Is Your Business In Danger Of A Droop? You Need Good Posture Starting A Home Based Business, Even If It Is Borrowed!

IMITATION AS A MEANS OF INCREASING HUMAN EFFICIENCY
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Why are some successful and others not? Can the company you keep determine your chances for success? Are you using imitation to build yourself a successful business? If you spend time with those having good habits, you will have good habits yourself.

Even though you may not yet have developed the posture of good leadership skills, you can lean on the skills of a good business development coach/mentor to get your business up and going.

True wisdom is easy to spot…its timeless. If you are trying to make more money online, search out nuggets of time tested wisdom to help propel you from where you are to where your want to be.

Old books and articles are great! It can be interesting to look back in time and see how life and popular views have changed over the span of a generation or two, including the progression of thought in areas of business and commerce. Sometimes seeing what hasn’t changed is just as interesting as what has stayed the same.

If we look back, are there any business principles or practices that still apply to commerce on the Internet and using the best online business opportunities to make more money online today.

Here are some thoughts from the early 1900’s…

“…The acts of those whom I admire are particularly contagious, but I remain indifferent to the acts of those who are uninteresting. Acts showing a skill to which I aspire are immediately imitated, while acts representing stages of development from which I have escaped are less likely to be imitated. We imitate the acts of hearty, jovial individuals more than the acts of others. This point cannot be pressed too far since a surly and selfish individual often seems to corrupt a whole group. Also it is not always the acts which I admire that are imitated. If I am frequently with a lame person, I am in danger of acquiring a limp; one who stutters is clearly injurious to my freedom of speech; round-shouldered friends may at first cause me to straighten up, but soon I am in danger of a droop.

That imitation is merely something to be avoided by teachers, employers, and foremen is an idea soon banished when the importance and complexity of the process is comprehended. In teaching we find precept inferior to example wherever the latter is possible. Particularly in teaching all sorts of acts of skill the imitation of perfect models is the first resort. In business, however, insufficient consideration has been given to the possibilities of imitation in increasing human efficiency.

… Business men who had been especially successful in dealing with employees were asked the following questions:

In increasing the efficiency of your employees do you utilize imitation by:

(1) placing efficient workmen where they may be imitated by the less efficient?

(2) having the men visit highly efficient establishments?

(3) bringing to the attention of your men the lives of successful men and the work of

successful houses?

(4) bringing frequently to the attention of the men model methods of work?

(5) Have you observed any pronounced instance of increase or decrease in the work of a department due to imitation?

The men interviewed took a decided interest in the subject, and their answers contained much of general value. Some admitted that they had never made any conscious effort to utilize imitation as implied in the first four questions. Many others had made particular use of one or more of the methods. A few of the firms interviewed had employed all four methods with entire satisfaction.

The following is a fair representative of the answers. It is the response of a very successful general manager of a railroad:

``I beg to give you below the answer to the questions which you have asked:

``1. The superintendent and foremen in our shops are the most efficient we can find.
They are imitated, and thus influence the less efficient.

``2. We have the heads of our departments visit other shops to see how they are progressing in the same line. If they notice anything that is better than what we have as to the output of work, we imitate it by following their methods.

``3. We have not made a practice of bringing to the attention of our employees the lives
of successful men or the work of successful houses.

``4. We keep standard models of the different kinds of work in plain view of the men. If
there is any doubt in their minds, they can study these models.
``5. We have observed a pronounced increase in the work of our shops, due to imitation,since in lining up our organization we put the most competent men we have at the head. Their influence over the men in their charge increases the work, as there is no question that a good leader is imitated by the men, and the company is benefited by this imitation.''

Judged by the results of the investigation the most common use of imitation is in the training or ``breaking in'' of new employees. The accepted plan is to pick out the most expert and intelligent workman available and put the new man in his charge.

By observing the veteran and imitating his actions, working gradually from the simpler operations to the more complex, the beginner is able to master technic (techniques) and methods in the shortest possible time. The psychological moment for such instruction, of course, is the first day or the first week. New men learn much more readily than those who have become habituated to certain methods or tasks; not having had time or opportunity to experiment and learn wrong methods, they have nothing to unlearn in acquiring the right.

They fall into line at once and adopt the stride and the manner of work approved by the house…”

The timeless message is to look for examples of leadership and success. Read every good book you can get your hands on, get on training calls, explore your company’s training library, and stay in contact with your sponsor/coach.

Learn from the success of others, and then do what they do. Good leaders build good organizations. Imitation is the most direct path to success. You no longer have to re-invent the wheel. Just get a good coach who you can imitate and who will plug you in to good marketing system. You can click on the link in the About the Author Box at the end of this article to contact me for information on how you can become a full-time six or seven figure income earner.

Lead by example! Make sure you have a good mentor/coach. If you know that you have the entrepreneurial drive to build your own business, take advantage of opportunities that use automated marketing systems to help you make more money online and get yourself on the direct path to success!
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You Can Do this, Without Question.

The Best Really Is Yet To Come!

Glen Jacobs

Business Development Partner and Coach

Managing Member / Live Life Well, LLC

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