Building recipes for business success.

Get the recipe right, and you will have plenty to celebrate.

To bake a cake, you must develop recipes that work. The same holds for building a successful business or non-profit. Despite good conventional rules for success, too few follow them.

No amount of power or money will compensate if you hate what you do. It can be tempting to feel that the end will more than justify the means.  

Personal success means different things to different people. It has much less to do with finding the best career or business in other people’s eyes, but with creating a great company and achieving what matters to you.

Many people find this out too late. You don’t have to be one of them if you start today to write down your recipe for personal success. Perhaps the most important benefit of developing a recipe for your business is that it will reduce stress, and you will sleep much better.

Define your business’s primary purpose before you start creating your recipe. Once you have established the method, remember that straying from the simplest of recipes can produce results that range from mediocre to disastrous.

Avoid making the same mistakes over and over when building recipes. This shows that you haven’t learned, you haven’t created the right recipe, and you haven’t practised. On the other hand, making new mistakes proves you’re trying something different.

The loser repeats the same mistakes, never learning anything in the process, and continuing to expect better outcomes. Old content and knowledge are like an old fence; they need mending.

Quotable Quotes

“I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it should get you pretty near”. Margaret Thatcher

“A recipe is a story that ends with a good message”. Peter Sergeant