STREET DOGS: Are you effective?
The only way to measure your effectiveness – and what it takes
There’s only one metric for measuring your effectiveness in business that matters — money. Not job offers, not potential partnerships, not potential deals — cold, hard, cash. You can’t pay your rent with your potential because potential is worthless. In business and in life, cash is king. — Will Freemen Unfortunately, if you want anything — especially something lots of other people want, like money — you need to work your arse off; be smarter or at least more insightful than your competition; treat every task as an opportunity to enhance your reputation; exercise good judgement; have great patience; be attentive to what matters and what doesn’t; develop social skills, learn what motivates people; avoid getting side-tracked by distractions and nonsense; continue to learn; have valuable, marketable skills, and occasionally, get lucky. Just apply some combination of the above for a few decades, becoming more efficient and productive and luckier as time goes on. That’s not the only way ...
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