In his book, Richard Branson raises four rules that used to take difficult decisions, this refined principles respected throughout his business career.
1. Do not act emotionally
Negative emotions are a bad adviser, but equally wrong to act on positive emotion, he said. Consider the decisions yourself enough time to lose influence your first impressions.
2. Find the many shortcomings of an idea as possible.
Branson takes into account everything considered, that could go wrong, before deciding to go ahead.
"Nothing is perfect, so we work hard to detect any hidden flaws to correct them and to make things even better," he wrote.
3. Look at the big picture.
Branson celebrates the official opening of the first location of Virgin Hotels, in Chicago.
Before deciding, Branson is looking how it will affect this endeavor of his other projects, both in the short and long term.
"This endeavor may be too good to miss this opportunity, but how it will affect other projects and priorities, and if now is not the best time to do it, what risks you take to keep him in time? " he wrote.
4. Keep downwards.
In a blog post from 2014 Branson wrote that the best lesson that his father ever taught him was to prevent the downward direction; that is, to limit possible losses before moving forward with a new business venture.
Branson's father told him that will allow him to leave school at age 15 and start Student magazine only if he sold advertising worth £ 4,000 to cover the cost of printing.
These four simple guidelines can become your habit when making difficult decisions when faced with such
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