Like most of the other books that I have read on how successful business owners work, this book does not provide novel advice on effective behavior, but instead on the tendency to follow well-worn tracks – discipline, time planning, and strategies. Nevertheless, there are some rather untypical behavioral patterns that a significant number of effective businessmen employ that people do not talk about. Such methodologies can help put them a notch above the rest and be partly responsible for those incredible feats. In this article, we’ll share some of these unconventional behaviours that you won’t learn in typical management articles.
1. Embracing Boredom
It is for this reason that many businessmen and women know the importance of boredom in the serial litany of the modern age. They do not always ‘need to be doing something’ and they do not mind spending hours on end laying down and thinking. This practice can lend itself to some great discoveries and can generate good ideas. Lack of stimulus can make us think and is actually a good opportunity to expand our thoughts beyond the problems with which we are confronted.
2. Engaging in Physical Play
The majority of successful business people include a certain amount of play into their daily life in the form of physical activities or games or art. Besides working as a stress-buster, physical play activity helps in developing options-finding as well as group work. Such as engaging in group exercises like team games may enhance organizational bond forming and corporate unity which is good for marketing, sharing of ideas and work.
3. What I mean by practicing radical transparency is that you should throw down your walls and tell it all to your audience.
Modern leaders, especially the ones that have their own start-ups, tend to be fully transparent within their companies. This means being very open with their team and subordinates and are to report directly to one another. They allow challenges, success and failures to be shared across the organization, thus building a feedback and innovation culture.
4. Networking Just like the way we have been used to
Unlike most executives who obey the formal network standards, successful entrepreneurs like to establish natural relationships. In many cases they establish relationships in order to develop friendships, friendships like like-minded people and not only for business. Such an approach can ultimately result in better strategic partnerships that are more sustaining and beneficial to all partners.
5. Prioritizing Sleep and Rest
Of course, many young business people nowadays are happy to advertise the rat race, but the greatest businesspeople are not hostile to sleep. They know that work and invention are closely linked with the health of the mind and body. Sufficient sleep is not only good for the brain but also improves attitude and ability to cope with obstacles which are characteristic for entrepreneurial activity.
6. Fostering Diverse Interests
Most successful business persons have other interests apart from their business to help them have balanced lives. It is important to try something more creative like painting or singing, or cooking or traveling and see things in a different light. Such diversity of experience brings better values and approaches to their related knowledge or issues, they may even invent something that is out of the box, ideas that even those inside their own industry cannot design.
7. Leveraging Intuition
On one hand, it is impossible for businessmen to run their companies without considering results of market research and analysis because this would be rather unwise; on the other hand, instinct seems to play a major role in the decision making process in most cases. They know that reactions are good at suggesting solutions to a problem, particularly if these reactions are backed up with experience and learning. Thus, by really trusting their instincts, they can make such decisions without much theorized backup at times.
8. The Role of Mindfulness and Meditation integrate
Meditation is among the practices that are applied by program establishments to reduce stress and enhance concentration. Most people who work in high levels implement them within their usual schedules in order to improve their thinking and emotional toughness. It can also be of great benefit to business people as it assists one to keep focused and beware of all the barriers to good decision making.
9. Learning to Say No
Thus, successful businessmen are wise when choosing something responsibly so that no other thing would receive their attention. They know that accepting every invitation again impacts the main objectives of a conference, workshop, etc. In other words by practicing time management, they are able to turn down unnecessary or frivolous errands, or activities that would otherwise distract them, and lead an effective life therefore fostering success.
10. Building a Personal Brand
Most businesspeople understand the need to brand themselves, in addition to branding their business. In return, through their posting of their knowledge, stories, and principles, they foster an audience and numerous visible sources ready to converse and animate with them. Besides increasing their credibility, such practice also helps them to expand in other businesses.
When reading about business success it is easy to get caught up in tactics and techniques whereas what Ordinary/ work habits of highly successful people illustrate a far greater insight as to what motivates success. Starting with cultivating being bored and having many interests, up to developing a healthy sleep and practicing mindfulness can offer quite valuable tips for improving the experience of an entrepreneur. As the article portrays some of the ideas, it is easy to develop a winning mentality that also makes your life and work productive. Therefore, to step out of the established norms and look at different variations of habits that will make you a great entrepreneur.
