Top 20 Business Tips For Success By Seb Coe

How many of the 20 tips listed below can be related to your life prior to leaving the Armed Forces and how many would be valuable to your life now.

Not all great business or life  tips come from what is labelled as recognised sources.  People with really great views on business, life and leadership can be found in all walks of life.  The following 20 tips were  given by Seb Coe:

1 Leaders can be made

2 The vision thing

3 You can’t inspire people unless you understand them first

4″How?” and “Why?” questions that need to be asked in the right order

5 Set realistic goals

6 Strong leaders are not afraid to hire people brighter than themselves

7 Listen not only to what is being said,  but also to what is not being said

8 Pick your battles

9 You are not indispensible

10 Hold fewer meetings

11 Expect the unexpected

12 Encourage risk taking

13 Losing is not the same as failing

14 Never say never

15 Stick to your own game plan

16 Respect your rivals

17 Always listen to the market

18 Live a balanced life

19 Don’t be afraid to switch off

20 Yes you can

These are just the headings the full information is here

When you break these down you realise that you will have applied a lot of these principles during your military career, possibly without realising it.