Success: The Five Ps That Help It Happen

Purpose Sooner or later those who succeed have a sense of where they are trying to go and some clear goals A star to steer by and outcomes to measure progress against If one does not know where one is trying to go it is unlikely one can get thereIn time this purpose or these purposes get chiseled into one39s individual DNA or the fabric and culture of successful companies When a company is successful it is often seen as driven by a purpose it has teams built with individuals passionately aligned against a common outcome Those who succeed are usually driven by a focus and ferociousness of purposePerspective With time and experience comes a sense of perspective an understanding that the world does not revolve around oneself which allows one to become more empathetic generous and invest in relationshipsPerspective also brings with it the realization that life and career while in one way short in other ways span decades and will bring a tangle of good and bad ups and downs To succeed one needs to grimace and march on in the bad times while not losing all sense of proportion and propriety when the force appears to be with usPerspective is also important to companies so they see where they fit in their ecosystems and can determine with whom to partner but also to visualize their category broadly enough to see opportunities and threats outside a narrow slice of geography time or marketSuccessful people and firms also put things in perspective when explaining and making their case They place things in historical or other frameworks to build convincing storiesPerceptiveness The Cambridge dictionary defines someone who is perceptive as one who is quotvery good at noticing and understanding things that many people do not noticequot This noticing and understanding can be about being emphatic in how one deals with people or seeing a niche or hiccup in a process that many may miss or being selfaware of one39s weaknesses and mental modelsToday we live in a connected collaborative world where people are looking for customized solutions While data informs the insight and the wisdom are extracted by the perceptivePerception can be honed and grown and will be a key for success as it will be what helps differentiate carbonbased analogfeeling individuals from increasingly powerful siliconbased digitalcomputing machinesOur perception and their power and precision will be what will drive profitable resultsPioneering Longlasting firms innovate invent and are idea driven They do not let their roots tie them down but rather use those roots to feed their wings to fly to the future These innovations can be across a range of a company39s system from supply chain to logistics to customer service to pricing to engineering breakthroughs to rethinking their businessTo succeed as an individual eventually everyone needs to become who they are We need to find our voice and superpower and each of us in doing so pioneer by becoming special and differentiated in our own wayDefining oneself is an act of pioneering Switching jobs cities and goals are all acts of taking a different path and trading the known for the unknownPersistence Part of persistence is continued practice Practice of a craft of a skill of an art A portion of it is patience and recognizing that the reaction to a thing is what will determine how the thing affects us and often not reacting but instead waiting is the most prudent thing to doA lot of persistence is recognizing that it is in the everyday doing the everyday improvements the everyday reinvention and repair after setbacks that forge us in the foundry and furnace of industry and lifeIt is sculpting each block of stone and putting them together that builds the cathedral Day by day Year by yearThe power of compounding skills relationships and returns That39s how every quotovernightquot success comes to beClick the social buttons to share this content with your friends and colleaguesThe opinions and points of view expressed in this content are exclusively the views of the author andor subjects and do not necessarily represent the views of MediaVillagecomMyersBizNet Inc management or associated writers

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