We need to have keen decision-making ability. Decision-making ability is essential. If a person can see things and put them into practice, he is like a ruler with natural talent. Often, when ordinary people are still sighing for missing opportunities, these people have already taken advantage of the wind and done some important things early.
Decisiveness is extremely important for everyone who wants to start a business, which is repeated in those who make extraordinary careers.
William Phipps, a shepherd boy from Maine, just learned his craft from a shipbuilding carpenter. One day, he was wandering in the streets of Boston. He overheard several sailors talking about a Spanish ship that sank in the sea near the Bahamas. According to the sailors, the ship carried a lot of money. The boy made up his mind to find the sunken ship and took action at once. After many difficulties and dangers, he finally found the lost treasure.
Sailors are just talking, but young people are doing it. This shows that he is a man with decision-making ability. He has a strong trait and insight that ordinary people lack. When others can't see anything, he can find good things; When the opportunity comes, you can seize it quickly and decisively.
Think of what a famous person said: "What is an opportunity for a person who can't take advantage of it?" Those who have made outstanding achievements are those who can find opportunities in time and seize them.
The experience of a photographer named james reid in Cleveland, Ohio, USA can also illustrate this point. One day, he came across a news in a German newspaper, saying that Bohemian artists had discovered a new technology, that is, polishing the negative with an advanced instrument, so as to remove the defects in their works. James immediately went to Bohemia, hired an artist, and quickly introduced this new skill into his photography industry, thus achieving great success. He seized the opportunity at the first time and made full use of it. He immediately publicized his new photography technology and expanded his business. At the photo exhibition held in Boston, he won one of the most famous photography awards in America.
Thomas Cook's story is also a good footnote about decision-making power. At that time, Thomas Cook had to walk 15 miles to attend the meeting on abstinence in Leicester. Just as he was walking on the road, he suddenly had a brainwave and thought that he could easily persuade the railway company to open a special train for these participants. So, he started short-distance railway passenger transport. Later, Thomas Cook became the boss of a big American company, which originated from Thomas' whimsy of walking 15 mile alone. Many people have walked through the same 15 Li Lu, and some people may have thought of it, but unlike them, he put it into practice.
In the earliest cotton spinning industry, some small fibers always stuck to the bobbin, and people had to stop frequently to remove them, which wasted a lot of time and caused great losses to producers. Mr Robert Peel noticed that Dick, one of his textile workers, always worked at full capacity and never stopped.
Once, Mr. Peel asked Dick, "The supervisor told me that your spool is always clean. How did you do it? "
"They are like that." Dick replied.
"Dick, how did you get them to do this?"
"Ha ha, Mr Peel, it's a secret. If I tell you, won't you become as smart as me? "
Pierre smiled and replied, "That's true, but if you tell me, I will give you some rewards." Can you make all my looms the same as yours? "
"Boss, I can make every machine like me never stop." Dick replied.
"Well, what should I give you as a reward?"
"Give me a glass of beer every day and I'll tell you the secret."
"ok!" Pierre agreed. Dick leaned over his ear and whispered, "put the chalk on your spool!" " "This is the content of this big secret. Later, Mr. Pierre walked ahead of all his competitors. He made a batch of machines and put chalk powder on the spool of his own machine. Dick also got some money, though not beer. Dick's little idea saved millions of dollars for the world. However, if it weren't for Mr. Peel's intuition and decision-making ability, people might not know this method for a long time.
John Knight of Guatemala City was just a slave in Alabama in 1860. After being free, he became a docker, responsible for transporting fruit from Central America for a company. At work, he began to consider the possibility of going it alone. He put the idea into practice when the dockers he worked with dared not think about it. He bought 5,000 mu of land from the Guatemalan government and reached an agreement with the fruit merchant in New Orleans, who imported 2 million Guatemalan fruits every year. Since then, he has become a coffee grower and a fruit wholesaler. Later, he became one of the richest and most powerful people in Central America.
Similarly, when ichabod Watson was apprenticed to a blacksmith in Worcester, Massachusetts, he was just a shy boy. He found that there were no well-made metal wires in the United States, and the situation in Britain was not much better. A handicraft workshop monopolized the manufacture of all metal wires for pianos in the country. At that time, he silently made up his mind to make the best metal wire in the world and mass produce it. The shy boy opened his eyes wide for opportunities. He finally got the chance. Soon, his metal wire standard began to be adopted by various places, and the business scale continued to expand. He employs 700 people to work for himself and produces 65,438+02 tons of metal wire every day. With his keen judgment, ichabod gradually stepped into the ranks of American strongmen.
Young people should have several important qualities if they want to seize the opportunity. It is not enough for a person to have good qualities such as accuracy, comprehensiveness and diligence. In order to succeed in business, intuition is indispensable. Only by intuition can we make quick judgments and actions when opportunities come.
In addition to intuition, we need to have keen decision-making ability. Decision-making ability is essential. If a person can see things and put them into practice, he is like a ruler with natural talent. Often, when ordinary people are still sighing for missing opportunities, these people have already taken advantage of the wind and done some important things early.
Charles Goode used to be a collector and a shrewd businessman, but he was not rich. Once, he bought a patent for an automatic coupler from a person for 500 dollars. The inventor of the automobile automatic coupler insists that if this invention is put into the market, as an inventor, he must hold an important position in Charles' factory. Mr. Goode knows that the government patent office has issued patents for 70 different types of auto couplers. But his intuition told him that the automatic coupler in his hand was completely different from any one on the market, and he knew that he had got a priceless treasure. Nothing can limit the application prospect of his invention except the expansion of the railway industry. More importantly, Mr. Goode has extraordinary determination. He is the kind of person who will try his best to make use of the opportunity once he has it. He paid the inventor without hesitation and signed a written guarantee that he could get a position in his own factory. Later, Mr. Goode achieved great success with this automatic coupler.
A similar example is the story of New York Governor Colnel. Kornel's greatest success was that he founded the national regional communication organization, which earned him nearly 500 thousand dollars, and everyone who accepted this organization later made a lot of money. He bought the invention from a man who was not very rich for 2000 dollars. If Mr. Kornel ignores this invention like others, the inventor will be frustrated and may give up his efforts to make this invention public. It can be said that others did not see such an opportunity, nor did they have the decision-making ability like Kornel.
Therefore, it can be said that intuition and action, keen and original vision, rich experience and sensitive hands are the qualities that every successful person should have.
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