols with 41 compared to 21 in the Nissan Micra

The most baffling light is for a faulty catalytic converter which was incorrectly identified by 95 per cent of drivers.

Next for confusion was the air conditioning light which 86 per cent got wrong, followed by a tyre pressure warning that flummoxed 71 per cent.

Nearly half (48 per cent) do not even recognise the brake warning light and more than a third (35 per cent) cannot understand an airbag alert, with almost as many (27 per cent) mistaking it for a seat-belt warning.

Dashboard lights commonly inform drivers about problems like poor battery condition, low oil pressure and high engine temperature.

But many cars now have lights for service interval indicators and seatbelt reminders along with malfunctions ranging from faulty anti-skid stability control to blocked air and fuel filters, defective diesel filters or fuel contaminated by water.

A Britannia Rescue spokesman said:'Cars have become so complex that the majority of drivers don't understand what all of the most common warning or information lights on a car dashboard mean.

'As in-car technology becomes more advanced there are now more and more in-car gadgets with symbols that support everything from the car's sat-nav system to its heating and cooling options.

'The problem is being exacerbated by the fact that many warning light symbols are specific to a manufacturer or even the individual model.'

The majority carry on driving and it takes an average 12 days before they get the problem checked but six per cent admitted they ignored a warning light for more than a month which can be costly.

Drivers who take 14 days to repair their car pay £200, more than double the £85 spent by drivers who get cars fixed immediately.

Mercedes–Benz UK said its high dashboard symbol count was due to the complex safety systems it fits including 'collision prevention assist' which boosts the braking force when sensors that monitor the distance of vehicles ahead detect a potential impact.

Spokesman Angus Fitton said its cars also have more warning lights due to its two-stage system on common items like fuel level which are amber initially and then red if no action is taken: 'Providing more information is preferable to providing too little.

'The two-level system does mean there are more symbols on the dashboard. Some are just to give you a nudge to remind you. Others are more critical.'

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A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.

Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively .

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

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