Lose the “Tude”
Have you ever been around other entrepreneurs or professionals within a business atmosphere that think they are a God or something? They act as though they can do no wrong and that they are the greatest gift ever given to this great world.
Boy, I sure can’t stand to be around idiots like this, and sad to say, there are tons of them out there folks!
Many people just don’t understand the fact that there are many more entrepreneurs and businesses in public that usually are offering a product or service very similar to ours.
So if you want to improve your sales numbers, increase clients and have a positive reputation within your business community, then you better learn how to have an attitude that doesn’t turn others off when they’re around you.
The sheer fact that you have been able to make large strides in life and accomplished many things that others never will doesn’t give you the right to go around treating people like dirt.
It’s important for entrepreneurs to exuberate confidence, boldness and professionalism without coming off as someone who is cocky, full of themselves, pompous or just a complete jerk.
On one end of the equation if you come off too nice and soft while conducting business, predators will take your kindness for weakness and try to seize the opportunity to take advantage, bully and steam roll all over you.
However on the other end of the spectrum, when you go overboard with your confidence levels and become full of yourself, you’re destined for loneliness and eventual failure, because nobody enjoys working with a negative, stuck up loser!
2 Comments
Aaron
January 8th, 2007 at 3:25 pm
William,
I completely agree. I often see this with people who have experience what I consider to be average or moderate success in business. They may or may not be a millionaire and think that because they are succesful that they are the best. The other time I see this is people with new money that didn’t have to work for it. They had quick success in real estate or some other position that gave them the potential to make money they couldn’t have otherwise and because they didn’t have to work hard for the money they now think they are more “awesome” than the next guy. Which I don’t understand this mentality because people with money in the United States is no longer a rarity. People regularly make 6 figures and often 7 figures.
Obviously they think this because they think they are better than they really are, have a bunch of people blowing smoke up their butt, or are completely oblivious to the fact that they are not Bill Gates or Warren Buffett. Maybe they just don’t know that Bill Gates or Warren Buffett exist, which alone keeps me humble.
David Askaripour
January 8th, 2007 at 5:14 pm
Well said, William. It’s all about finding that balance between stern and gentle. It’ll take time for many, but it the end if you aren’t liked, then you — and in effect your business — will never be respected.
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