Make your Business Future Ready with this simple but powerful technique
Awareness of current market trends is the first step businessmen take to predict the future. But awareness alone is not enough. We need people to take timely actions on the acquired awareness. Awareness combined with action makes best use of current as well as all future opportunities.
For example, in spite of full awareness of the upcoming iPhone from Apple, Blackberry knowingly decided not to take any action and stick with its older version of success because of lack of conviction on emerging trends; possibly they fail to read a shift in customer’s behavior – wrongly judged defining mega trends as mini-trend that sets to die soon or may have limiting influence to a few selected people in a small geographical area. But they were wrong.
One of the biggest concerns all successful business people share today is their ability to read future demands of customer and how technology influence will shape it up. Because, the more accurate they are in their analysis, the more appropriate products and services they can position to serve the customer better. For a business person nothing is as unfortunate as having an opportunity but couldn’t make use of it because of lack of preparation. As they say; success is nothing but opportunity meets preparation.
But how to read future? For that one first need to learn to read present well. As a future friendly business person you prime task is to correctly is to understand existing trends that is slowly but surely firming patterns for future. Now the only ability one need is to correctly and quickly identify relevant trends by listening more and create triggers in business big data to point change in set patterns.
All happy customers of today are telling one set of stories but all unhappy and churned customer are telling stories of the future. One cannot ignore shift in customer’s behavior, many established company did not they don’t even exist. Hence, change in customer behavior, newer and unmet demands that customer keep on throwing and cost-effectiveness of offering are three bigger areas to look to make yourself future-ready for your business.
Anand Munshi – Futurist Speaker & Leadership Coach in India
Anand Munshi is Leading Motivational Speaker & Success Coach to Fortune 500 companies in India, Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai & Pune. He is Leadership Coach, TEDx speaker and Hindi Motivational Speaker on Employee Motivation & Sales. A Corporate Trainer in Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai & Bangalore to Fortune 500 companies and Internationally acclaimed Peak Performance Author of three bestselling books. Anand Munshi is Life Coach and his columns are read by over 20 million readers every day.
If you sweat more in practice then you bleed less in battle. Prepared minds are most suited for success because they know how to convert opportunities into success stories.
We all are successful depends which definition of success we want to use. The single most important determinant of one’s quality of success is the quality of effort that is put consistently and relentlessly over a considerable period of time, not just for a day or week or month. You need to put years of practise and focus; frustrating slow progress before you gain excellence in your area of interest. Whatever you are looking for – transforming your business to reach 10X level of growth or getting the next big promotion on job that you waited for years or even improving your leadership presence to gain charismatic personality the height of success is totally depends on the quality of the efforts you ready to put in.
Here are four simple tips to improve the quality of your efforts:
Focus – Consistency – Priorities
Even a small effort when done consistently for long period with impeccable focus can move mountains. You can tremendously improve the impact of your efforts if you keep on doing things consistently, with focused mind and undeviating priorities.
Well Informed Actions
It doesn’t take much to get informed and learn better ways to complete tasks but make a huge difference in the long run. Whenever and wherever possible, take help, look out for experts and use their knowledge to sharpen your efforts and gain good results in lesser amount of time.
Identifying next best step
Sometimes not getting desired results makes us feel desperate and we get overwhelmed to learn new things faster to get quick results. In reality all we need is cool head over shoulders to take correct decisions based on priorities and merits. Be clear what one thing you want to achieve and channelize all your energy to attain that success.
Knowing your battle field and competitors
Success in competition is all about gaining comparative advantages. Have a clear idea of what you want to achieve, what are external constraints, what are your inner limitations and finally whom you’ll be competing with. This awareness plays an important role in shaping well-planned actions and how to bring minor but vital changes in your approach to win over other and gain unbeatable edge.
Anand Munshi
Anand Munshi is Leading Motivational Speaker & Success Coach to Fortune 500 companies in India, Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai & Pune. He is Leadership Coach, TEDx speaker and Hindi Motivational Speaker on Employee Motivation & Sales. A Corporate Trainer in Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai & Bangalore to Fortune 500 companies and Internationally acclaimed Peak Performance Author of three bestselling books. Anand Munshi is Life Coach and his columns are read by over 20 million readers every day.
What Bill Gates & Steve Jobs saw was not much different except they just had courage to convert challenge into possibilities to do good for vast majority of people? Definitely, the world would have gone for few more decades without Microsoft and technology could have waited little longer to address the growing need of smart phone. But they took ownership to address pain of people and build world’s biggest modern day business empire of success.
Now what is that one thing in your personal and professional life that needs courage of newer thinking and bolder actions? People often get paralyzed with Think BIG, Start BIGGER but Act NEVER. Instead taking immediate actions even if a small one and go in right direction.
Most gifts of opportunities are tightly wrapped with cover of hardships. But if you wait long enough and have faith strong enough then insurmountable problems can be solved.
ANAND MUNSHI | Motivational Speaker & Success Coach
John is driving taxi for 36 long years and still he considers each coming day as wonderful opportunity to make the journey of his customers a pleasing experience – last Sunday was no different for him except for me, this time I was going to be his customer. I’ll be witnessing some simple and yet powerful lessons to make people feel important – the technique, I promise will be staying with me for the rest of life.
I was already late to catch my flight, already had multiple attempts to book OLA cab to drop me to airport but no cabs were available. Finally, after few minutes of juggling, I got booking confirmation message from OLA cab with driver named John Nicholas. I was surprised to see his customer satisfaction rating of 4.9 out of 5 and that too after completing over seven thousand trips! For sure this person is doing something exceptionally well and that too consistently. But what it could be? After all there is not much to offer as a taxi driver.
Excited and also little skeptical; I was keen to understand his secret – I rushed to get into his cab but even before that I could immediately started picking his secrets. He was already standing next to his cab with open door, waiting for me with a genuine smile. He was quick to pick my big suitcase and nicely put it into back of his car. No many driver would bother to open doors for their customers nor assisting with the luggage than what to speak of putting it by themselves.
I want to waste no time to analyze his secrets and constantly looking for clues but there weren’t any. Then finally I asked him how he managed to make very large number of his customers happy and that too for a really long period of time. To that he replied, “I never cancelled any of my trips and make sure to fulfill customer needs without fail. I been in this profession for long and I learned to quickly grasp their body language and act accordingly to make them happy. I immediately put on air-conditioner when customer coming from hot day while I put it off when I see customer is sick; I play new music for young passengers while I put old film songs for matured customers. I need to be quick to understand that they preferring safe and slow driving over fast.”
Is this how you get good ratings? To that he replied, “Though I’m a taxi driver but I never limited my role to it. I act as an enabler to generate positive-energy through my service. Customers uses our services for their comforts and if we improve their comfort level instead of creating newer problems then automatically they love to give us good ratings!” That is terrific message to all businesses-men who are desperate to improve their customer satisfaction ratings and hence revenue.
ANAND MUNSHI | Motivational Speaker & Success Coach
Clarity of purpose and commitment is all it takes to achieve everything in life. Ujjawala a humble and shy girl from Nanded, a small town of Maharashtra, beat one of the toughest competitive exams of India and secured medical seat in prestigious JJ College in Mumbai. What makes her success even bigger is the unconditional support of her parents who themselves didn’t had great education career and who in spite of having a very simple background – far away from the glamour and glitter of the big cities emerged victorious.
Her father in his own words said “we never forced our daughter for anything special or extra-ordinary. She is ordinary girl but efforts to reach her goal made her extra-ordinary”. After talking to her anyone can make out that she herself is self-driven and disciplined girl. Initially, before the start of any journey, all we see is not success but sincerity of that person towards her chosen goal. It is vital for parents to have complete confidence on their child and trust on their effort to achieve their dreams.
Today, she is successful and have already written great story of beating fierce competition but her journey to reach her goal was not smooth. She had her share of frustration and at times even loss of confidence. But what kept her constantly motivated was her strong conviction on beauty of her own dreams that always encouraged her to find one single reason to rise above all her hopelessness. She overcome every frustration with even increased efforts – gave special focus to improve her weaker areas, constantly explored newer and better ways to manage time, learned smart tricks to manger exam pressure and always strives to do well among top students.
Easier said than done. No matter what your capabilities are but you are tested again and again even with bigger challenges, for Ujjawala it was not different. Her bigger challenges came in form of lack of bigger exposure to national level competition where she’s really going to win but just like any other battle she won this too when she got enrolled in Shambhavi Institute where she got all what it takes to learn habits of successful person.
Her simple but powerful success mantra can be summarized in one line – once you set your priorities and trust your inner voice, seeking support from experience teachers – success is something that you’ll eventually have.
Let’s join me to congraluate Ujjawal and her proud family and wish her all the best for future success !
– ANAND MUNSHI | Motivational Speaker & Success Coach
From distance Zafar is just one other ordinary-looking vegetable seller but has got a fantastic quality of a businessman – gratitude towards customer for having his business. After I paid, he handed me vegetable bag and before I was ready to leave his shop he took few seconds out of his busy schedule and with big and sincere smile on his face said “thank you”. For a moment I felt magic in those two words. With these two words I immediately felt connected with him. What Apple, Google and other big companies dominating the world have in common? Is it really difficult to connect with your customers? Why well educated people even after spending years in business struggle to connect with their potential customers?
When I was around 8 years old, daily I was given exact change to get biscuits from a shop three blocks away from my house instead of buying it from a shop just next door. What was more puzzling for me was the same biscuits was also available at the exactly same price and also with lot of other varieties to choose from.
Obeying to our elders came naturally to us. Left with no option I have to reluctantly go walking every day, cursing my situation, as to why I have to do this extra work. But one day I took the courage to get this puzzle solved -”daddy please tell me why you want me to put this extra effort.” My father happily answered “my dear son the owner of that big shop does not really care to serve us nor he need our business.” Surprised with his answer I interrupted, “why do you that?” To that my father replied that the owner of that big shop is busy selling his goods only he is not interested in building relationships. Since then I noticed that his dealing with customer is purely transnational – you pay the price and I provide you with the product, chapter closed. In this world of cut-throat competition do you really care for developing relationships where pricing only seems to governs major buying decisions? The market don’t care if you’re big or small, but you are a clear winner as long as you can give value for money with good relationships.
Look around and you will see that the businesses with long history of success are not necessarily one with cheap prices but were able to connect with customers in more meaningful way addressing their needs and respecting their values. They had the ability and desire to fulfill their needs – both emotional and financial, kept their trust and continuously build loyalty of their customers. Any yes they did all this with smile on their face.
ANAND MUNSHI | Motivational Speaker & Success Coach
From distance Zafar is just one other ordinary-looking vegetable seller but has got a fantastic quality of a businessman – gratitude towards customer for having his business. After I paid, he handed me vegetable bag and before I was ready to leave his shop he took few seconds out of his busy schedule and with big and sincere smile on his face said “thank you”. For a moment I felt magic in those two words. With these two words I immediately felt connected with him. What Apple, Google and other big companies dominating the world have in common? Is it really difficult to connect with your customers? Why well educated people even after spending years in business struggle to connect with their potential customers?
When I was around 8 years old, daily I was given exact change to get biscuits from a shop three blocks away from my house instead of buying it from a shop just next door. What was more puzzling for me was the same biscuits was also available at the exactly same price and also with lot of other varieties to choose from.
Obeying to our elders came naturally to us. Left with no option I have to reluctantly go walking every day, cursing my situation, as to why I have to do this extra work. But one day I took the courage to get this puzzle solved -”daddy please tell me why you want me to put this extra effort.” My father happily answered “my dear son the owner of that big shop does not really care to serve us nor he need our business.” Surprised with his answer I interrupted, “why do you that?” To that my father replied that the owner of that big shop is busy selling his goods only he is not interested in building relationships. Since then I noticed that his dealing with customer is purely transactional – you pay the price and I provide you with the product, chapter closed. In this world of cut-throat competition do you really care for developing relationships where pricing only seems to governs major buying decisions? The market don’t care if you’re big or small, but you are a clear winner as long as you can give value for money with good relationships.
Look around and you will see that the businesses with long history of success are not necessarily one with cheap prices but were able to connect with customers in more meaningful way addressing their needs and respecting their values. They had the ability and desire to fulfil their needs – both emotional and financial, kept their trust and continuously build loyalty of their customers. Any yes they did all this with smile on their face.
ANAND MUNSHI | Motivational Speaker & Success Coach
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Belief System by Business Executive Coach & Motivational Speaker Anand Munshi
You form good habits and it’ll make you reach heights of great success! Be it personal or professional life, habit sits at the base of every such pyramid that decides the quality of life one’ll lead ultimately lives. Here are eight simple and yet powerful habits of super achievers, it has wired their mindset to achieve more and continuously aspire for BIG things in life.
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