Talent Trade Tidbit - Foundations of Success

Hi, this is Stephanie Maas and today I want to share what I thought was a really neat feedback from a speaker I heard at a conference and they were giving their foundation of success and encouraged us to adopt it as our foundation as well.

It was very simple, just three little things.

Number one, work hard.

Sounds silly, but for them, working hard wasn't just a matter of how many hours you put into each day, but what you actually put into those hours.

I kind of heard it as work hard, but also work smart.

Second thing they talked about was being teachable.

You're never too old to learn how to do something new, something better.

Every single day we see it, it's remarkable.

What's happening, what's being created, what's being become better.

So you got to stay teachable.

And the third thing, and this was my favorite was you got to have the right attitude, specifically, you got to have an attitude of gratitude.

If you do, you will always have more than you need.

If you don't have an attitude of gratitude, you'll never have enough.

I thought that was kind of cool, but then also what is the fundamental success of business?

People.

And it just got me thinking about how we treat people in the midst of business.

Let's face it.

We are all business people.

We have to make business decisions every single day, but let me encourage you in the midst of all that business to remember people are the foundation.

You need to treat them well, treat them right, and remember the golden rule.