A Successful Business Requires More Than Just Passion
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A Successful Business Requires MORE THAN JUST PASSION WHEN A BUSINESS STARTS UP AS THE RESULTS OF a person’s true passion, it is likely to initially thrive. However, passion alone will not necessarily make it successful in a competitive market. To be heading toward success, a…
A Successful Business Requires MORE THAN JUST PASSION
WHEN A BUSINESS STARTS UP AS THE RESULTS OF a person’s true passion, it is likely to initially thrive. However, passion alone will not necessarily make it successful in a competitive market. To be heading toward success, a business requires forward thinking, business plans, strategies and accountability, all of which are part of The Alternative Board approach. DANIEL HEPBURN That introduction led Daniel to the answers he needed and gave him a IS THE OWNER/DIRECTOR new understanding of business.
of Online Logistics in Auckland, an international “As a Member of The Alternative freight management company with a focus on Board, it has let me understand the shipping vehicles. true fundamentals of business and business life. I have learned the rules “Four years ago, I started my own of successful business formulas. These company to give people a better are things I just didn’t know before I shipping experience, particularly in became a Member. My Board Members at TAB have taught me how to ask the shipping vehicles. Shipping is a very right questions to achieve success.” competitive field. Our passion for cars is what keeps us going in this Thanks to his TAB Board, Daniel’s busy industry. Cars are what we leadership skills have also improved. know, and are what we do best,” he explains. “The main change I have seen is not just within the business but Before joining The Alternative Board, Daniel within myself. I have newfound remembers some nagging questions that confidence to lead my staff, and I wouldn’t go away, and, fortunately, a friend recommended the solution. have confidence in what I am doing, and what I am trying to “I was busy driving the business achieve. TAB has helped me to forward and ploughing my energy lead from the front and do what I into the business but inside I kept need to do to get stuff done.” asking myself, how on earth do I accomplish all of this stuff? I won- Daniel believes that resilience and dered to myself, what is next in this organization are key to a successful business. He lives by the mantra: ‘Never big challenge? All of the time, I was give up.’ The Alternative Board peer thinking, where am I going with the group process of accountability allows business and how do I get there? Daniel to create and maintain an A friend introduced me to The organized and well-structured business. Alternative Board and I became a Member.”
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