Monday, February 27, 2017

What Type of Leader are You?

This week I learned many things about myself and many things about different types of leaders and leadership styles. One of the articles I read throughout this week talked about disciple leadership and how it pertains to me here at BYU- Idaho as well as how it can effect the rest of my life. I mentioned how disciple leaders lead as the Savior led while he was here. They lead by example, they lead with the spirit as their companion and they involve the Lord in their decisions. The Disciple leader also has a firm understanding of who he/she is and what he stands for. He knows his values and does not say from them based on a popular vote or a situation that arises. I also learned a little bit about other business aspects from a video of Florina as she spoke about some different things. What stood out to me most was how to tell if a business was doing well or struggling. According to her, the sure fire way to tell is customer satisfaction. Although she admitted that customers do not always know what they want, but they do know if they are satisfied with what is being provided wither it be service or product. She gave an example that compared IBM to HP and how HPs satisfaction was increasing and IBMs the opposite. From this alone she made the prediction that HP would pass IBM at the time and it did indeed happen. That shed an interesting light on understanding customer satisfaction for me in business.
My $100 challenge business is coming along and changing rapidly. I have not sold my set of tires yet but I did add an additional part to my business. I was able to acquire so other unwanted jeep parts that the company was going to get rid of and I am adding them to the list of things I will sell in the online market expanding from craigslist into EBay and such. In this segment ill have a little different competition but I thing that it could help me begin to get the cash flow that I need to buy more tires and other parts to resell.

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