tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-200155762012-01-26T08:52:30.438-08:00Your introduction to The Billionaire Entrepreneurs' Master MindDonald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.comBlogger511100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20015576.post-77812976492365783042012-01-26T08:49:00.000-08:002012-01-26T08:52:30.449-08:00<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#009900">Good Afternoon, Billion Dollar Business Creators!</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="color:#009900">Are you feeling motivated this afternoon?</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">I know that I certainly am!</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style=""><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-weight: bold;">When I recently asked those who follow the 400 Year Project what they wanted to learn, the answer was: new research.</span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> One of the major research projects in 2012 will look at how for-profit companies can achieve breakthroughs in providing 400 times more social benefits and gaining 20 times more profits with the same or less time, money, and effort. </span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> I will examine how such improvements can be connected to complementary breakthroughs for for-profit companies, including expanding the market by 20 times, reducing all costs by 96 percent, eliminating 96 percent of investments, reducing cost of capital by 96 percent, and increasing an organization's innovations by 20 times with the same or less time, money, and effort.</span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> The results will be published in future years.</span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> If you would like to gain such insights sooner, you can subscribe to the weekly research notes and discussions of how to apply what is learned as the breakthroughs are developed.</span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> E-mail me (askdonmitchell [at] yahoo.com) if you are interested, and I'll send you the details of how to subscribe. </span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Please let me know how I can help.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="color:#009900">May God bless you, your family, and all you do in the name of Jesus!</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="color:#009900">With best regards, much appreciation, and all good wishes,</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#009900">Donald W. Mitchell<br />Chairman<br />The Billionaire Entrepreneurs' Master Mind<br /><br /></span><span style="color:black">Copyright 2012 Donald W. Mitchell. All Rights Reserved.</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"></p> <br /><p class="MsoNormal" style=""><br /><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="color:#009900"><br /></span></b></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20015576-7781297649236578304?l=billiondollarbusiness.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20015576.post-90565894253431400382011-12-31T11:50:00.000-08:002011-12-31T11:54:06.783-08:00<span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Good Afternoon, Billion Dollar Business Creators!<br /></span></b></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Are you feeling motivated this afternoon?<br /></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">I know that I certainly am!</span></b><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><br /></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style=";color:black;">I pray that you are having a blessed day and that 2012 will be your best year ever.<br /></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style=";color:black;">I want to work with five entrepreneurs to help them create billion-dollar businesses by January 2016. My previous program for doing this by January 2015 is now closed.<br /></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style=";color:black;">I will write about these experiences as a demonstration of the 400 Year Project (to show how to accelerate improvements by 20 times in all activities by 2015 . . . see www.fastforward400.com).<br /></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style=";color:black;">Based on over 30 years of research and practice in helping build huge businesses quickly, I have an improved method I want to share for how to create large businesses much more quickly.<br /></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style=";color:black;">If you are interested in being considered, contact me at askdonmitchell [at] yahoo [dot] com. I'll send you information about how to apply for this program. There is no cost to apply.</span></b></span></p><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style=";color:black;">Please let me know how I can help you.<br /></span></b></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style="color:black;">I will be glad to answer any questions you have.<br /></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style="color:black;">If this program isn't right for you, but you want to have a more successful business, please read my books <span style="font-style: italic;">The Ultimate Competitive Advantage </span>and <span style="font-style: italic;">The 2,000 Percent Squared Solution</span>. Also be on the lookout for my book <span style="font-style: italic;">Business Basics </span>that will come out in 2012.</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style="color:black;">Keep in mind that I also offer online training and coaching in building a successful new business based on Biblical principles. Eac</span></b></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style=";color:black;">h class includes a verse designed just to </span></b></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style=";color:black;">help center you on God's desires for you. </span></b></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style="color:black;">Just send me an e-mail and I'll provide details.<br /></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">May God bless you, your family, and all you do in the name of Jesus!<br /></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">With best regards, much appreciation, and all good wishes,<br /></span></b></span></p><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Donald W. Mitchell<br />Chairman<br />The Billionaire Entrepreneurs' Master Mind<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Copyright 2011 Donald W. Mitchell. All Rights Reserved.</span><br /></span></b></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20015576-9056589425343140038?l=billiondollarbusiness.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20015576.post-1635071735847229432011-09-03T09:20:00.000-07:002011-09-18T06:50:58.660-07:00<div class="post-body"><div><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Good Afternoon, Billion Dollar Business Creators!<br /></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Are you feeling motivated this afternoon?<br /></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">I know that I certainly am!</span></b><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><br /></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style=";color:black;" >I pray that you are having a blessed day and that this will be your best year ever.<br /></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style=";color:black;" >I want to work with five entrepreneurs to help them create billion-dollar businesses by January 2015. My previous program for doing this by January 2014 is now closed.<br /></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style=";color:black;" >I will write about these experiences as a demonstration of the 400 Year Project (to show how to accelerate improvements by 20 times in all activities by 2015 . . . see www.fastforward400.com).<br /></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style=";color:black;" >Based on over 30 years of research and practice in helping build huge businesses quickly, I have an improved method I want to share for how to create large businesses much more quickly.<br /></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style=";color:black;" >If you are interested in being considered, contact me at askdonmitchell [at] yahoo [dot] com. I'll send you information about how to apply for this program. There is no cost to apply.</span></b></span></p><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style=";color:black;" >Please let me know how I can help you.<br /></span></b></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style="color:black;">I will be glad to answer any questions you have.<br /></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style="color:black;">If this program isn't right for you, but you want to have a more successful business, please read my books <span style="font-style: italic;">The Ultimate Competitive Advantage </span>and <span style="font-style: italic;">The 2,000 Percent Squared Solution</span>. Also be on the lookout for my book <span style="font-style: italic;">Business Basics </span>that will come out in 2012.</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style="color:black;">Keep in mind that I also offer online training and coaching in building a successful new business based on Biblical principles. Eac</span></b></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style=";color:black;" >h class includes a verse designed just to </span></b></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style=";color:black;" >help center you on God's desires for you. </span></b></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style="color:black;">Just send me an e-mail and I'll provide details.<br /></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">May God bless you, your family, and all you do in the name of Jesus!<br /></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">With best regards, much appreciation, and all good wishes,<br /></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Donald W. Mitchell<br />Chairman<br />The Billionaire Entrepreneurs' Master Mind<br /><br />Copyright 2011 Donald W. Mitchell, All Rights Reserved</span></b></span><br /></p> <p class="blogger-labels"><br /><a rel="tag" href="http://billiondollarbusiness.blogspot.com/search/label/entrepreneur"></a></p> </div> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20015576-163507173584722943?l=billiondollarbusiness.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20015576.post-52554917134917775012011-02-25T11:46:00.000-08:002011-02-25T12:04:21.313-08:00<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id="ieooui"></object> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Good Afternoon, Billion Dollar Business Creators!<br /></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Are you feeling motivated this afternoon?<br /></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">I know that I certainly am!</span></b><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><br /></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style=";color:black;" >I pray that you are having a blessed day and that this will be your best year ever.<br /></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style=";color:black;" >I want to work with five entrepreneurs to help them create billion-dollar businesses by January 2014.<br /></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style=";color:black;" >I will write about these experiences as a demonstration of the 400 Year Project (to show how to accelerate improvements by 20 times in all activities by 2015).<br /></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style=";color:black;" >Based on over 30 years of research and practice, I have an improved method I want to share for how to create large businesses very quickly.<br /></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style=";color:black;" >If you are interested in being considered, contact me at askdonmitchell [at] yahoo [dot] com. I'll send you information about how to apply for this program.<br /></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style=";color:black;" >Please let me know how I can help you.<br /></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style=";color:black;" >I will be glad to answer any questions you have. </span></b><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><br /></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">May God bless you, your family, and all you do in the name of Jesus!<br /></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">With best regards, much appreciation, and all good wishes,<br /></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Donald W. Mitchell<br />Chairman<br />The Billionaire Entrepreneurs' Master Mind<br /><br />Copyright 2011 Donald W. Mitchell, All Rights Reserved</span></b></span><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20015576-5255491713491777501?l=billiondollarbusiness.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20015576.post-30317180490789572082010-09-06T12:09:00.000-07:002010-09-06T12:13:49.342-07:00This blog entry and the ones that follow it are excerpts<br />from Appendix B of my new book,<span style="font-style: italic;"> 2,000 Percent Living</span>.<br /><br />Indeed I have given him as a witness to the people,<br />A leader and commander for the people.<br />— Isaiah 55:4 (NKJV)<br /><br />Almost everyone wants to be a leader, some because of a<br />desire to make improvements. More often, however,<br />interest in being a leader is primarily rooted in a desire<br />for power, influence, and the trappings of leadership.<br />Unfortunately, none of these wellsprings of motivation is<br />adequate for routinely accomplishing breakthroughs.<br /><br />Some who are called to lead seek, instead, a better<br />motivation and approach through emulating our Lord,<br />Jesus Christ. His wonderful examples should always<br />inspire us; but even with the best of intentions our<br />pride, weaknesses, and failings often get in the way of<br />correctly following His example. Consider His service to<br />the disciples at the Last Supper: When was the last time<br />you saw a leader wash the feet of her or his subordinates<br />to encourage them to help their subordinates?<br /><br />Most leaders are more likely to expect subordinates to<br />perform humbling tasks to honor the leaders and to be<br />thankful for the privilege of merely being near such<br />“exalted” persons.<br /><br />For those who cannot humble themselves to be servant<br />leaders (leading by example in serving others), much<br />remains to be learned. God has many trials ahead to<br />improve those people so that they will choose to walk<br />in righteousness.<br /><br />In this breakthrough leadership blueprint, I share with<br />you a path that leads to becoming a Christlike leader by<br />both drawing on His fine examples and making the best<br />use of human nature to attract attention to what needs<br />to be done and to encourage taking the necessary<br />righteous decisions and actions.<br /><br />Copyright 2010 Donald W. Mitchell, All Rights Reserved.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20015576-3031718049078957208?l=billiondollarbusiness.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20015576.post-23925941246603121782010-09-06T11:49:00.000-07:002010-09-06T12:09:10.255-07:00Search me, O God, and know my heart;<br />Try me, and know my anxieties;<br />— Psalm 139:23 (NKJV)<br /><br />Jesus knew everything about His disciples, just as He<br />knows everything about you. Human leaders don’t have<br />the advantage of omniscience and usually make a<br />mistake when they believe that they know their<br />colleagues, bosses, and subordinates well or that they<br />don’t need to know them any better. Although human<br />leaders cannot know others as well as Jesus can, they<br />should still attempt to learn a lot more.<br /><br />Most people go to great lengths to protect parts of their<br />backgrounds, experiences, philosophies, and<br />observations from others in the organization where they<br />work or volunteer. Workers and volunteers play carefully<br />self-selected roles, much as comedians do in following<br />scripts of written stories and jokes, that people think will<br />serve their interests well.<br /><br />Mitchell and Company’s clients have made breakthroughs<br />much more often after we helped the leadership teams to<br />know and understand one another better. I’m sure this<br />observation sounds like a self-aggrandizing statement,<br />and I apologize if it seems that way. I don’t mean for the<br />observation to be taken by you as self-promotion: I<br />believe that virtually any ethical outsider could have<br />played the same helpful role, and I will be completely<br />sharing what we have done so you can repeat it.<br />Let me explain.<br /><br />If you go to a meeting or a party where most people don’t<br />know one another, the mingling and conversations will<br />mostly occur because of those who are gregarious and<br />those who happen to find others with similar interests,<br />whether of a superficial or a serious nature. Instead of<br />leaving it up to the guests to make the connections, the<br />meeting or party organizer could arrange for each guest<br />to receive a little advance information about the<br />background, interests, and expertise of each guest before<br />the party, and that information would lead to many more<br />people seeking each other out to converse about subjects<br />of mutual, significant interest.<br /><br />Similar to the well-organized meeting or party planner<br />who provides advance information about the guests, our<br />firm has been helping leadership teams to discover<br />important, mutual interests that weren’t previously<br />known among people who thought they already knew<br />one another well. Our method has focused on making it<br />safer and more desirable for leadership team members<br />to share their most secret thoughts and experiences<br />with one another. Here are the steps our firm has<br />followed to facilitate those discoveries and exchanges:<br /><br />• Following our recommendation, the organizational<br /> leader (often the CEO of the organization or unit)<br />agrees to let trustworthy outsiders interview each<br />person on the leadership team for an hour on a<br />confidential basis (meaning that nothing said in the<br />interview will be revealed for attribution without that<br />person’s permission) as preparation for a group<br />meeting to improve communications scheduled to occur<br />within a month (the shorter the delay between the<br />interviews and the group meeting, the better).<br />• In consultation with us, the organizational leader<br />decides who will be interviewed and who will attend<br />the group meeting (usually these are the same people).<br />• The organizational leader alerts the participants about<br />the group meeting and the confidential interviews,<br />describes the purpose of these activities, and relates<br />the ground rules.<br />• The organizational leader coordinates setting the dates<br />for the group meeting and the interviews.<br />• The organizational leader is interviewed first by<br />Mitchell and Company. The other people are interviewed<br />in the order of their availability unless the organizational<br />leader expresses a preference for a certain order. After<br />the standard interview ends, the organizational leader is<br />also asked to describe her or his views of each person’s<br />role in and contribution to the leadership team and the<br />organization.<br />• Each person is asked the same questions in the same<br />way during the standard interview. If an interviewee<br />raises an important subject not covered by the<br />standard interview, that subject is explored in whatever<br />depth the interviewee wants to share. In the ideal<br />circumstances there are two interviewers so that one<br />can focus more on asking questions and relating to the<br />interviewee while the other pays more attention to<br />taking notes. Avoid recording devices because they<br />inhibit interviewees. In each step of the interview,<br />clarifying questions are asked by both interviewers to<br />be sure that the interviewee is being correctly<br />understood. Here is the structure of each standard<br />interview:<br /><br />— Interviewers introduce themselves.<br />— Interviewers describe the project and repeat the<br />organizational leader’s instructions, including the<br />promise of confidentiality.<br />— Interviewers ask the interviewee<br /><br />□ to describe his or her background from birth<br />through reaching the current position.<br />□ to describe why she or he decided to work or<br />volunteer for this organization.<br />□ to describe the best day he or she had ever<br />experienced at work or in volunteering.<br />□ to describe the best day she or he had<br />experienced in his or her personal life aside from<br />work and volunteering.<br />□ to describe the organization’s and organizational<br />unit’s missions.<br />□ to describe the organization’s and the organizational<br />unit’s top three priorities.<br />□ to describe what that person has to do to<br />accomplish the mission and top three priorities.<br />□ to describe the organization’s and the organizational<br />unit’s biggest on-going problems that have<br />long been unresolved and why those problems<br />have been unresolved.<br />□ to describe the organization’s and the organizational<br />unit’s biggest missed opportunities that<br />have long eluded the organization and why the<br />opportunities have been missed.<br />□ how the leadership group could function more<br />effectively.<br />□ what else the organization should be doing to<br />become more successful and why it isn’t yet<br />doing what the interviewee recommends.<br />□ how and why he or she thought that other people<br />in the organization would answer any of the<br />questions differently than she or he did.<br /><br />— Interviewers repeat the ground rules about the<br />anonymity of responses and ask the interviewee<br />which responses might be identified by other<br />members of the management team if they were<br />not paraphrased or otherwise disguised. (In many<br />cases, interviewees then insist, without being asked, on<br />giving permission to quote them for attribution when<br />the point is an important one.) The interviewers also<br />indicate they will be back in touch if they have any<br />further questions after reviewing their notes.<br /><br />• Interviewers compare their notes and recollections to<br />create one set of detailed corrected notes that express<br />the consensus of what both interviewers heard. If the<br />interviewers cannot agree on a point, the interviewee<br />is contacted for clarification. The notes contain as many<br />quotes as possible.<br />• One of the interviewers combines the responses from<br />all interviewees into a tabulation that both interviewers<br />review to see what the major areas of leadership team<br />agreement, disagreement, understanding, and<br />misunderstanding are.<br />• The interviewers review the tabulation to isolate major<br />themes that should be the most valuable to focus on<br />during the group meeting. One major theme that will be<br />addressed is whether there is a hidden consensus among<br />the leadership team members about what needs to be<br />done and the reasons for improving.<br />• The interviewers review all of the quotes to find ones<br />to share with the group that best express the issues that<br />the group needs to resolve. Where necessary, these<br />answers are turned into paraphrases to help protect the<br />identity of the person who is the source and prefers to<br />remain anonymous.<br />• A written report is prepared by the two interviewers<br />and presented to the organizational leader in the manner<br />that the interviewers propose to use for the group<br />meeting. In addition, the interviewers discuss how the<br />responses and their impressions of the interviewees are<br />different from what the organizational leader had led<br />them to expect. Confidentiality is maintained in this<br />process; but if substantial issues about individuals have<br />unexpectedly arisen, those issues are presented as<br />things that the organizational leader needs to investigate<br />and potentially to resolve (such as the manufacturing<br />vice president who drank three pitchers of beer while<br />being interviewed during a brief lunch and the strategy<br />chief who responded to questions by staring blankly out<br />the window for ten minutes at a time in a way that<br />suggested being overmedicated with tranquilizers). The<br />organizational leader suggests changes to the report and<br />to the structure of the proposed meeting. The<br />interviewers recommend that the organizational chief say<br />as little as possible during the meeting to provide a better<br />opportunity to hear what others have to say in as<br />uninhibited a way as possible. Ideally, the organizational<br />leader should remain silent after making some opening<br />comments to encourage other members of the team to<br />share their thoughts and observations candidly with no<br />personal risk. Leaders are reminded how Jesus<br />remained silent when unjustly accused.<br />• The written report is distributed in advance of the<br />meeting whenever possible so that all attendees can<br />informally discuss its contents with one another before<br />the meeting if they wish.<br />• Meetings are scheduled away from the office and<br />include informal time together so that one-on-one<br />conversations can occur. One of the interviewers<br />facilitates and presents the findings at the meeting,<br />and both interviewers are present during the meeting<br />to answer any questions about the report or the<br />interviews.<br />• The facilitator encourages those attending to ask any<br />questions they want and to comment and elaborate on<br />any points that were made by any respondent in the<br />interviews or during the group meeting. These<br />discussions continue until everyone seems<br />comfortable that they understand the information.<br />• The facilitator describes the portrait of the leadership<br />team that emerged and comments on how that portrait<br />is the same as or different from other leadership teams<br />that have gone through the same process.<br />• After the report is presented and commented on, the<br />leadership team members are asked what they want to<br />do differently in response to what they have just heard.<br />The purpose of the question is to open the floor for<br />interviewees to lead the group in addressing issues that<br />concern each person.<br />• The facilitator’s role shifts into encouraging everyone<br />to participate and to share their previously unexpressed<br />issues and concerns. In addition, the facilitator seeks to<br />determine if there is a hidden consensus among the<br />leadership team members about what needs to be<br />improved and why. In performing this role, the<br />facilitator is employing the leader’s authority with<br />permission to elicit more participation and also trying to<br />serve as a role model for the organizational leader to use<br />in future meetings.<br />• The group meeting usually lasts at least one day and<br />often continues for a full three days, especially where<br />the organizational leader wants to start the process of<br />resolving issues that have been pending too long. During<br />a longer meeting, there may also be time to introduce<br />solution tools such as learning and applying the 2,000<br />percent solution process. The longer the meeting lasts,<br />the more likely individuals are to voluntarily claim<br />authorship of the quotations that were sourced from<br />them and to use such moments to open new lines of<br />discussion.<br />• Before the meeting ends, the facilitator encourages<br />the group to agree about what next steps are needed<br />to do better.<br />• As the meeting closes, the organizational leader praises<br />the leadership team for being candid and for working hard<br />to improve matters, to create mutual understanding, and<br />to enhance communications. The organizational leader<br />also pledges to do better in areas where the meeting has<br />indicated that improvements are needed and encourages<br />the leadership team to alert him or her whenever she or<br />he isn’t doing the right thing or enough of it.<br /><br />Copyright 2010 Donald W. Mitchell, All Rights Reserved.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20015576-2392594124660312178?l=billiondollarbusiness.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20015576.post-45228919635443377502010-09-06T11:39:00.000-07:002010-09-06T11:49:45.113-07:00And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib had come,<br />and that his purpose was to make war against Jerusalem,<br />he consulted with his leaders and commanders to stop<br />the water from the springs which were outside the city;<br />and they helped him. Thus many people gathered<br /> together who stopped all the springs and the brook that<br />ran through the land, saying, “Why should the kings of<br />Assyria come and find much water?”<br />— 2 Chronicles 32:2-4 (NKJV)<br /><br />The organizational leader will probably do some significant<br />soulsearching after the group meeting just described, be<br />concerned about how to deal with the many new issues<br />that have been raised, and feel inadequate to improve as<br />a leader in all the needed ways. It is rare that an<br />organizational leader doesn’t feel taken down a peg or two<br />in this process, and confidence can be shaken. Here is<br />where the interviewers can be helpful mentors and<br />encouragers of the organizational leader.<br /><br />The next step should begin about a week after the<br />group meeting when the interviewers sit down with the<br />organizational leader to discuss ways to accomplish what<br />needs to be done. Ideally, the interviewers have studied<br />in detail what occurred during the group meeting and<br />found what appear to be the simplest ways that the<br />organizational leader can accomplish her or his tasks and<br />for the leadership team to help the organization to make<br />a breakthrough.<br /><br />Occasionally such mentoring and encouragement<br />opportunities begin to occur during the interviews. Here’s<br />an example of what can happen: A person being<br />interviewed expressed frustration with the organizational<br />leader for not taking action to sell the interviewee’s<br />business, one that the interviewee had founded and sold<br />to the company many years earlier. The interviewer knew<br /> that the organizational leader wanted to sell the business<br />but believed that the interviewee was inalterably opposed.<br />The interviewer asked the interviewee if he had ever<br />shared this view about selling the business with the<br />organizational leader. The interviewee indicated that he<br />had frequently done so.<br /><br />Alerted that there might be a serious miscommunication<br />between the organizational leader and the interviewee,<br />the interviewer asked the interviewee if he would be<br />willing to speak to the organizational leader right then to<br /> share that view as a way of helping the interviewer to<br />understand how communications occur in the company.<br />The interviewee agreed, and the two strolled down to<br />the organizational leader’s office where the interviewee<br />shared the information. The organizational leader<br />handled it all well, gratefully thanked the interviewee<br />for his views, and promised to make a prompt decision.<br />Within a month, the organization announced that it<br />would be selling that business, even before the group<br />meeting occurred.<br /><br />Both men were delighted with what occurred, and both<br />were quite surprised that the unresolved issue was<br />handled so easily and painlessly. From this experience,<br />the organizational leader learned to check more often<br />and in more candid ways on the views of his leadership<br />team in one-on-one meetings. It turned out that<br />everyone in the leadership team had been so polite in<br />expressing views during prior group meetings that<br /> important messages had been lost.<br /><br />In most cases, the organizational leader learns that her<br />or his leadership style needs changing. Let’s consider<br />communications. The organizational team is not made up<br />of mind readers, and they often mistake what the<br />organizational leader’s intentions are. For instance, a<br />casual question from the organizational leader may be<br />interpreted as a desire to reverse a long-standing policy.<br />Much as Jesus had to explain his parables in private to<br />the disciples before He was understood, the<br />organizational team members need to be encouraged to<br />ask for clarification when they are confused about what<br />the organizational leader intends or sense a lack of<br />consistency.<br /><br />Another common problem is involving too many people<br />in too formal a way. Many people in the leadership team<br />aspire to become the organization’s overall leader. If the<br />organizational leader involves all of the members of the<br />leadership team when they don’t need to be, competing<br />career interests will lead to some seeking personal<br />aggrandizement rather than getting the task done. If,<br />instead, people know that they are being asked to work<br />on something because their help is essential to success,<br />they usually relax and focus on the task.<br /><br />While it’s good to develop members of the leadership<br />team to prepare them to become organizational leaders,<br />a better way to do so is to encourage them to instead<br />play advisory roles for organizational subunits that aren’t<br />part of the organizational leader’s authority or for<br />volunteer organizations. Jesus accomplished a similar<br />result in developing his leadership team by sending out<br />the disciples two-by-two to witness in different towns.<br /><br />The mentoring will probably require continuing contact<br />between the interviewers and the organizational leader.<br />Ideally, these conversations will occur before an issue<br />arises rather than focus on trying to fix mistakes that<br />have been heedlessly made. Brief telephone chats are<br />often enough to help the organizational leader become<br />more effective, but some face-to-face discussions will<br />also be necessary.<br /><br />The confidential one-on-one interview process will need<br />to be repeated from time to time with the leadership<br />team. Generally, it shouldn’t be needed again for at least<br />another six months. Normally, the interviews and group<br />meeting will need to be repeated at least once a year so<br />that the leadership team perceives that the<br />organizational leader is serious about creating more<br />breakthroughs and improving leadership effectiveness.<br />At some point, it will be helpful for this feedback process<br />to be internalized (typically through the human<br />resources staff) so that the external interviewers no<br />longer need to be involved. Whenever the organizational<br />leader finds a mentor or consultant who can be more<br />helpful than the interviewers, the organizational leader<br />should shift to working with that person.<br /><br />Copyright 2010 Donald W. Mitchell, All Rights Reserved.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20015576-4522891963544337750?l=billiondollarbusiness.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20015576.post-42236695545069126002010-09-06T11:28:00.000-07:002010-09-06T11:39:14.656-07:00“Again I say to you that if two of you agree on earth<br />concerning anything that they ask,<br />it will be done for them by My Father in heaven.”<br />— Matthew 18:19 (NKJV)<br /><br />In many organizations, the overall leader is the person<br />who knows the least about what the problems are, what<br />the potential solutions are, and how to implement the<br />best of those solutions. As a result, it’s easy for a leader<br />to direct the organization to focus on minutiae that<br />won’t make much difference while believing that a<br />breakthrough will follow.<br /><br />How can such potential misdirections be corrected?<br />Jesus taught His followers that faith and agreement<br />were essential to accomplishing mighty deeds that<br />would glorify God. By concentrating on God, the Lord<br />Jesus, the Holy Spirit, and the Scriptures, faith can be<br />increased so that magnificent changes occur as a result<br />of prayer and personal activity. By working closely<br />together, two or more people can learn to understand<br />what it was that they each sought and then make an<br />agreement to take to God in prayer and to act on.<br />Some human leaders can also rely on Christian faith to<br />develop agreement to accomplish breakthroughs<br />through prayer and action.<br /><br />Those who are fortunate to lead Christian organizations<br />are blessed by being able to follow His example in this<br />exact way. Most organizations, however, are secular<br />ones, and there has been no attempt to employ only<br />workers and volunteers who are born-again Christians.<br />What, then, can be done that draws on faith and<br />agreement in such a secular organization?<br /><br />The information gathered in Step One of this blueprint<br />provides many helpful perspectives, beginning with<br />identifying the hidden consensus (if it exists) and<br />extending through the agreement that was developed<br />at the end of the first group meeting. A Christian leader<br />will be wise to ask the faithful to pray that the agreement<br />will be accomplished. At this point, the organizational<br />leader should have two faithful sources to correct<br />misdirections: God and colleagues.<br /><br />Organizational leaders should think of their leadership<br />team’s hidden consensus as a sound foundation for<br />identifying opportunities for breakthroughs and<br />accomplishing them. Any breakthrough initiatives need<br />to be explicitly aligned with the hidden consensus.<br />With that alignment, those who need to take action will<br />have greater insight into what the purpose of action is<br />and will feel more interested and excited about<br />achieving the intended results.<br /><br />Let me give you an example of a hidden consensus to<br />help you appreciate what’s involved. A client company<br />was a major government contractor. During the<br />interviews, it became clear that engineering excellence<br />was an important value within the leadership team. In<br />addition, every member of the team described the<br />happiest day experienced at work as the same one:<br />when a difficult government project with humanitarian<br /> implications had succeeded and been hailed by their<br />peers in other companies.<br /><br />During the interviews, I asked each person if he had any<br />similar experiences since then involving other projects.<br />They all replied in the negative. During the group<br />meeting, I asked the leadership team members if they<br />would like to shift the type of work that they did for the<br />government so that they would do more work with<br />positive humanitarian implications that required<br />outstanding engineering. The excitement grew in the<br /> room, and commitment to that new direction was made.<br /><br />Decades later the organizational focus had almost totally<br />shifted into these different types of projects, and the<br />organization grew greatly from making this shift.<br />Astonishing benefits followed for all of the organization’s<br />stakeholders.<br /><br />One of the most notable breakthroughs came almost<br />exactly two decades after the group meeting: The<br />organization made another astonishing achievement in<br />an area closely related to the project area that had<br />originally epitomized the hidden consensus. Even<br />though this accomplishment came in an area that was<br />now a tiny part of the company, the new program had<br />received the very best the organization could provide.<br />Consequently, the results exceeded the government’s<br />expectations by several hundred times. What a great<br />breakthrough!<br /><br />Isn’t it wonderful what a hidden consensus can do when<br />it’s encouraged, strengthened, and expanded?<br /><br />The hidden consensus can be expanded beyond its<br />initial dimensions by redefining the organization’s<br />purpose to include aspects closely related to and<br />consistent with the hidden consensus. The<br />organization’s mission can also be reshaped to include<br />new activities that inspire and excite the management<br />team. Then, a strategy can be designed that will make<br />more resources available for the new purpose and<br />mission. If the organization has a strategy map, that,<br />too, can be redone to reflect what motivates the hearts<br />of the leadership team.<br /><br />Operating plans, in turn, will begin to reflect those new<br /> directions. The organizational leader should also<br />encourage believers to pray for the success of the new<br />directions and the expanded consensus. As the Lord<br />provides the prayed-for results, these successes can be<br />included in testimonies that will help attract the interest<br />of nonbelievers.<br /><br />Copyright 2010 Donald W. Mitchell, All Rights Reserved.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20015576-4223669554506912600?l=billiondollarbusiness.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20015576.post-85437892588862565722010-09-06T11:22:00.000-07:002010-09-06T11:28:27.867-07:00In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.<br />— Genesis 1:1 (NKJV)<br /><br />Jesus produced many miracles that helped establish<br />credibility for His Divine nature. For instance, He raised<br />the dead, fed thousands with just a little food, turned<br />water into wine, healed the sick, calmed storms, and<br />walked on water. His extraordinary works were helpful<br />evidence that God’s supernatural power exists and that<br />Jesus had access to that power, enabling sinners to<br />accept that they can receive Salvation and glorifying<br />God. If Jesus had, instead, merely done the ordinary<br />things that others do while making the same Godly<br />promises, many souls would not have been saved.<br /><br />Similarly, the organization that is employing His power<br />can also make many breakthroughs that will seem little<br />short of miraculous to those not involved in making the<br />accomplishments. That great potential to show His<br />greatness will, however, not be realized unless the<br />organizational leader directs and encourages such<br />results by first defining and setting credible<br />breakthrough goals.<br /><br />Providing such leadership requires courage: Many<br />people in the organization will not yet have enough faith<br />in God, in their knowledge of how to make<br />breakthroughs, and in their own abilities to believe<br />that the breakthroughs are possible. In the same way<br />that His disciples expressed lack of faith when facing<br />situations they had seen Jesus easily handle before, so,<br />too, the organizational leaders and those who work for<br />them often show insufficient faith and confidence.<br /><br />Here again, the organizational leader should follow<br />Jesus’ fine example by first demonstrating that many<br />breakthroughs can be quickly and easily accomplished<br />using the same time, money, and effort before advancing<br />an agenda filled with goals that require many such<br />breakthrough accomplishments. My experience has been<br />that it works best if organizational leaders take the time<br />to develop personal skills to make breakthroughs in<br /> cooperation with others in the organization, rather than<br />only serving as cheerleaders and encouragers for those<br />who have the breakthrough assignments.<br /><br />As a result, I recommend that all organizational leaders<br />develop knowledge of and experience in the 2,000<br />percent solution process before increasing awareness<br />and understanding of it in their organizations. This<br />learning sequence offers benefits in terms of enhanced<br />credibility, greater understanding of what needs to be<br />done, and more ability to take advantage of the desire to<br />emulate the overall leader that many in the organization<br />have.<br /><br />In most organizations, the best way to create a positive<br />impression will be to generate at least three<br />complementary 2,000 percent solutions that deliver<br />multiplied benefits (such as simultaneous 2,000 percent<br />solutions for growth, cost cutting, and reducing investment<br />intensity to expand cash flow benefits by 8,000 times<br />while applying no more time, money, and effort). After<br />such a success, any business leader in the organization<br />who aspires to become an overall organizational leader will<br />now see matching that accomplishment as a necessary<br />threshold task for personal and organizational<br />development. If the organizational leader also involves<br />the leadership team in accomplishing these tasks, the<br />results will have greater credibility and usefulness.<br /><br />Even after such a success, organizational leaders will be<br />wise to keep goals consistent with what their leadership<br />team believes is practical to do. Jesus had the same<br />problem of limited faith among His followers. Even after<br />feeding 5,000 men and many other people with a little<br />bread and a few fish, His followers didn’t think to ask<br />Him to repeat the miracle when 4,000 men were<br />hungry. People are creatures of habit and will fall back<br />on their older ways of doing things until breakthrough<br />methods become the only way they think about<br />performing important tasks.<br /><br />Copyright 2010 Donald W. Mitchell, All Rights Reserved.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20015576-8543789258886256572?l=billiondollarbusiness.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20015576.post-6059490597476318702010-09-06T11:12:00.000-07:002010-09-06T11:21:54.186-07:00And he made devices in Jerusalem,<br />invented by skillful men,<br />to be on the towers and the corners,<br />to shoot arrows and large stones.<br />So his fame spread far and wide,<br />for he was marvelously helped<br />till he became strong.<br />2 Chronicles 26:15 (NKJV)<br /><br />Jesus knew that He would be walking on the Earth with<br />His disciples for just a few years before He would die on<br />the cross, be resurrected, and return to heaven. While<br />on Earth, His purposes were to teach His disciples about<br />the kingdom of God and His commands, and how to<br />follow His example and commands. In the Bible, the<br />books of Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and the first part<br />of Acts can be read, in part, as an organizational leader’s<br />training manual for creating lasting improvements in<br />performance for God. We should particularly<br />remember that Jesus arranged for the Holy Spirit to<br />descend upon believers to continually guide them after<br />He was no longer present in the flesh. Fortunately, we<br />still have that wonderful Guide today.<br /><br />Jesus didn’t direct His followers to seek miracles in all<br />areas of life. Neither should organizations seek to make<br />breakthroughs in all aspects of what they do:<br />Breakthrough focus should be reserved for what is most<br />important to accomplish in serving stakeholders in ways<br />that glorify God. The leadership team will be more<br />engaged in breakthroughs if it has a clear understanding<br />of what breakthroughs are needed. The organizational<br />leader’s goals can be a help here by identifying the most<br />important accomplishment areas, even if the initial goals<br />are much more modest than the full potential to achieve.<br /><br />A great way to begin helping the leadership team become<br />more effective is to direct and encourage each one on the<br />team to develop a 2,000 percent solution in an important<br />area by working with other members of the organization.<br />The organizational leader should make the assignments<br />and set the necessary review and due dates so that<br />developing the breakthroughs becomes a timely, high-<br />priority activity. If everyone on the organizational team<br />is working on breakthroughs at the same time, there can<br />be a friendly sense of camaraderie as they share their<br />experiences and lessons with one another.<br /><br />Based on his or her experience with creating 2,000<br />percent solutions, the organizational leader can also<br />make resources available to ease the tasks. Here are<br />some possible resources to provide:<br /><br />• Customized versions of The 2,000 Percent Solution,<br />The Portable 2,000 Percent Solution, The 2,000<br />Percent Solution Workbook, The 2,000 Percent<br />Squared Solution, The Irresistible Growth Enterprise,<br />The Ultimate Competitive Advantage, Adventures of<br />an Optimist, and 2,000 Percent Living that are filled<br />with examples drawn from the organization’s and<br />similar organizations’ experiences.<br />• Translated, customized versions of The 2,000 Percent<br />Solution, The Portable 2,000 Percent Solution, The<br />2,000 Percent Solution Workbook, The 2,000 Percent<br />Squared Solution, The Irresistible Growth Enterprise,<br />The Ultimate Competitive Advantage, Adventures of an<br />Optimist, and 2,000 Percent Living filled with examples<br />drawn from the organization’s and similar organizations’<br />experiences.<br />• Customized training programs filled with<br />organizational and similar organizations’ experiences.<br />• Experienced 2,000 percent solution tutors to monitor<br />and advise the leadership team and those who work<br />with them on developing and implementing 2,000<br />percent solutions.<br />• Fully developed histories of each of the organization’s<br />successful efforts to create 2,000 percent solutions.<br />• Access to experts whose knowledge of future best<br />practices and ideal best practices will ease the work<br />involved in steps three (Identify the Future Best<br />Practice) and five (Identify the Ideal Best Practice) of<br />the 2,000 percent solution process.<br />• Software designed to make it easier to do the work of<br />identifying and eliminating stalls and performing the<br />eight-step 2,000 percent solution process.<br /><br />In any case, faster and better 2,000 percent solution<br />progress will occur if the organizational leader personally<br />provides some of the most important and difficult<br />instruction involved in learning the process. No one will<br />want to miss those sessions. The organizational leader<br />can also help improve interest in and knowledge of the<br />process by regularly reviewing and carefully<br />commenting on the progress to date.<br /><br />Once a member of the leadership team succeeds in<br />leading a breakthrough development, the organizational<br />leader should arrange for recognition for all those who<br />contributed to the effort and publicize the success<br />internally and externally. Such recognition is very<br />important in helping the leadership team to become<br />more fully committed to making breakthroughs.<br />Recognition will also help inspire those who work for the<br />organizational leader to want to learn and to develop<br />their skills in making breakthroughs.<br /><br />All those who create a breakthrough should then be asked<br />to study whether there are other ways and places that the<br />organization and its stakeholders can benefit directly from<br />what has just been accomplished. Next, the breakthrough<br />team should be asked to recommend related<br />breakthroughs that should be developed and who should<br />be involved in those tasks.<br /><br />After an organizational leadership team member has been<br />involved in at least three breakthroughs, the leader should<br />be asked to begin teaching more people in her or his group<br />how to make breakthroughs.<br /><br />Copyright 2010 Donald W. Mitchell, All Rights Reserved.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20015576-605949059747631870?l=billiondollarbusiness.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20015576.post-64920152501548434372010-09-06T11:03:00.000-07:002010-09-06T11:11:42.945-07:00You will know them by their fruits.<br />Do men gather grapes from thornbushes<br />or figs from thistles?<br />Even so, every good tree bears good fruit,<br />but a bad tree bears bad fruit.<br />A good tree cannot bear bad fruit,<br />nor can a bad tree bear good fruit.<br />— Matthew 7:16-18 (NKJV)<br /><br />As praiseworthy and fruitful for God as it is for an<br />organization to make breakthroughs in all of its most<br />important activities, imagine how much more can be<br />accomplished in fulfilling God’s purposes when<br />stakeholders (such as customers, customers’ customers,<br />end users, beneficiaries, partners, employees,<br />employees’ families, distributors, suppliers, and the<br />communities served) also make breakthroughs in their<br />most important Godly activities, both personal and<br />professional.<br /><br />Some leaders may fear to assist in encouraging the<br />use of such powerful knowledge, even in a holy purpose,<br />being concerned that stakeholders will then be able, and<br />feel encouraged, to harmfully oppose the organization’s<br />best interests. Leaders who experience effective<br />opposition from stakeholders should instead realize that<br />they are learning an important lesson: They have set a<br />course in opposition to the best interests and concerns of<br />stakeholders. When that happens, leaders violate the<br />Golden Rule. Harmony follows from selecting a mutually<br />beneficial course that is blessed by God and acting<br />consistently with that intent, as a dependable, devoted<br />servant of those stakeholders.<br /><br />When all stakeholders appreciate how anyone’s Godly<br />success is a cause for rejoicing by all others, there can be<br />no higher organizational goal than to enhance the ability<br />of the stakeholders to make their own righteous<br />breakthroughs. Here are some of the benefits that can<br />accrue to the organization in addition to pleasing God:<br /><br />• Customers: greater benefits from purchasing the<br />organization’s offerings and more resources to make<br />purchases<br />• Customers’ customers: greater benefits from<br />purchasing the customers’ and the organization’s<br />offerings and more resources to make purchases<br />• End users: greater benefits from using the<br />customers’ customers’, customers’, and organization’s<br />offerings and more resources to use those offerings<br />• Beneficiaries: greater benefits from using the<br />customers’ customers’, customers’, and organization’s<br />offerings and more capabilities to make good use of<br />those offerings<br />• Partners: greater benefits from working with the<br />organization and a greater ability to add value to both<br />the organization and to its many stakeholders<br />• Employees: greater benefits from working for the<br />organization and a greater ability to add value to the<br />organization and all of its stakeholders<br />• Employees’ families: greater benefits from being<br />related to the employee and a greater ability to live<br />happily and in peace with the employee<br />• Distributors: greater availability of the organization’s<br />offerings and better support for those who obtain the<br />organization’s resources and offerings from the<br />distributors<br />• Suppliers: greater profits from selling to the<br />organization and in serving other of the suppliers’<br />customers<br />• Communities served: greater health, happiness,<br />peace, and prosperity while living in closer cooperation<br />with other people<br /><br />An organization that has mastered creating righteous<br />breakthroughs is in a good position to make learning<br />how to make similar breakthroughs much easier for its<br />stakeholders. Many of its experiences and resources and<br />much of its knowledge can be directly helpful to<br />stakeholders. In addition, many experiences and<br />resources and much of its knowledge can be adapted to<br />be helpful to stakeholders.<br /><br />How should the organization begin to lead stakeholders<br />toward their own righteous breakthroughs? There is<br />probably no single answer that is right for all<br />organizations. Organizations with effective leaders may,<br />in fact, be able to engage in outreach efforts to several<br />stakeholder groups at the same time.<br /><br />In considering what to do first, I especially encourage<br />organizational leaders to keep in mind the obvious<br />advantages of making its employees and their families<br />early focuses. These stakeholders are more vulnerable<br />to having their Godly interests not be considered and<br />honored enough. In some organizations today, employee<br />workloads effectively keep families apart too much,<br />leading to much pain and sorrow. When employees are<br />more fruitful, they don’t need to work as many hours<br />and can usually arrange more flexible schedules.<br /><br />Employees are then able to spend more time with their<br />families and pay more attention to being considerate of<br />family members. Some employees also work with many<br />of the organization’s stakeholders. Once employees have<br />developed skill and experience in 2,000 percent<br />solutions, they can be a large and tremendous resource<br />for assisting other stakeholders to do the same.<br /><br />Employees’ families can use righteous breakthroughs<br />that they create to solve their own problems and those<br />of their friends and neighbors. When that happens,<br />employees enjoy benefits from such improvements. In<br />some cases, family members will also make righteous<br />breakthroughs in ways to help the employee live a more<br />fulfilled life with the family. When that happens, the<br />organization is likely to attract and retain employees<br />who will be more effective and have greater potential to<br />create even more righteous breakthroughs.<br /><br />Copyright 2010 Donald W. Mitchell, All Rights Reserved.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20015576-6492015250154843437?l=billiondollarbusiness.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20015576.post-30086860657136262912010-09-06T10:42:00.000-07:002010-09-06T10:55:32.401-07:00Then Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam<br />and the leaders of Judah, who were gathered together<br />in Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said to them,<br />“Thus says the LORD: ‘You have forsaken Me, and<br />therefore I also have left you in the hand of Shishak.’”<br />So the leaders of Israel and the king humbled<br />themselves; and they said, “The LORD is righteous.”<br />Now when the LORD saw that they humbled<br />themselves, the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah,<br />saying, “They have humbled themselves; therefore<br />I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some<br />deliverance. My wrath shall not be poured out on<br />Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.<br />— 2 Chronicles 12:5-7 (NKJV)<br /><br />As 2 Chronicles 12:5-7 demonstrates, in addition to<br />focusing on making breakthroughs, leaders also set the<br />organizational tone, either for faith or unbelief, either<br />for righteousness or sin, and either for humility or pride.<br />Without care, some leaders whose organizations and<br />stakeholders gain benefits from many righteous<br />breakthroughs may believe that they are the source of<br />the fruitfulness, rather than God. Consider also this<br />complementary observation: The more righteous<br />breakthroughs that occur under a leader, the greater<br />the hand that God has played in those achievements<br />through supernatural intervention and guidance from<br />the Holy Spirit.<br /><br />God is not going to bless an organization and its<br />stakeholders with the fullest dimensions of<br />breakthrough solutions if the leader is unbelieving,<br />unrighteous, or prideful. Consider the experience of<br />the Hebrews as they approached the Promised Land<br />knowing that they were destined to possess it with<br />God’s help:<br /><br />And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,<br />“Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am<br />giving to the children of Israel; from each tribe of their<br />fathers you shall send a man, every one a leader among<br />them.” (Numbers 13:1-2, NKJV)<br /><br />When ten of the twelve leaders reported that the land<br />was desirable but that its occupants were terrifying<br />enemies, the people revolted and refused to enter<br />Canaan. After Moses intervened with God about their<br />unbelief, God sentenced the unbelievers to spend forty<br />years in the desert until all were dead before the<br />Hebrews would be allowed to enter the Promised Land.<br />Only Joshua and Caleb, the two believing and faithful<br />leaders who enthusiastically advised immediate entry<br />into Canaan, were permitted to go there before they<br />died.<br /><br />As you can see from this example, organizations and<br />their stakeholders are very easily influenced by the<br />example, good or bad, of the organizational leader.<br />Such leaders need to be sure that they both behave<br />righteously and also are seen to be behaving<br />righteously. Here are some examples of righteous<br />leadership that many organizational leaders would do<br />well to consider and apply:<br /><br />• Exemplify having a pure heart towards serving the<br />Lord.<br />• Praise God for His bounty in blessing the<br />organization and its stakeholders during ceremonies<br />of thanksgiving.<br />• Disclose sins and mistakes that the organizational<br />leader has made, publicly repent of those errors, and<br />ask forgiveness from God, the organization, and its<br />stakeholders.<br />• Ask people in and out of the organization to suggest<br />ways that the organizational leader can substantially<br />improve in personal and professional righteousness.<br />• Show faith by directing activities that are clearly<br />intended to make righteously fruitful breakthroughs.<br />• Teach classes for employees concerning how to<br />behave in more righteous ways.<br />• Establish organizational processes to make it easier<br />for employees to find out when they have either not<br />acted righteously or appear not to have done so.<br />• Seek advice from stakeholders on how the organization<br />can be more righteous.<br />• Encourage stakeholders to behave more righteously by<br />sharing the organization’s values and praising<br />stakeholders when they behave righteously.<br />• Select and promote the interests of stakeholders in<br />part based on the purity of their hearts in serving the<br />Lord.<br />• Seek comments from the organization’s most severe<br />critics on how to improve in righteous performance<br />and seriously investigate what can be done to make<br />needed changes.<br />• Avoid influencing legislation and regulation in ways that<br />will be harmful to any stakeholders.<br />• Try to reconcile with stakeholders when disputes arise<br />rather than using scorched-earth legal tactics.<br />• Show contrition and concern, and speed help to those<br />the organization has harmed.<br />• Be responsible in doing the righteous thing even at<br />times when no one will ever know the difference.<br /><br />Copyright Donald W. Mitchell 2010, All Rights Reserved.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20015576-3008686065713626291?l=billiondollarbusiness.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20015576.post-34117693326078328092010-08-03T12:34:00.001-07:002010-08-09T18:08:48.570-07:00<span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Good Afternoon, Billion Dollar Business Creators!<br /><br />Are you feeling motivated this afternoon?<br /><br />I know that I certainly am!</span></span><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:78%;">I pray that you are having a blessed day and that this will be your best year ever.<br /><br />After having worked with thousands of entrepreneurs who have started businesses in the last 35 years, I recently felt called to write a book about how to do so in a more effective and satisfying way. What most people try to do is all wrong, and it's a shame to have so many people struggle so unnecessarily.<br /><br />Every hour that you spend on this course will save you 50 hours of work later on and over $1,000. So it's your choice whether to spend the time and money on the course or to spend the time and money on making avoidable mistakes later.<br /><br />Here are some of the subjects you will cover with me:<br /><br />1. Free up lots of time to work on your new business while you keep your day job.<br />2. Attract customers 20 times faster and more easily that your competitors do.<br />3. Use 96 percent less investment money to permit faster growth and higher profitability.<br />4. Which technical details about starting a new business are important for you to handle and which ones you should ask someone else to do for you.<br />5. Avoid making costly mistakes because of what you don't know that you don't know.<br />6. How to test your ideas inexpensively without putting yourself at risk.<br />7. The best sources of free information that can make you more successful.<br />8. The habits you need to develop to be most successful.<br />9. How to attract top talent at little cost.<br />10. How to keep your new business from consuming all your time and attention<br /><br />I will begin writing the book in October and and hope to complete it before the end of Spring 2011.<br /><br />It occurred to me that some people might appreciate having an opportunity to access these lessons early, to ask questions about how to use the information, and to get a head start on anyone else who intends to the the knowledge in the same ways.<br /><br />The book's readers will benefit by my listening carefully to questions and addressing those key concerns more clearly in the book.<br /><br />So it's an opportunity for everyone to benefit.<br /><br />After thinking and praying about this calling over the last few weeks, I decided to offer a 52-week online course that will feature a weekly teaching and telephone conversation. I can conveniently accommodate up to 100 people on a telephone call and still offer an opportunity to ask questions and to get answers. So I decided to limit the group to that number.<br /><br />We will begin on October 1 with the teleconferences but those who join the course before then will begin receiving lessons right away so they will have more time to work on these tasks.<br /><br />As the book passes through editing, people who are taking the course will receive advanced copies.<br /><br />I'm assuming that most people can obtain Skype or some other Voice-Over-Internet-Protocol telephone service so it won't be too expensive to call into the United States to join the conference calls. All lessons will be on the calls, so if you don't want to call in this won't be a good opportunity for you.<br /><br />The fee for this course is $500 (United States Dollars) payable in advance. Normally I charge $20 a session for such courses, but I wanted to provide a good value so I reduced the price by more than half for you.<br /><br />To join the group, simply send me your name, your e-mail address, your telephone number, and your payment to:<br /><br />Donald W. Mitchell<br />P.O. Box 302<br />Weston, MA 02493<br />United States of America<br /><br />If you would prefer to pay by check debit or credit card online, send me an e-mail to askdonmitchell@yahoo.com and I will tell you how you can pay through those methods by using PayPal.com/.<br /><br />If you would prefer to receive only written materials, I can instead offer individual subscriptions and online access for questions and answers to the advanced work of The Billionaire Entrepreneurs' Master Mind that address how to create large enterprises quickly and with few resources. If this opportunity interests you, please let me know and I will provide the details. People who want this option may start the course as soon as they register.<br /><br />Please let me know how I can help you.<br /><br />I will be glad to answer any questions you have.<br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-size:78%;" ><br />May God bless you, your family, and all you do in the name of Jesus!<br /><br />With best regards, much appreciation, and all good wishes,<br /><br />Donald W. Mitchell<br />Chairman<br />The Billionaire Entrepreneurs' Master Mind<br /><br />Copyright 2010 Donald W. Mitchell, All Rights Reserved<br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20015576-3411769332607832809?l=billiondollarbusiness.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20015576.post-40227252721169526652010-02-08T13:23:00.000-08:002010-02-08T13:26:28.926-08:00<span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Good Afternoon, Billion Dollar Business Creators!</span></span></span></span><br /><div class="post-body"><div><div class="post-body"><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br />Are you feeling motivated this afternoon?<br /><br />I know that I am!</span></span></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">I have exciting news for you about The 400 Year Project </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">(the program designed to accelerate the rate of world-</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">wide improvements by 20 times).<br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">As I described in <span style="font-style: italic;">Adventures of an Optimist</span> (BookSurge,</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">2007), one of the important aspects of implementing the</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">project will be to prepare one million tutors who can </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">assist organizations and individuals around the world </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">to make the exponential breakthroughs that I have been</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">writing about since 1995. </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br />To facilitate that implementation step, I have begun</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">writing a new book, <span style="font-style: italic;">Help Wanted</span>, that describes the</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">kinds of tutors needed and what they should be working</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">on. My plan is to publish that book and make it widely</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">available before the end of 2010.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br />Tutors are needed to work on the following opportunities:</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br />-witnessing</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />-congregational ministries</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />-Christian non-profit organizations</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />-universities and colleges</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />-teachers and their unions</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />-voluntary associations for children</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />-foundations</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />-social-benefit-focused enterprises</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />-nations</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />-for-profit enterprises</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />-productivity-enhancement professionals</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />-lifting entrepreneurial effectiveness</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br />While some individuals may wish to engage in this work</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> on their own, I anticipate that many organizations</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> will wish to sponsor an aspect of The 400 Year Project</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">to show their commitment to enhancing spiritual and</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">social improvement while gaining competitive advantages</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> over those who prefer to stick with traditional methods.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br />Beginning now, I am willing to accept sponsors and to</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> help them apply the project's most advanced knowledge</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> to their opportunities. Part of such sponsorships will</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> be to prepare tutors skilled in particular applications</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> of creating 2,000 percent (and higher order) solutions</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> with the same time, effort, and resources.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">I welcome all inquiries and will be glad to answer any</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> questions you have. Please feel free to share this</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> message with anyone you wish.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-size: 100%;">May God bless you, your family, and all you do in the name of Jesus!<br /><br />With best regards, much appreciation, and all good wishes,<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Donald W. Mitchell<br />Chairman<br />The 400 Year Project<br /><br />Copyright 2010 Donald W. Mitchell</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><p class="blogger-labels"><br /></p> </div> </div> </div> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20015576-4022725272116952665?l=billiondollarbusiness.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20015576.post-43620399499723705752008-01-01T17:14:00.000-08:002008-01-01T17:16:30.953-08:00<span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:130%;" ><b><span style="">Good evening, Billion Dollar Business Creators!</span></b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:130%;" ><br /></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Are you feeling motivated this evening?</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">I hope so. I know that I am!<br /><br />I also hope that 2008 will be your best year so far.<br /><br /></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I thought you might enjoy learning about what I've been slaving over for the last six months.<br /><br />As you know, I've been working on the 400 Year Project (demonstrating ways to make global improvements at 20 times the usual rate) since 1995. Along the way, I've helped write six books that details progress on the project (<span style="font-style: italic;">The 2,000 Percent Solution, The 2,000 Percent Solution Workbook, The 2,000 Percent Squared Solution, The Portable 2,000 Percent Solution, The Irresistible Growth Enterprise, </span>and <span style="font-style: italic;">The Ultimate Competitive Advantage</span>).<br /><br />The thinking behind the project has, however, moved much faster than publishing of books has permitted. As a result, I realized early in 2007 that I could see the end of the project.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">I decided to share that vision of a world improving on all of its performance areas (big and small, individual and collective). I've put that vision in my new book, </span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Adventures of an Optimist: A Progress Report on the 400 Year Project to Help You Improve 20 Times Faster. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></span></span>Last year, I held a contest to find a foreword for the book. Ms. Teresa Bolen was the winner of the contest. Here is what she had to say about the book:</span></span></span></span></span><span class="plogBodyText"><br /><p style="text-align: left;" align="left"> </p><p style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold;" align="left">"What would you do if God gave you knowledge for making the world a much better place? Not your everyday, ordinary, run of the mill knowledge, but knowledge that would allow you and your team to create solutions that would otherwise not be available to the people of Earth for another 400 years. </p> <p style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold;" align="left">"Though he’s far too humble a servant of God to say so himself, I believe that is exactly what happened to my mentor and friend Don when he was gifted with the inspiration to create the 400 Year Project – a project to create 400 hundred years worth of improvements in merely 20 years. You read that right: four centuries worth of improvements in only two short decades.</p><p style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold;" align="left"> </p><p style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold;" align="left">"The kinds of global improvement methods he writes about have the potential to provide nutritious food, clean water, excellent healthcare and safety to everyone on the planet. These improvement methods have the potential to bring peace to every region of the globe. On a more personal level, these methods have the potential to dramatically increase longevity, perhaps even to more than double one’s lifespan. Don’s methods offer the potential to improve the quality of life, personal relationships, finances, and education, and to present a myriad of new opportunities for you and everyone around you. If you’re not already familiar with Don’s other works such as <i>The 2,000 Percent Solution</i>, <i>The 2,000 Percent Squared Solution</i>, <i>The Irresistible Growth Enterprise</i>, and <i>The Ultimate Competitive Advantage</i>, then this may sound like a fairytale. However if you are already a follower of Don’s work, then you’ll immediately recognize the potential of his 400 Year Project to bring that Divine inspiration into physical reality, ushering in improvements on a global scale, limited only by the imaginations of those who are putting these teachings into practice. In a world where many find themselves lost in the doom and gloom of contemplating a future dominated by disease, disaster, crime, war, and suffering, Don’s optimistic vision is not merely a shining path of hope, but a template for how to recreate our world into something so blessed and wonderful that everyone experiencing it would become optimists.</p><p style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold;" align="left"> </p><p style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold;" align="left">"In <i>Adventures of an Optimist</i>, Don takes you on a personal journey of how he came to be such a practical optimist and why he has so much faith in all of us. He gives a crash course on his world-renowned 2,000 percent solutions, i.e. <span>any way that you can accomplish 20 times as much with the same time and resources, </span>and gives convincing evidence on how that kind of incredible progress — though seemingly enormous at first blush — is merely a baby step for each of us. Don shows us again and again that we can gain infinitely more by learning how to make breakthroughs in areas with the most potential to benefit ourselves and everyone else.</p><p style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold;" align="left"> </p><p style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold;" align="left">"One of the great things about Don’s writing is how he demonstrates the ways he and his students have repeatedly succeeded with these improvement methods. He also shares the flops, lest we begin to feel that we are reading the optimistic musings of an intellectual superman!</p><p style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold;" align="left"> </p><p style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold;" align="left">"Don’s masterful use of metaphors and riveting storytelling ability draw you in to experiencing those moments with Don almost as if you were there in person while it was happening. One of my favorite examples is when he describes becoming one of Amazon.com’s top ten reviewers. Like so many people, I had wondered how in the world he accomplished it, especially in addition to his busy life as CEO of Mitchell and Company, helping world-class business professionals create better and better business solutions; professor at Rushmore University, guiding students to create their own 2,000 percent solutions; and writing numerous finely crafted books. You get to imagine what it was like in Amazon’s earlier days when most people were using dial-up modems, see how Don’s thinking interacted with the growth of the internet and of Amazon, and find out how he realized he could reach more people through Amazon reviews than even the most famous authors of business books do.</p><p style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold;" align="left"> </p><p style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold;" align="left">"Once the reader is comfortably grounded into imagining the possibilities of 2,000 percent solutions, Don eases you into multiplying those exponential improvements. He expands the vision more and more, and you’ll either come out on the other side with your mind wide open for the very real possibilities that the 400 Year Project offers, or you’ll already be taking action to start making those breakthroughs in those areas with the most potential to benefit yourself and others.</p><p style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold;" align="left"> </p><p style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold;" align="left">"As you read the book and begin to fully grasp the promise of the 400 Year Project, creating 400 hundred years worth of improvements in only 20 years, you’ll ask yourself, “What role do I want to play?” If you’ve ever wanted to make the world an infinitely better place, if you’ve been looking for an opportunity to make a difference so profound that you joyfully leap out of bed each day to create that difference, then this book may just be the introduction to the means you’ve been seeking. Get ready to open your heart, open your mind, and let the possibility of a future brighter than all your wildest dreams be revealed to you."</p> <p style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold;" align="left">Teresa Bolen</p> <p style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold;" align="left">Author, <i>Master Plan to Master Exams: How to Discover Your Hidden Abilities to Create the Success You Desire</i></p> <p style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold;" align="left">Kyoto, September 15, 2007</p><p style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-family:times new roman;" align="left"><span style="font-size:180%;">Here is the table of contents so you can get a sense of what the book covers:</span></p><p style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold;" align="left"> </p> <p style="font-weight: bold;"><i><span></span></i></p><p style="font-weight: bold;"><i><span>Foreword </span></i></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;"><i><span>Acknowledgments </span></i></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;"><i><span>Background Briefing: What Can Four Centuries Worth of Improvements in a Generation Mean for Your Life? </span></i></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;"><i><span>Preface: A Singular Sensation </span></i></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;"><i><span>Introduction: Seeds of an Optimistic Idea, the 400 Year Project</span></i><span></span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;"><span>Part One:<span> </span>ORIGINS</span><span> </span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;"><span>Chapter 1:<span> </span>How I Became a Practical, Unlimited Optimist</span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;"><span>Chapter 2: <span> </span>A Surprise Announcement </span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;"><span>Part Two:<span> </span>LESSONS</span><span> </span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;"><span>Chapter 3:<span> </span>Crawling and Toddling Ahead</span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;"><span>Chapter 4:<span> </span>Introducing 2,000 Percent Solutions</span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;"><span>Chapter 5:<span> </span>Irresistible Growth Beckons</span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;"><span>Chapter 6:<span> </span>Reaching Millions of Readers</span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;"><span>Chapter 7:<span> </span>Competitive Advantages</span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;"><span>Chapter 8:<span> </span>Tutoring Lessons</span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;"><span>Chapter 9:<span> </span>A Complementary Dimension: Getting More Out of Life</span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;"><span>Chapter 10:<span> </span>Multiplying Exponential Improvements</span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;"><span>Chapter 11:<span> </span>Making 400 Years Worth of Progress Quickly by Further Multiplying Exponential Improvements</span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;"><span>Chapter 12: Saving More Souls</span><span> </span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;"><span>Part Three:<span> </span>PRESCRIPTIONS</span><span> </span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;"><span>Chapter 13:<span> </span>A Learning Foundation for Rapid Progress</span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;"><span>Chapter 14:<span> </span>Entrepreneurial Models for Rapid Progress </span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;"><i><span>Epilogue: Your Role in the 400 Year Project</span></i></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;"><i><span>Appendix A: Become a Helpful Book Reviewer</span></i></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;"><i><span>Appendix B: Why Are 2,000 Percent Solutions Available for Almost Any Activity?</span></i></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;"><i><span>Appendix C: How to Have Your Own Optimistic Adventures</span></i></p></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> If you would like to get a brief look, Amazon.com has an excerpt that you can download for 49 cents at </span></span></span></span></span><span class="plogBodyText"><br /><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">http://www.amazon.com/Adventures-of-an-Optimist/dp/B000RO9UWI/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1199235182&amp;sr=1-1<br /></span><br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> If you would like to purchase a paperback copy, Amazon.com has new copies available for $18.99 at<br /><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">http://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Optimist-Progress-Project-Improve/dp/1419684981/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1199235182&amp;sr=1-2<br /></span></span></span></span></span><span class="plogBodyText"><br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> If you want to learn more about the 400 Year Project, register for free to read about this work at http://www.fastforward400.com/.<br /><br /></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">May God bless you.</span><br /><br /><b>Donald W. Mitchell<br />Chairman, Mitchell and Company<br /></b><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Copyright 2008 Donald W. Mitchell</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20015576-4362039949972370575?l=billiondollarbusiness.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20015576.post-17060649648174539972007-08-09T08:57:00.000-07:002007-08-14T17:04:18.538-07:00<b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Good morning, Billion Dollar Business Creators!</span><br /><br /><strong style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Are you feeling motivated this morning?<br /><br /></strong><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">I certainly hope so. I know that I am!</span><br /><br /></span></b><b><span style="color:black;">I have been getting a lot of inquiries lately from entrepreneurs who would like me to help them build a billion dollar business. A number of these entrepreneurs have asked me if I would provide individual coaching to them.<br /><br />I wanted to share with you the answer I have been giving: I am willing to do a little individual coaching for entrepreneurs.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">For those of you who I will not be able to work with directly, let me describe a few lessons that will help you.</span><br /><br />What does it take to create a billion dollar business from scratch? Here are a few key lessons that I find most people don't follow.<br /><br />1. Based on my research with those who have succeeded, you can expect to have to make at least 75 business model changes from where you start. Most entrepreneurs don't realize that and slow down their business model changes too soon. As a result, I favor working with entrepreneurs to make frequent business model improvements that expand their growth and profit potential.<br /><br />2. In most cases, your enterprise will need to develop a multibillion dollar market that doesn't yet exist. You'll need to focus on both growing your market and your enterprise.<br /><br />3. You can accelerate your progress by many years through introducing the right 2,000 percent solutions as you improve your business model. The most advantageous 2,000 percent solutions to develop are (a) market-expanding ones, (b) cost-reducing ones, and (c) asset-reducing ones. You can get ideas to help you from <span style="font-style: italic;">The 2,000 Percent Squared Solution </span>(Mitchell and Company Press, 2007) and <span style="font-style: italic;">The Ultimate Competitive Advantage </span>(Berrett-Koehler, 2003). <span style="font-style: italic;">The 2,000 Percent Solution Workbook </span>(iUniverse, 2005) will help you organize your work on each 2,000 percent solution.<br /><br />4. Reducing your cost of capital will greatly expand your choices. I suggest that you fully develop ways to encourage customers to provide your capital needs . . . in exchange for valuable advantages that customers want.<br /><br />5. Getting most of your good ideas from within your organization will keep you from reaching your full potential. Instead, find ways to locate over 90 percent of your best ideas from outside of your organization while continuing to get as many good ideas as possible from within your company.<br /></span></b><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">As you know, I've been developing briefing documents for a year-and-a-half for The Billionaire Entrepreneurs' Master Mind. To date, I've produced 76 briefings to help entrepreneurs build their billion dollar businesses.<br /><br />Because I cannot coach all of the people who would like me to help them, I've decided to start offering subscriptions to these briefings. If this is of interest, please contact me by sending an e-mail to askdonmitchell@yahoo.com/. </span><br /><br /></span></b><span style=""><span style="font-weight: bold;">May God bless you.</span><br /><br /><b>Donald W. Mitchell<br />Chairman, Mitchell and Company<br /></b><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Copyright 2007 Donald W. Mitchell</span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20015576-1706064964817453997?l=billiondollarbusiness.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20015576.post-59737912513763386342007-05-25T08:43:00.000-07:002007-05-25T08:52:02.484-07:00<b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Good morning, Billion Dollar Business Creators!<br /><br /><strong>Are you feeling motivated this morning?<br /><br /></strong>I certainly hope so. I know that I am!<br /></span></b><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"></span></b><b><span style="color:black;"><br />Ken Rayment interviewed me yesterday about how small and medium sized American manufacturers can become much more successful.<br /><br />I pointed out that most such manufacturers are focused on soaring costs, pressure from customers not to raise prices, and sagging volume as domestic customers lose market share to imports. But those are merely symptoms of weak business models and ineffective cost management methods.<br /><br />If you would like to hear the podcast, here's the link:<br /><br /></span></b><span style="font-size:12;"></span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.podcasternews.com/programs/87/better-process-podcast/4108/"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;" id="lw_1180106798_0">http://www.podcasternews.com/programs/87/better-process-podcast/4108/</span></a><br /><br /><span style="">Thanks so much for your support of this blog.<br />I'm delighted that so many tens of thousands<br />of people have made this blog part of their<br />regular reading habit!<br /><br /><b>If you like this blog, please let others<br />know who might also enjoy it. E-mailing<br />your favorite post to them is a great idea.<br /><br /></b>Thank you to my many friends, students,<br />clients and blog readers who are spreading the<br />good word about this blog.<br /><br />If you are visiting today because someone<br />invited you, I'm delighted to meet you! Let's<br />stay in touch.<br /><br /><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Remember to also visit<br /><br />Live Spiritually Better than a Billionaire at http://livespirituallybetterthanabillionaire.blogspot.com/,</span></b></span><o:p></o:p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Enjoy Mansions Better than a Billionaire at http://enjoymansionsbetterthanabillionaire.blogspot.com/,<br /><br />Enjoy Football Better than a Billionaire at http://enjoyfootballbetterthanabillionaire.blogspot.com/ and<br /><br />Be a World Hero Better than a Billionaire at http://beaworldherobetterthanabillionaire.blogspot.com/.<br /><br /></span></b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">I offer<b> individual on-line tutorials and<br />in-person seminars</b> on creating 2,000<br />percent solutions (20 times the results with<br />the same effort), developing more profitable<br />business models and designing strategies that<br />work regardless of the business environment. <b><br />For information, contact me at<br />ultimatecompetitiveadvantage@yahoo.com.</b><br /><br />I am available to you as a speaker on these<br />subjects. You can find my background at http://livebetterthanabillionaireon5dollars.blogspot.com/2005_08_30_livebetterthanabillionaireon5dollars_archive.html/.<br /></span><span style=""><br />May God bless you.<br /><br /><b>Donald W. Mitchell<br />Chairman, Mitchell and Company<br /></b><br />Copyright 2007 Donald W. Mitchell</span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20015576-5973791251376338634?l=billiondollarbusiness.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20015576.post-55667964104787223572007-05-02T07:36:00.000-07:002007-05-04T08:18:28.785-07:00<div class="post-body"><p> </p><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Good morning, Billion Dollar Business Creators!</span></span></b></span> <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-size:130%;" ><br /></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Are you feeling motivated this morning?<br /><br />I hope so. I know that I am!</span></span></span><br /><span class="plogBodyText"><span><i><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The 2,000 Squared Percent Solution</span></span></i><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> is now available on Amazon.com.<br /><br />Carol Coles and I are delighted to share this breakthrough book with you!<br /><br />You'll learn how to increase revenues (for companies) and effectiveness (for nonprofits) by 20 times while reducing the cost of delivering your offerings and benefits by 96 percent. These two 2,000 percent solutions are the equivalent of creating 20 normal 2,000 percent solutions. You'll see profits and effectiveness soar by 400 times.<br /><br />Fifty-seven outstanding people have endorsed this book already, more than endorsed all of our earlier books combined.<br /><br />Here's what a few of them had to say:<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">"A 400 times increase in results! Is that an outrageous claim? Not if you know how. It's all about leverage - finding the point where small incremental efforts create enormous returns. Coles and Mitchell provide the insights, examples and experience to help you find those leverage points - a compelling read."<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">David P. Norton - Author, <span style="font-style: italic;">The Balanced Scorecard<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">"<span style="font-style: italic;">The 2,000 Percent Squared Solution</span> is a brillinat distillation of essential management principles that everyone, and I mean <span style="font-style: italic;">everyone</span>, canuse to drive dramatic acceleration of performance. It's packed with great stories that make the principles easy to understand, embrace, and apply. Whether you're a leader in a big, small, for-profit or not-for-profit organization, you need this book."<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Rosabeth Moss Kanter - Harvard Business School, best-selling author of <span style="font-style: italic;">Confidence: How Winning Streaks & Losing Streaks Begin and End<br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">"</span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-style: italic;">The 2,000 Percent Squared Solution </span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">combines audacity and practicality into a one-of-a-kind guide for improving performance."<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></span></span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Daniel H. Pink - Author of <span style="font-style: italic;">A Whole New Mind<br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">"If you want greater profits and more efficiency, read this book. I found many breakthrough concepts for growing and streamlining all of our companies in this book. It made me aware of a lot of things we were not addressing and we are now."<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Jack Canfield - Co-author of <span style="font-style: italic;">The Success Principles</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="plogbodytext"><b><i><span style="">™</span></i></b></span><span class="plogBodyText"><span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">, and Co-creator, <span style="font-style: italic;">Chicken Soup for the Entrepreneur's Soul</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="plogbodytext"><b><i><span style="">®</span></i></b></span><span class="plogBodyText"><span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /><br />We hope you'll take the time to examine this volume.<br /><br />Here's the link for Amazon.com:<br /><br />http://www.amazon.com<br /><br />Once there, use the isbn ( 0615142761 ) or this name exactly: <span style="font-style: italic;">The 2,000 Percent Squared Solution. </span>If you leave out the comma in 2,000, you probably won't be able to find the book.<br /><br />In addition, Amazon.com will be offering a preview beginning in May. You can buy a digital version of Chapter One for only 49 cents through the Amazon Shorts program. Check it out!<br /><br />Details of the book have also been sent to Amazon.com and should appear on the book's page in the next week or so.<br /><br />You can also buy the book or a digital version at Lulu.com:<br /><br />http://www.lulu.com/content/727157<br /><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Remember to also visit<br /><br />Live Spiritually Better than a Billionaire at http://livespirituallybetterthanabillionaire.blogspot.com/,<br /></span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> <span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Enjoy Mansions Better than a Billionaire at http://enjoymansionsbetterthanabillionaire.blogspot.com/,<br /><br />Enjoy Football Better than a Billionaire at http://enjoyfootballbetterthanabillionaire.blogspot.com/ and<br /><br />Be a World Hero Better than a Billionaire at http://beaworldherobetterthanabillionaire.blogspot.com/.<br /><br /></span></b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">I offer<b> individual on-line tutorials and in-person seminars</b> on creating 2,000 percent solutions (20 times the results with the same effort), developing more profitable business models and designing strategies that work regardless of the business environment. <b><br /></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><b>For information, contact me at<br />ultimatecompetitiveadvantage@yahoo.com .</b><br /><br />I am available to you as a speaker on these subjects. You can find my background at http://livebetterthanabillionaireon5dollars.blogspot.com/2005_08_30_livebetterthanabillionaireon5dollars_archive.html/.<br /></span><br />May God bless you.<br /><br /><b>Donald W. Mitchell<br />Chairman, Mitchell and Company<br /></b><br />Copyright 2007 Donald W. Mitchell</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20015576-5566796410478722357?l=billiondollarbusiness.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20015576.post-45230311528022994822007-04-30T08:30:00.000-07:002007-04-30T08:31:55.506-07:00<p> </p> <span style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 130%;"><b><span style=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Good morning, Billion Dollar Business Creators!</span></span></b></span> <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-size: 130%;"><br /></span><br /> <span style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Are you feeling motivated this morning?<br /><br />I hope so. I know that I am!</span></span></span><br /><span class="plogBodyText"><span><i><br /><span style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Portable 2,000 Percent Solution</span></span></i><span style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> is now available on Amazon.com. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">This book is a condensation and updating of our 1999 (and 2003 reprint) book, </span><i style="font-weight: bold;">The 2,000 Percent Solution</i><span style="font-weight: bold;">.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Carol Coles and I are looking forward to reading reviews on Amazon.com written by the many excellent Amazon.com reviewers and comments in blogs by Amazon.com customers who received copies of the uncorrected galleys. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">You are able to post reviews now. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">If you decide to look the book up, be sure to put a comma into 2,000 when you search or you won't find </span><i style="font-weight: bold;">The Portable 2,000 Percent Solution</i><span style="font-weight: bold;">. You can also search by the ISBN which is </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">1419663364 .</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Here's the link:</span><br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="plogBodyText"><span></span><span></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">http://www.amazon.com/Portable-000-Percent-Solution/dp/1419663364/ref=sr_1_3/102-8591504-8645760?ie=UTF8&s=books&amp;qid=1177945797&sr=1-3</span><br /></span><span class="plogBodyText"><span><span style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: 130%;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Remember to also visit<br /><br />Live Spiritually Better than a Billionaire at http://livespirituallybetterthanabillionaire.blogspot.com/,<br /></span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> <span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Enjoy Mansions Better than a Billionaire at http://enjoymansionsbetterthanabillionaire.blogspot.com/,<br /><br />Enjoy Football Better than a Billionaire at http://enjoyfootballbetterthanabillionaire.blogspot.com/ and<br /><br />Be a World Hero Better than a Billionaire at http://beaworldherobetterthanabillionaire.blogspot.com/.<br /><br /></span></b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">I offer<b> individual on-line tutorials and in-person seminars</b> on creating 2,000 percent solutions (20 times the results with the same effort), developing more profitable business models and designing strategies that work regardless of the business environment. <b><br /></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><b>For information, contact me at<br />ultimatecompetitiveadvantage@yahoo.com .</b><br /><br />I am available to you as a speaker on these subjects. You can find my background at http://livebetterthanabillionaireon5dollars.blogspot.com/2005_08_30_livebetterthanabillionaireon5dollars_archive.html/.<br /></span><br />May God bless you.<br /><br /><b>Donald W. Mitchell<br />Chairman, Mitchell and Company<br /></b><br />Copyright 2007 Donald W. Mitchell</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20015576-4523031152802299482?l=billiondollarbusiness.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20015576.post-29941783734247750882007-04-28T11:53:00.000-07:002007-05-02T12:00:39.551-07:00<b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Good morning, Billion Dollar Business Creators!<br /><br /><strong>Are you feeling motivated this morning?<br /><br /></strong>I certainly hope so. I know that I am!<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Many people have been fascinated by the relatively new book, <span style="font-style: italic;">Wikinomics</span>. Realizing that you may be planning to use some of these concepts to create your billion dollar business, I thought you might like to see my recent review of the book:<br /></span></span></b><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"></span></b><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Four Stars<br /><br /></span><b>Helpful Summary of Early On-Line Mass Collaborations</b> <table> <tbody><tr><td valign="top"><br /></td><td> <br /></td></tr></tbody> </table> Think of this book more as reporting of where the world was in 2005 than analysis and direction for the future. But Wikinomics is a helpful resource to have, for most people are unaware of the extent to which self-organization through mass communication is being developed. Some of the successes are spectacular like the Goldcorp contest to locate more gold (which I described in The<span style="font-style: italic;"> Ultimate Competitive Advantage</span> in 2003) and Procter & Gamble's astonishing efforts to acquire technology from outside the organization (which I describe in <span style="font-style: italic;">The 2,000 Percent Squared Solution</span>).<br /><br />The strength of the book is that several different aspects of on-line mass collaborations are developed including:<br /><br />1. Open collaborations to produce collective results not owned by anyone including Wikipedia and Linux.<br /><br />2. Accessing more expert knowledge through idea markets (such as Goldcorp and P&G have done).<br /><br />3. Customers being able to participate in detailed customization past what the vendor facilitates (basically a blurring of company-customer boundaries).<br /><br />4. Knowledge transfer among the scientific community.<br /><br />5. Methods of opening access to partners, especially for complementary software development.<br /><br />6. Global production methods.<br /><br />7. New ways of facilitating work in combination with those outside the organization.<br /><br />If you are like me, you'll learn about some examples that you didn't before and find yourself feeling better informed.<br /><br />The book has two annoying qualities that you should be aware of. First, the authors are very generous with each other in giving credit for ideas generated in the nondigital world by others. Second, there is a gushiness about the potential that isn't nuanced enough to reflect the problems that need to be solved. As a result, the inexperienced reader will get a sense that each opportunity is equally easy to grasp. That's clearly not true. In addition, the psychology of where which approaches will and won't work are mostly alluded to rather than developed. Building mass collaboration around enlightened self-interest is quite different from doing so built around more purely altruistic purposes.<br /><br />I suspect the book would have worked better if the authors had written a series of books that developed each perspective further. Certainly, the global contest concept for for-profit enterprises is a proven area that almost anyone can do. That topic deserved more emphasis and explanation. Instead, you get a newspaper-level discussion of the topic.<br /><br />I have not read a better book on this subject (but there may well be one I've missed) and I suspect<span style="font-style: italic;"> Wikinomics</span> will be one of the standards in on-line mass collaborations.<br /><br /><span style=""><b>If you like this blog, please let others<br />know who might also enjoy it. E-mailing<br />your favorite post to them is a great idea.<br /><br /></b>Thank you to my many friends, students,<br />clients and blog readers who are spreading the<br />good word about this blog.<br /><br />If you are visiting today because someone<br />invited you, I'm delighted to meet you! Let's<br />stay in touch.<br /><br /><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Remember to also visit<br /><br />Live Spiritually Better than a Billionaire at http://livespirituallybetterthanabillionaire.blogspot.com/,</span></b></span><o:p></o:p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Enjoy Mansions Better than a Billionaire at http://enjoymansionsbetterthanabillionaire.blogspot.com/,<br /><br />Enjoy Football Better than a Billionaire at http://enjoyfootballbetterthanabillionaire.blogspot.com/ and<br /><br />Be a World Hero Better than a Billionaire at http://beaworldherobetterthanabillionaire.blogspot.com/.<br /><br /></span></b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">I offer<b> individual on-line tutorials and<br />in-person seminars</b> on creating 2,000<br />percent solutions (20 times the results with<br />the same effort), developing more profitable<br />business models and designing strategies that<br />work regardless of the business environment. <b><br />For information, contact me at<br />ultimatecompetitiveadvantage@yahoo.com.</b><br /><br />I am available to you as a speaker on these<br />subjects. You can find my background at http://livebetterthanabillionaireon5dollars.blogspot.com/2005_08_30_livebetterthanabillionaireon5dollars_archive.html/.<br /></span><span style=""><br />May God bless you.<br /><br /><b>Donald W. Mitchell<br />Chairman, Mitchell and Company<br /></b><br />Copyright 2007 Donald W. Mitchell</span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20015576-2994178373424775088?l=billiondollarbusiness.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20015576.post-52797849020109177622007-03-14T18:30:00.000-07:002007-03-14T18:47:12.421-07:00<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-size:130%;" >Good morning, Billion Dollar Business Creators!<br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Are you feeling motivated this morning? </strong><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><br /><br />I certainly hope so. I know that I am!<br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Carol Coles and I have been thinking about how entrepreneurs can build successful businesses faster than ever since the early 1970s. In that time, we've had the pleasure of consulting for many of the past record-holders in reaching a billion dollars in revenues in the least amount of time.<br /><br />In that role, we've often had the pleasure of meeting founders who took the time to help us understand what they saw that no one else did at the time: The chance to create a great business very rapidly.<br /><br />We've pored over business school texts, articles in reputable business journals and reviews, and speeches by leading professors. There's almost no match with what the most successful entrepreneurs do.<br /><br />Where will you find the answers?<br /><br />Since early last year, we've been deepening our understanding of the subject by working with top entrepreneurs around the globe who intend to create the next generation of billion dollar businesses faster than ever. Why not create something more valuable than Google in a third of the time?<br /><br />Beginning in June, I will be taking on one entrepreneur who would like to have daily coaching on creating a billion-dollar business at a record-setting pace.<br /><br />Would you like to be that person?<br /><br />If so, please introduce yourself to me via askdonmitchell@yahoo.com and we'll get acquainted.<br /><br />Who knows where that can lead?<br /></span></span></span></span> <p><span style="font-size:130%;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Please let me know what else you would like to<br />learn, and I'll do my best to help in future blog<br />entries.<br /><br />Thanks so much for your support of this blog.<br />I'm delighted that so many tens of thousands<br />of people have made this blog part of their<br />regular reading habit!<br /><br /><b>If you like this blog, please let others<br />know who might also enjoy it. E-mailing<br />your favorite post to them is a great idea.<br /><br /></b>Thank you to my many friends, students,<br />clients and blog readers who are spreading the<br />good word about this blog.<br /><br />If you are visiting today because someone<br />invited you, I'm delighted to meet you! Let's<br />stay in touch.<br /><br /><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Remember to also visit<br /><br />Live Spiritually Better than a Billionaire at http://livespirituallybetterthanabillionaire.blogspot.com/,<br /></span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> <span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"></span></b></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"></span></b></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Enjoy Mansions Better than a Billionaire at http://enjoymansionsbetterthanabillionaire.blogspot.com/,<br /><br />Enjoy Football Better than a Billionaire at http://enjoyfootballbetterthanabillionaire.blogspot.com/ and<br /><br />Be a World Hero Better than a Billionaire at http://beaworldherobetterthanabillionaire.blogspot.com/.<br /><br /></span></b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">I am available to you as a speaker on these<br />subjects. You can find my background at http://livebetterthanabillionaireon5dollars.blogspot.com/2005_08_30_livebetterthanabillionaireon5dollars_archive.html/.<br /></span><br />May God bless you.<br /><br /><b>Donald W. Mitchell<br />Chairman, Mitchell and Company<br /></b><br />Copyright <span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;" id="lw_1167319706_0">2007 Donald W. Mitchell</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20015576-5279784902010917762?l=billiondollarbusiness.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20015576.post-1153159170094505872006-07-17T10:42:00.000-07:002006-07-22T12:28:26.156-07:00<span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Good morning, Billion Dollar Business Creators!<br /><br /><strong>Are you feeling motivated this morning?</strong><br /><br />I certainly hope so. I know that I am!<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The Billionaire Entrepreneurs' Master Mind will complete its first six months at the end of July. Progress has been excellent. Members have been making steady improvements in their current and proposed business models, adding new stakeholder benefits and testing out new marketing programs. The vision of the members has expanded in many helpful ways to steer their enterprises to larger size faster. Members have already found ways to save themselves tens of millions in costs in defining better ways to grow.<br /><br />I have had a ball working with our many global members.<br /><br />With this excellent foundation in place, I'm interested in working with a second cohort who want to form a master mind. If you are interested, please let me know and I'll help you evaluate the group.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Contact me at ultimatecompetitiveadvantage@yahoo.com and label your subject as "I'm Interested in Joining the Second Cohort for The Billionaire Entrepreneurs' Master Mind".</span> Please send a little background about your business experience and what kind of a business you want to develop.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Here are the key benefits:<br /><br />1. Twice a year detailed evaluations of your business model and plans conducted by me.<br /><br />2. Weekly coaching by me in writing that provides you with an integrated process for overcoming your mental hurdles, creating a faster growing market, gaining market share and expanding your profit margin by 20 times. This is the same process successful organizations have used in the past to create billion dollar enterprises rapidly.<br /><br />3. Twice a month global conference calls to hold live master mind reviews of current entrepreneurial efforts.<br /><br />4. Shared information resources about other sources of knowledge that fit each member's entrepreneurial needs.<br /><br />Many entrepreneurial coaches charge as much as $5,000 for a single session of such a group. Because we apply our own process, we can deliver greater results for you at a fraction of that cost.<br /><br /></span></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">If you have questions, please let me know.</span> You may call me at 781-647-4211 in the United States between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. EDT on Tuesdays and Thursdays for a five minute chat. If you wish to speak longer, please send me an e-mail first to request an appointment.</span><br /></span> </span></span></span></span><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >With best regards, much appreciation and all good wishes,<br /><br />Don<br /><br />Copyright 2006 Donald W. Mitchell</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"> </span></span></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20015576-115315917009450587?l=billiondollarbusiness.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20015576.post-1147296267254068592006-05-11T07:19:00.000-07:002006-05-10T14:24:27.583-07:00<span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold; font-size: 130%;">Good morning, Billion Dollar Business Creators!<br /><br /><strong>Are you feeling motivated this morning?</strong><br /><br />I certainly hope so. I know that I am!<br /><br />Well, time has run out for you to join The Billionaire Entrepreneurs' Master Mind. I'm sorry. It would have been fun to include you.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">If you are still interested in creating a billion dollar business or a billion dollar NGO to serve those who need help, Mitchell and Company continues to offer its consulting services in these areas. You may reach me at my direct line number of 781-647-4211 to discuss those services.</span><br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 130%;">With best regards, much appreciation and all good wishes,<br /><br />Don<br /><br />Copyright 2006 Donald W. Mitchell</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20015576-114729626725406859?l=billiondollarbusiness.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20015576.post-1146694544514095632006-05-03T15:15:00.000-07:002006-05-03T15:15:44.686-07:00<span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Good morning, Billion Dollar Business Creators!<br /><br /><strong>Are you feeling motivated this morning?</strong><br /><br />I certainly hope so. I know that I am!<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I have a special place in my heart for procrastinators.<br /><br />Most procrastinators mean well. They just don't get around to doing things when they need to.<br /><br />Thousands of procrastinating entrepreneurs could now be 14 weeks into creating billion dollar enterprises . . . but they dithered instead.<br /><br />Like all good procrastinators, they love a challenge.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">If you think you can do 18 weeks of work in the next 3 weeks, you can still join <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The Billionaire Entrepreneurs' Master Mind.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">To make it easier, I'll help you.</span> </span> But you have to spend an hour a day with me on the telephone . . . 6 days a week (we'll both rest on Sunday).<br /><br />I can provide this boot camp opportunity for three people only. After that, I'm out of time.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">You have one last week left to take action. After that, you've missed the boat! Sorry!!!<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">If you have questions, please let me know. You can call me at 781-647-4211 in the United States between 8 a.m. and 7 p.m. EDT through May 9, 2006.</span><br /></span> </span></span></span></span><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >With best regards, much appreciation and all good wishes,<br /><br />Don<br /><br />Copyright 2006 Donald W. Mitchell</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20015576-114669454451409563?l=billiondollarbusiness.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20015576.post-1144720769107384242006-04-11T06:45:00.000-07:002006-05-10T14:26:28.240-07:00<span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Good morning, Billion Dollar Business Creators!<br /><br /><strong>Are you feeling motivated this morning?</strong><br /><br />I certainly hope so. I know that I am!<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Part of my desire for establishing The Billionaire Entrepreneurs' Master Mind was to help entrepreneurs be more successful.<br /><br />I've decided to offer a series of free teleconferences for that purpose. I hope you'll join me.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Call me on Wednesday, May 17, 2006</span>, for the next one.<br /><br />I'll answer any questions then about becoming a successful entrepreneur that are posed to me for one hour.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">The call begins at 5 p.m. EDT (2 p.m. PDT). Dial 712-580-7706 in the United States. Once you get through, hit 2 to avoid the instructions. Use the passcode 16474211# then to enter the call.<br /><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Feel free to forward this post to your friends who want to enjoy major entrepreneurial success. They will find most of the answers to their questions in this blog.<br /><br /></span>With best regards, much appreciation and all good wishes,<br /><br />Don<br /><br />Copyright 2006 Donald W. Mitchell</span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"></span></b></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20015576-114472076910738424?l=billiondollarbusiness.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20015576.post-1144507204945291462006-04-08T07:25:00.000-07:002006-04-08T08:09:05.036-07:00<span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Good morning, Billion Dollar Business Creators!<br /><br /><strong>Are you feeling motivated this morning?</strong><br /><br />I certainly hope so. I know that I am!</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><br /></span></b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The Billionaire Entrepreneurs' Master Mind</span></span><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:130%;"> has been operating for two months now. As a potential member of the group, you're probably wondering what you missed.<br /><br />Every week, members receive a briefing to work on that helps them shape their billion dollar enterprise.<br /><br />I thought you might find it interesting to see one.<br /><br />I also hope you'll take the time to work on the assignments. They could make life-changing improvements for you and millions of others.</span><br /><br /></span></span></b> ***************************************************<b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"></span></b> <p style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:180%;"><b style="">The <o:p></o:p></b></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:180%;"><b style="">Billionaire<o:p></o:p></b></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:180%;"><b style="">Entrepreneurs’<o:p></o:p></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><b style=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-size:180%;" >Master Mind</span><o:p></o:p></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><b style=""><o:p> </o:p></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;"><b style="">Week Nine Briefing:<o:p></o:p></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;"><b style=""><o:p> </o:p></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;"><b style=""><span style="color:green;">Your Legacy<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style=""> </span>Welcome back to The Billionaire Entrepreneurs’ Master Mind! We are glad to have you as a member and to share this ninth briefing with you.<br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">You will be receiving a total of 50 briefing documents in your first year of membership. You will probably enhance your benefits from this membership if you make it a practice to read these briefings within a week of receiving them. You will probably gain even more benefits if you review the lastest briefing for five minutes before retiring at night. While you sleep, your subconscious will develop wonderful new solutions for you.</span><br /></p><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-size:130%;">We will also be holding discussions of these same subjects twice a month, and you will gain more from the discussions if you have already been thinking about the subject. Briefings are designed to help you start your investigation of your best opportunities to create a billion-dollar enterprise.</span> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Introduction<br /><br /></span><font>I selected this week's briefing topic after teaching a local course in entrepreneurship last night. We were talking about setting objectives from the perspective of having already succeeded. The entrepreneurs in the room were asked to pick the five goals that they could have chosen now that would have most likely led to the success that they had already gained $400 million as one of my most successful clients had done through a similar form of entrepreneurship).</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><br /><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> <o:p></o:p><span style=""> </span>The second goal they wanted to set for themselves was to have a positive effect on their community as a result of their entrepreneurship. Obviously, they wanted to accomplish something more than making money.<o:p></o:p><br /><br />From this goal, I recalled goal setting exercises that I had done with Tony Robbins and Jack Canfield that had a large impact on my thinking. The two exercises were somewhat similar. You basically were seeing yourself as Scrooge did during <i style="">A Christmas Carol </i>as the third ghost showed Scrooge the future where Tiny Tim would be dead along with Scrooge, and no one would mourn Scrooge.<br /><br />It occurred to me that you may not have done such an exercise. It’s wonderful for helping you focus on your legacy. But you may have. So I designed my own version of the exercise for the master mind. I hope you like it.<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p> <span style=""> </span><br /><br />Here are questions you should consider in terms of your entrepreneurial goals. As you answer these questions, feel free to seek spiritual guidance, discuss your feelings with family and friends, and read current materials about past titans of business who were important over 100 years ago:<o:p></o:p><b style=""><u><span style="color:green;"><br /><br />What Will People Say about You at Your Funeral?</span></u></b><o:p></o:p><span style=""> </span><br /><br />A good place to begin is to imagine who will attend. Why will they have decided to come that day? While they are waiting for the ceremony to begin, what will they say when they mention you?<o:p></o:p><span style="color:green;"><span style=""> </span><b style=""><br /><br />Action Step: <span style=""> </span>Write the elegy for your funeral as you would like it to be given by the person you would like to play that role.</b></span><b style=""><span style="color:green;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b><b style=""><u><span style="color:green;"><br /><br />What Will Be Said about Your Billion Dollar </span></u></b><st1:city><st1:place><b style=""><u><span style="color:green;">Enterprise</span></u></b></st1:place></st1:city><b style=""><u><span style="color:green;"> on the Day after You Die?</span></u><o:p></o:p></b><span style=""> </span><br /><br />Since you’ve been very successful in establishing such a large organization, the subject will undoubtedly come up. Obviously, you will be recognized for that accomplishment. But what will be said of the importance of the enterprise itself?<o:p></o:p><b style=""><span style=""> </span><span style="color:green;"><br /><br />Action Step: Write a news story about the significance of your billion dollar enterprise as it might be written in a section of your obituary in your home town newspaper.</span><span style="color:green;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><b style=""><u><span style="color:green;"><br /><br />One Hundred Years after You Die, What Difference Will Your </span></u></b><st1:city><st1:place><b style=""><u><span style="color:green;">Enterprise</span></u></b></st1:place></st1:city><b style=""><u><span style="color:green;"> Have Made?</span><o:p></o:p></u></b><span style=""> </span><br /><br />It’s now the centennial of your death. A news story is being written to describe the influence that your enterprise has had, both good and bad. What will be said then?<o:p></o:p><b style=""><span style=""><br /><br /></span><span style="color:green;">Action Step: <span style=""> </span>Write that news story as it might appear in various publications that you respect.</span><span style="color:green;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b><br /><br /><b style=""><u><span style="color:green;">What Will Your Relatives Say about Hear the Significance of What You Accomplished during Your Family’s Annual Reunion 100 Years from Now?</span><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></o:p></u></b><span style=""><br /><br /></span>Most family reunions inevitably bring up the subject of those who have passed on, commenting on what made them memorable. 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class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20015576-114450720494529146?l=billiondollarbusiness.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20015576.post-1144101844004245222006-04-03T02:44:00.000-07:002006-04-03T15:04:04.396-07:00<b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Good morning, Billion Dollar Business Creators!<br /><br /><strong>Are you feeling motivated this morning?</strong><br /><br />I certainly hope so. I know that I am!<br /></span></b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The Billionaire Entrepreneurs' Master Mind</span></span><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> has been operating for two months now. As a potential member of the group, you're probably wondering what you missed.<br /><br />The group is off to a much faster start than any other master mind I have been involved with. Within two weeks, this group had made more progress than a master mind that I joined through Jack Canfield has accomplished over seven months.<br /><br />Most members have submitted their initial business models and plans to me for evaluation. In each case, those reviews picked up major flaws in direction that would probably have prevented the business from developing into billion dollar potential. Members were happy to get this feedback before spending millions of dollars and years of effort to go off in the wrong direction. Many of the members report that these initial observations will save their companies tens of millions in the future. <br /><br />In our weekly briefings, members have been reviewing their operations also from several new perspectives that they had not considered before. Most of these new points of view have added vast new markets that can be served by focusing on them sooner.<br /><br />Members report getting lots of good ideas from the twice-monthly global teleconferences where members discuss how they are applying the briefings. In those sessions, we also share ideas to help people over the hump where they cannot see very many ways to apply these new perspectives.<br /><br />The average member reports having made more progress as an entrepreneur in the last two months than in the previous five years. Most are spending less than five hours a week to make this progress which makes the master mind exceptionally time efficient.<br /><br />A number of members are planning educationally related enterprises. To facilitate the growth of their credibility, I arranged for these members to become co-authors with Jack Canfield, John Grey, Bob Proctor, Alan Cohen, Richard Carlson and me in <span style="font-style: italic;">101 Ways to Improve Your Life, Volume 2</span>. This credential is already starting to open doors for the lesser known members.<br /><br />Several members have decided that they would like to found non-English versions of the master mind. This means that we can look forward to expanding our global reach and understanding through these groups as well. I suspect that will make The Billionaire Entrepreneurs' Master Mind one of the few multilingual, global entrepreneurial networks.<br /><br />We are excited about accomplishing even more in the next two months.<br /><br />If you have ideas for how we can improve, please send me an e-mail at <span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">ultimatecompetitiveadvantage@yahoo.com<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Feel free to forward this post to your friends who want to enjoy major entrepreneurial success.<br /><br />With best regards, much appreciation and all good wishes,<br /><br />Don<br /><br />Copyright 2006 Donald W. Mitchell<br /></span></span><br /><br /></span></span></b><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20015576-114410184400424522?l=billiondollarbusiness.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20015576.post-1139332599602043532006-02-07T08:30:00.000-08:002006-04-24T10:20:42.163-07:00<b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"></span></b><span style=""></span> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Good morning, Billion Dollar Business Creators!<br /><br /><strong>Are you feeling motivated this morning?</strong><br /><br />I certainly hope so. I know that I am!<br /><br /></span><span style="color:black;">I am updating these materials as new questions arise. So come back from time to time to see the latest questions and answers.<br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">The rate of inquiries is picking up nicely as more people become aware of the group. </span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black;">If you were invited to come to this blog to find out more about the group, welcome! The members and I appreciate your interest.</span></b><span style="color:black;"><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;">For your convenience, I have listed the most common questions that people have raised so far. I've also answered those questions. If you have a different question, please feel free to call me at 781-647-4211 in the </span><st1:country-region style="font-style: italic;"><st1:place><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">United States</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-style: italic;"> for five minutes. If you would like to make an appointment to have a longer discussion, you can reach me to through ultimatecompetitiveadvantage@yahoo.com to suggest a date and time.</span><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:130%;">1. The Billionaire Entrepreneurs' Master Mind started on February 1. What has my procrastination cost me?<br /></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Many people procrastinate. Did you ever cram at the last minute in school to pass a test? Presumably, you've developed skill in getting things done faster than other people.<br /></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Building a major for-profit or non-profit enterprise is a much more difficult task than passing a test. Sustained effort has always proven to be needed.<br /></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Assuming that you would like to be more successful, your delay so far isn't a major problem. By spending an hour a day, you should be able to catch up with the group within a month.<br /></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">If you procrastinate, however, for three more months, you will be permanently behind those who started on February 1. Why? </span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">You won't be able to join the master mind any more.</span></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><br /></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">But that's okay. You'll still be ahead of the millions of entrepreneurs who are working on the ineffective lessons taught at most business schools if you follow the lessons on the blog.<br /></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:130%;">2. How can an ordinary person with limited resources create a billion dollar enterprise?</span><br /></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Many people are surprised to learn that a number of billion dollar businesses were originally founded as small enterprises funded with a few hundred dollars. That's what Sam Walton did in beginning the predecessor to Wal-Mart. That's what Sir Richard Branson did in founding <span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">The Student</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"> while he was still a teenager. He now better known for the Virgin brand. That's what Michael Dell did from his college dormitory room. Colonel Sanders got his start after he retired by pitching restaurants to pay him a nickel a head of chicken prepared with his 11 herbs and spices. He lived on his Social Security check (quite a small one) and slept in the back of his car at night.<br /></span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">What ordinary people who create extraordinary businesses have in common is that they establish business concepts that are so powerful that the concepts attract customers, supporters and funding like honey draws bears. If your business concept is good enough, everything else you need will be provided.<br /></span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">And that's what we focus on in this group . . . creating the world's finest business concepts. Such concepts usually don't have anything to do with providing better mousetraps. Instead, these business concepts are about providing what people already want in delightful ways that overcome barriers which denied access to the benefits to tens of millions.<br /></span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">So if you have the passion of someone who loves people, the curiosity of a Sherlock Holmes fan and a heart full of caring for those in need, you probably have the right stuff to create a billion dollar business. Funny thing about that description: It fits most people.<br /></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;color:black;">3. What's the difference between making a million and making a billion?</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Most of the proven methods for making a million or a few million aren't appropriate for making a billion.<br /></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">For example, you can develop a property-based business worth five million pretty easily by buying commerical real estate and keeping it rented. You do this by buying such real estate when interest rates are high and a recession is occurring and selling when interest rates are low and an economic expansion is still young. Stay cash liquid by being conservative, and you should do fine.<br /></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">While many would believe you could just keep scaling that process up by 200 times and become a billionaire, that's unlikely to occur. You will either become so pinned down by operating an enormous empire of small buildings or you'll falter as you purchase large buildings that cause you to become undiversified.<br /></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Similarly in other operating businesses, the millionaire opportunities rarely scale into billionaire opportunities.<br /></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">If you had to choose between learning to create a few million and creating a billion, which would you choose?<br /></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">4. How has becoming a member affected entrepreneurs?</span><b><br /></b></span></p><span style="color:black;"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">All members have reported that their initial business models have had to be substantially changed as a result of the six briefings that have been shared so far.<br /><br /></span></b></span><span style="color:black;"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Most significantly, the members report gaining lots of benefit from the work so far in improving their business models and plans. They look forward to each week's directions with great enthusiasm.</span></b></span><br /><span style="color:black;"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><br /></span></b></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">We have held two global teleconferences. These have been helpful in introducing members to one another, sharing questions and ideas and exploring improved </span><span style="color:black;"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">entrepreneurial ideas.<br /><br /></span></b></span> <><span style="color:black;"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">In addition, our plans have expanded to include creating sub-groups that operate in the world's leading languages other than English. Each sub-group will be headed by a member who is bilingual in English and that language. This will allow us to combine the best thinking of those from around the world, regardless of cultural background, to create billion dollar businesses more rapidly.<br /></span></b></span> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Most people report spending less than two hours a week on the master mind, but gain insights that will save them thousands of hours and millions in future expenses. It's a high payoff activity so far!<br /></span></b></span></p> <span style="color:black;"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Those who join now can listen to MP3 recordings of the earlier global teleconferences.<br /><br /></span></b></span><span style="color:black;"><b>5. How can I get a sample of what the organization does?<br /></b></span> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Nothing would be nicer than to let you sample everything the group does before joining. But the information the group is working on is so valuable, that would be like sharing part of the formula for Coca-Cola.<br /></span></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">You can read, however, a sample weekly briefing that was posted on April 8, 2006.<br /></span></span></b></span></p> <span style="color:black;"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The best we can do is to make members available to answer your questions. If you are a serious candidate for the group, we'll make that happen for you.</span></span><br /><br />6. How many places are left?<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">We can only handle 8 new members a month. To add more would dilute the quality of the service. When we've added 8 members in a month, we start a waiting list.<br /><br />In addition, we don't want people to fall too far beyond the rest of the group. We'll shut down the master mind within a few weeks because otherwise we'll just have new members who cannot fully participate. That's not fair to anyone.<br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We'll probably add only 16 more members to the English version of the master mind.</span> </span> Then we'll probably shut down.<br /><br />Over 55 people have already indicated an interest in joining. So we'll probably fill these slots with a waiting list in the next few weeks. Those who can make faster decisions will get in ahead of those who cannot. Those who wait too long will miss the opportunity to join this master mind.<br /><br /></span></b><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Chances are that you'll have a hard time getting into this group.</span><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"> We would like to be able to help everyone. But that's not possible. We apologize for that, but that's reality. A service this good cannot be provided to everyone. It's just for the best and earliest who can take action. Such people make the best entrepreneurs anyway.<br /></span><br />7. Where are the members located?<br /><br /></b></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Most people are surprised to learn that members are based all around the world. Here's the current distribution:</span><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Africa 30%</span></b><br /><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Asia 30%<br />Europe 10%<br />North America 30%</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Currently, members represent 9 countries with multiple members in some countries.</span></span><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">One of the strengths of the organization is its ability to attract perspectives, knowledge and attention from entrepreneurs around the world. This is not just another U.S.-based organization. </span></b><span style="color:black;"><br /><br /><b>8. Can I keep my information confidential?<br /><br /></b></span><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Prospective members are naturally concerned that competitors not run off with their best ideas.<br /><br />We protect against such problems in a variety of ways:<br /><br />a. There is no required disclosure. You can simply keep all of your thinking to yourself.<br /><br />b. Business model and plan evaluations are done by me alone. These materials are not seen by other members unless a member wants to share the information.<br /><br />c. Competitors are not allowed in the group except if a member wants to add a competitor. This is to encourage openness and promote safety.<br /><br /></span><span style="color:black;">9. Should I join the group now or later?<br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Many prospective members find themselves in the middle of major projects or personal situations that are keeping them temporarily busy.<br /><br />Joining sooner has several advantages:<br /><br />a. You can spend a little time as you go and have more time to "sleep on" the questions the group is raising. Most of the weekly assignments can be read in less than five minutes. Have those assignments on your mind for occasional thought (we recommend just before retiring) and your subconscious mind will be creating solutions for you while you work on those near-term priorities.<br /><br />b. You don't have to be concerned about being blocked by a competitor joining ahead of you and keeping you out of the group.<br /><br />c. Fees increase for those who join later so the expense of the group is higher for them.</span></b><br /><span style="color:black;"><br /><b>10. I've read all your books, articles and this blog. I'm looking for something new. What can I expect?<br /><br /></b></span><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Much of the learning in the group will come from other members. You will find people who can help you solve problems because they already have done what you are thinking about . . . but in a different industry.<br /><br />I also expect that many members will partner with one another to make faster progress where that's relevant. Two members already teamed up on the first global teleconference to start that process.<br /><br />As for my work on entrepreneurship, I've never published anything on this subject that represents my core thinking. Although I will probably eventually publish something in this area, that is probably several years in the future.<br /><br />Based on the materials I've seen so far, the simplest business models and plans in the group will be revolutionary in terms of besting the finest success models that many people are following today.<br /><br /></span><span style="color:black;">11. Do I have to want to create a billion dollar business to join?<br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Some people find that idea daunting. It's up to you how large you want to get. But our focus will give you the focus you need to create a billion dollar business. If you decide you want to shoot for something smaller, that's up to you.<br /><br />In addition, some people are more excited by doing public good than making money. This information can also be used to create billion dollar non-profit organizations. We welcome those who would like to pursue these purposes.</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black;">12. What experience do you have with this sort of group?<br /></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">I launched my first advanced learning organization like this in 1989, SHARE PRICE GROWTH 100. That organization was followed by LEADING CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICERS, OUTSTANDING CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICERS and LEADING DIVISION PRESIDENTS. Members of these groups ran large operations for global public firms including some of the 50 largest companies in the world. All these groups have made major advances in best practices and provided remarkable benefits and value to members and their companies. This will be the fifth such organization I have founded, and The Billionaire Entrepreneurs' Master Mind will benefit from what I have learned in working in this area over 17 years.</span></span></span></b><b><span style="color:black;"><br /></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black;">13. What role will you play with members?<br /></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">I see myself in several roles as follows:<br /></span></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">a. Source of unpublished proprietary research on best practices for creating billion dollar businesses from scratch.<br /></span></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">b. Coordinator of the group's activities.<br /></span></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">c. Facilitator of member discussions.<br /></span></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">d. Resource for those with questions.<br /></span></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">e. Connector of members to one another and to my clients when such connections are likely to be valuable to members.<br /></span></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">f. Attractor of attention for those who want publicity.<br /></span></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">g. Objective commentator of business models and plans.<br /></span></span></span></b></p><span style="font-weight: bold;">14. What is your billion dollar business? <br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">I head the Four Hundred Year Project (see www.fastforward400.com) which is a non-profit, social entrepreneurship effort to help the world's people make 400 years worth of normal progress in only 20 years. Through a book I co-authored,<span style="font-style: italic;"> The 2,000 Percent Solution</span>, millions of people have already gained billions of dollars in economic and health benefits from solutions developed by those who have read and applied the book. </span><br /><br />15. How can I learn more about The Billionaire Entrepreneurs' Master Mind?<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">You may call me with questions for a five minute chat at 781-647-4211 in Boston.<br /></span><br />16. I'll never get around to working on this. I'm just too busy. Why should I join?</span><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Are you really too busy to create a billion dollar enterprise? Surely some of what you are working on isn't as important.<br /></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">And you may miss the chance of a lifetime if you wait.<br /><br /></span><span style="color:black;">17. How do I join?<br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The first step is to apply.</span> I will be checking to see if your experience fits with and adds to the group. Seasoned entrepreneurs obviously should be part of the mix. But we have some room for imaginative, inventive entrepreneurs-to-be. Drawing on a variety of diverse backgrounds is good for each member.<br /><br />I'll also need to know what area you plan to work on. That's to screen for possible conflicts with existing members.<br /><br />After you have qualified to join, I can fill you in on the remaining steps.<br /><br /></span><span style="color:black;">Please let me know what I can do to help you.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><br /><br /></span><span style="color:black;">***************************************************************</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><br /><br /></span><span style="color:red;">What are you doing today to start or develop your billion dollar business?<br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">If you aren't working on that task, when will you?</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;">How much have you learned about creating a billion dollar business since February 1? </span> Our members tell us they've learned more than they learned in the rest of the lives combined.<br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black;">The Billionaire Entrepreneurs' Master Mind </span></b><span style="color:black;">will be adding a few members in February. If you want to be one of them, I encourage you to hesitate to procrastinate. While time passes, the value of your future enterprise is diminishing.<br /><br /></span><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Here's how to apply:<br /><br /></span><span style="color:black;">1. Describe the market you want to address. </span></b><span style="color:black;">Competitors are excluded from the group, and we need to be sure that your plans aren't in conflict with a member's plans.<br /><b><br />2. Tell us something about your background as an entrepreneur, executive or manager. </b>That helps us understand if your background will allow you to feel comfortable in the group.<br /><br /><b>3. Share what you want to learn by belonging to the group. </b>This helps us understand if your agenda fits what the group will be working on.<br /><br /></span><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Send your answers to ultimatecompetitiveadvantage@yahoo.com, and we'll respond within a few days. </span><span style="color:black;">Label your subject line as "I Want to Apply to The Billionaire Entrepreneurs' Master Mind".<br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Pricing and more detailed information will be supplied to those who are qualified candidates to join.</span><span style="color:black;"><br /><br />Here's some background information to get you started:<br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><br /></span></b><span style="color:black;">I am going to lay out this subject in its simplest form. I invite you to add your questions as comments to this post. I will answer each one below so that others can gain from the same information.<br /><br />Most billionaires don't try to launch their own new billion dollar businesses. Rather, they are more likely to invest in venture capital funds seeking high rates of appreciation. The odds are that of 30 businesses they invest in, 27 will never be worth much. Three will have some significant value . . . and none of them will become a billion dollar business.<br /><br />Here's a typical situation:<br /><br /></span>The CEO of a start-up workstation company proudly displayed his products and business projections. An engineering consultant had validated the technical superiority of the company’s offerings. All would be well . . . if only another $30 million in capital could be raised to ramp up production.<br /><u1:p></u1:p><br />A year later the company was out of business. Despite the company’s satisfaction with its offerings, not a single customer ever bought one of the company’s workstations. Investors were as unimpressed as the customers. The assets were sold off for two cents on the dollar.<br /><u1:p></u1:p><br />Having met many successful and unsuccessful entrepreneurs, I am constantly reminded that entrepreneurs may have more optimism than good ideas. Most entrepreneurs emphasize one potential customer advantage in their approach. Their approach falters when the company cannot deliver that advantage, customers are unimpressed or a competitor eliminates the entrepreneur’s edge.<u1:p><br /></u1:p><br /><b><span style="color:black;">Here’s a better approach for the 21st century:</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"> Create the right three 2,000 percent solutions and you’ll soon have a business worth over a billion even if you are starting with limited resources.<u1:p> </u1:p></span></b><br /><br /><b>The three 2,000 percent solutions are:</b><u1:p style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></u1:p><br /><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">1. A way to increase the size of the market by 20 times by improving benefits and/or reducing prices;<u1:p style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"></u1:p></span></b><br /><br /><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">2.</span></b> <b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Reduce the company and stakeholder costs to create and use the offering by 95% and invest some of the savings into more benefits not offered by competitors for customers and other stakeholders; and<u1:p style="font-weight: bold;"></u1:p></span></b><br /><br /><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">3.</span></b> <b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Accelerate recruitment of new customers to 20 times the best rate of any competitors.<u1:p style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"></u1:p></span></b><br /><br />On the surface, that sounds like three times the work of creating one 2,000 percent solution. That’s right. But because the benefits multiply against each dimension, the effect is to increase profits by 800,000 percent over a conventional competitor. That’s worth three times the effort.<br /><u1:p></u1:p><br />To make this process easier, I have decided to create <b>The Billionaire Entrepreneurs’ Master Mind</b>.<br /><u1:p></u1:p><br />Members will develop new business models that combine the three essential 2,000 percent solutions into their business models. In doing this, they will be supported by their fellow entrepreneurs in the Master Mind and by me.<br /><u1:p></u1:p><br /><b>Each member will receive these benefits:</b><br /><u1:p></u1:p><br />1. Detailed directions, examples and coaching for how to create these three 2,000 percent solutions.<u1:p><br /></u1:p><br />2. Regular tele-seminars exploring the creation of superior business models built from these three 2,000 percent solutions and how to implement them.<br /><u1:p></u1:p><br />3. Introductions to fellow master mind members with complementary interests and talents to pursue joint ventures and other collaborations.<br /><u1:p></u1:p><br />4. Publicity about their ventures and introductions to investors where those benefits are desired and appropriate.<br /><u1:p></u1:p><br />5. Twice a year evaluations of business models and plans.<br /><u1:p></u1:p><br />6. The option to exclude potential competitors from the master mind while in the group.<br /><u1:p></u1:p><br />The charge for these services will be one annual fee that covers membership for up to 12 months.<u1:p> </u1:p>All staff services for the master mind will be provided by me. I am co-author of <i>The 2,000 Percent Solution</i>, <i>The 2,000 Percent Solution Workbook</i>, <i>The Irresistible Growth Enterprise</i>, <i>The Ultimate Competitive Advantage</i> and the forthcoming <i>The 2,000 Percent Squared Solution</i>.<u2:p></u2:p> <o:p></o:p></p> <p>Please let me know what else you would like to<br />learn, and I'll do my best to help in future blog<br />entries.<br /><br />Thanks so much for your support of this blog.<br />I'm delighted that so many tens of thousands<br />of people have made this blog part of their<br />regular reading habit!<br /><br /><b>If you like this blog, please let others<br />know who might also enjoy it. E-mailing<br />your favorite post to them is a great idea.<br /><br /></b>Thank you to my many friends, students,<br />clients and blog readers who are spreading the<br />good word about this blog.<br /><br />If you are visiting today because someone<br />invited you, I'm delighted to meet you! Let's<br />stay in touch.<br /><br /><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Remember to also visit<br /><br />Live Spiritually Better than a Billionaire at http://livespirituallybetterthanabillionaire.blogspot.com/,</span></b><u2:p></u2:p><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Enjoy Mansions Better than a Billionaire at http://enjoymansionsbetterthanabillionaire.blogspot.com/,<br /><br />Enjoy Football Better than a Billionaire at http://enjoyfootballbetterthanabillionaire.blogspot.com/ and<br /><br />Be a World Hero Better than a Billionaire at http://beaworldherobetterthanabillionaire.blogspot.com/.<br /><br /></span></b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">I offer<b> individual on-line tutorials and<br />in-person seminars</b> on creating 2,000<br />percent solutions (20 times the results with<br />the same effort), developing more profitable<br />business models and designing strategies that<br />work regardless of the business environment. <b><br />For information, contact me at<br />ultimatecompetitiveadvantage@yahoo.com.</b><br /><br />I am available to you as a speaker on these<br />subjects. You can find my background at http://livebetterthanabillionaireon5dollars.blogspot.com/2005_08_30_livebetterthanabillionaireon5dollars_archive.html/.<br /></span><br />May God bless you.<br /><br /><b>Donald W. Mitchell<br />Chairman, Mitchell and Company<br /></b><br />Copyright 2006 Donald W. Mitchell</p><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><br /></span></span></span></span></span><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"></span><br /></span></span></span></b><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20015576-113933259960204353?l=billiondollarbusiness.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20015576.post-1138892088542749952006-02-01T06:37:00.000-08:002006-02-02T06:57:04.126-08:00<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-size:130%;" ></span> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-size:15;" >Good morning, Billion Dollar Business Creators!<br /><br /><strong>Are you feeling motivated this morning?<br /><br /></strong>I certainly hope so. I know that I am!<br /><br /></span></b><b><span style=";font-size:15;color:black;" >Our members are off to a fast start today. They have just received their instructions to:<br /><br /></span></b><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-size:15;" >1. Select an optimal market for their billion dollar business and<br /><br />2. Describe their business model and plan for comment in order to speed their progress towards a billion dollar business.<br /><br /></span></b><b><span style=";font-size:15;color:black;" >We are now setting up the schedule for tele-conferences to discuss these materials.<br /><br /></span></b><b><span style=";font-size:15;color:red;" >What are you doing today to start or develop your billion dollar business?<br /><br /></span></b><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-size:15;" >If you aren't working on that task, when will you?<br /><br /></span></b><b><span style=";font-size:15;color:black;" >The Billionaire Entrepreneurs' Master Mind </span></b><span style=";font-size:15;color:black;" >will be adding a few members in February. If you want to be one of them, I encourage you to hesitate to procrastinate. While time passes, the value of your future enterprise is diminishing.<br /><br /></span><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-size:15;" >Here's how to apply:<br /><br /></span></b><b><span style=";font-size:15;color:black;" >1. Describe the market you want to address. </span></b><span style=";font-size:15;color:black;" >Competitors are excluded from the group, and we need to be sure that your plans aren't in conflict with a member's plans.<br /><b><br />2. Tell us something about your background as an entrepreneur, executive or manager. </b>That helps us understand if your background will allow you to feel comfortable in the group.<br /><br /><b>3. Share what you want to learn by belonging to the group. </b>This helps us understand if your agenda fits what the group will be working on.<br /><br /></span><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-size:15;" >Send your answers to ultimatecompetitiveadvantage@yahoo.com, and we'll respond within a few days. </span></b><b><span style=";font-size:15;color:black;" >Label your subject line as "I Want to Apply to The Billionaire Entrepreneurs' Master Mind".<br /><br /></span></b><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-size:15;" >Pricing and more detailed information will be supplied to those who are qualified candidates to join.</span></b><b><span style=";font-size:15;color:black;" ><br /><br />Here's some background information to get you started:<br /></span></b><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-size:15;" ><br /></span></b><span style=";font-size:15;color:black;" >I am going to lay out this subject in its simplest form. I invite you to add your questions as comments to this post. I will answer each one below so that others can gain from the same information.<br /><br />Most billionaires don't try to launch their own new billion dollar businesses. Rather, they are more likely to invest in venture capital funds seeking high rates of appreciation. The odds are that of 30 businesses they invest in, 27 will never be worth much. Three will have some significant value . . . and none of them will become a billion dollar business.<br /><br />Here's a typical situation:<br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:15;">The CEO of a start-up workstation company proudly displayed his products and business projections. An engineering consultant had validated the technical superiority of the company’s offerings. All would be well . . . if only another $30 million in capital could be raised to ramp up production.<u1:p></u1:p><br /><br />A year later the company was out of business. Despite the company’s satisfaction with its offerings, not a single customer ever bought one of the company’s workstations. Investors were as unimpressed as the customers. The assets were sold off for two cents on the dollar.<u1:p></u1:p><br /><br />Having met many successful and unsuccessful entrepreneurs, I am constantly reminded that entrepreneurs may have more optimism than good ideas. Most entrepreneurs emphasize one potential customer advantage in their approach. Their approach falters when the company cannot deliver that advantage, customers are unimpressed or a competitor eliminates the entrepreneur’s edge.<u1:p> </u1:p><br /><br /><b><span style="color:black;">Here’s a better approach for the 21st century:</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"> Create the right three 2,000 percent solutions and you’ll soon have a business worth over a billion even if you are starting with limited resources.<u1:p> </u1:p></span></b><br /><br /><b>The three 2,000 percent solutions are:</b><u1:p style="font-weight: bold;"> </u1:p><br /><br /><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">1. A way to increase the size of the market by 20 times by improving benefits and/or reducing prices;<u1:p style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"></u1:p></span></b><br /><br /><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">2.</span></b> <b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Reduce the company and stakeholder costs to create and use the offering by 95% and invest some of the savings into more benefits not offered by competitors for customers and other stakeholders; and<u1:p style="font-weight: bold;"></u1:p></span></b><br /><br /><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">3.</span></b> <b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Accelerate recruitment of new customers to 20 times the best rate of any competitors.<u1:p style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"></u1:p></span></b><br /><br />On the surface, that sounds like three times the work of creating one 2,000 percent solution. That’s right. But because the benefits multiply against each dimension, the effect is to increase profits by 800,000 percent over a conventional competitor. That’s worth three times the effort.<u1:p></u1:p><br /><br />To make this process easier, I have decided to create <b>The Billionaire Entrepreneurs’ Master Mind</b>.<u1:p></u1:p><br /><br />Members will develop new business models that combine the three essential 2,000 percent solutions into their business models. In doing this, they will be supported by their fellow entrepreneurs in the Master Mind and by me.<u1:p></u1:p><br /><br /><b>Each member will receive these benefits:</b><u1:p></u1:p><br /><br />1. Detailed directions, examples and coaching for how to create these three 2,000 percent solutions.<u1:p> </u1:p><br /><br />2. Regular tele-seminars exploring the creation of superior business models built from these three 2,000 percent solutions and how to implement them.<u1:p></u1:p><br /><br />3. Introductions to fellow master mind members with complementary interests and talents to pursue joint ventures and other collaborations.<u1:p></u1:p><br /><br />4. Publicity about their ventures and introductions to investors where those benefits are desired and appropriate.<u1:p></u1:p><br /><br />5. Twice a year evaluations of business models and plans.<u1:p></u1:p><br /><br />6. The option to exclude potential competitors from the master mind while in the group.<u1:p></u1:p><br /><br />The charge for these services will be one annual fee that covers membership for up to 12 months.<u1:p> </u1:p>All staff services for the master mind will be provided by me. I am co-author of <i>The 2,000 Percent Solution</i>, <i>The 2,000 Percent Solution Workbook</i>, <i>The Irresistible Growth Enterprise</i>, <i>The Ultimate Competitive Advantage</i> and the forthcoming <i>The 2,000 Percent Squared Solution</i>.</span><o:p></o:p></p> <p><span style="font-size:15;">Please let me know what else you would like to<br />learn, and I'll do my best to help in future blog<br />entries.<br /><br />Thanks so much for your support of this blog.<br />I'm delighted that so many tens of thousands<br />of people have made this blog part of their<br />regular reading habit!<br /><br /><b>If you like this blog, please let others<br />know who might also enjoy it. E-mailing<br />your favorite post to them is a great idea.<br /><br /></b>Thank you to my many friends, students,<br />clients and blog readers who are spreading the<br />good word about this blog.<br /><br />If you are visiting today because someone<br />invited you, I'm delighted to meet you! Let's<br />stay in touch.<br /><br /><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Remember to also visit<br /><br />Live Spiritually Better than a Billionaire at http://livespirituallybetterthanabillionaire.blogspot.com/,</span></b></span><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-size:15;" >Enjoy Mansions Better than a Billionaire at http://enjoymansionsbetterthanabillionaire.blogspot.com/,<br /><br />Enjoy Football Better than a Billionaire at http://enjoyfootballbetterthanabillionaire.blogspot.com/ and<br /><br />Be a World Hero Better than a Billionaire at http://beaworldherobetterthanabillionaire.blogspot.com/.<br /><br /></span></b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-size:15;" >I offer<b> individual on-line tutorials and<br />in-person seminars</b> on creating 2,000<br />percent solutions (20 times the results with<br />the same effort), developing more profitable<br />business models and designing strategies that<br />work regardless of the business environment. <b><br />For information, contact me at<br />ultimatecompetitiveadvantage@yahoo.com.</b><br /><br />I am available to you as a speaker on these<br />subjects. You can find my background at http://livebetterthanabillionaireon5dollars.blogspot.com/2005_08_30_livebetterthanabillionaireon5dollars_archive.html/.<br /></span><span style="font-size:15;"><br />May God bless you.<br /><br /><b>Donald W. Mitchell<br />Chairman, Mitchell and Company<br /></b><br />Copyright 2006 Donald W. Mitchell</span><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20015576-113889208854274995?l=billiondollarbusiness.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20015576.post-1138727122373024532006-01-31T09:01:00.000-08:002006-01-31T09:14:27.856-08:00<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-size:130%;" >Good morning, Billion Dollar Business Creators!<br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Are you feeling motivated this morning? </strong><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><br />I certainly hope so. I know that I am!<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The Billionaire Entrepreneurs' Master<br />Mind put out a press release this morning<br />that I thought you might find helpful.<br /><br />Here it is:</span></span></span><br /><br /><table style="width: 398px; height: 2996px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><td align="left" valign="bottom"><span class="h1format"><span style="font-size:130%;">Entrepreneur Lesson:<br /><br />Start Up Entrepreneurs Learn that Too Much Agreement Can be Dangerous to New Ventures</span> </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="10"><br /></td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#ffffff"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tbody><tr> <td align="left" valign="bottom"><br /></td> </tr> </tbody></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" height="10" valign="top"><br /></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="text12px" align="left" valign="top"><p><i>The Billionaire Entrepreneurs' Master Mind will hold a tele-conference at 2 p.m. tomorrow for members of the media to describe this new approach to entrepreneurship.<br /></i></p> <p><i>Because they had one language, the people who lived at Babel were able to cooperate in building a tower that they hoped would reach into heaven. God didn't want them to build such a tower so he introduced new languages and scattered the people across the face of the earth. God wanted to save the people from being able to cooperate with one another to do anything they could imagine, knowing this would lead to harm. Likewise, today's entrepreneurs find that disagreement can serve them better than agreement. From well argued disagreements can be created new insights, ways to avoid major mistakes and better methods of operation.</i></p> <p>Weston, MA (PRWEB) January 31, 2006 -- Entrepreneur start ups seeking great success are seeking out disagreement with their plans from other entrepreneurs around the world by joining The Billionaire Entrepreneurs' Master Mind, http://billiondollarbusiness.blogspot.com/, to avoid a foolish commitment to bad ideas.<br /><br />Many entrepreneurs have been misled by the agreement they hear from employees and suppliers. Thinking the entrepreneur is a hopeless egomaniac, employees and vendors may politely go along with a bad plan . . . as long as they get paid to agree. Yet entrepreneurs would be better off seeking out people who disagree and will explain their reasons. Such constructive debate is often hard to find within a new venture.<br /><br />Studies of entrepreneurial failure repeatedly show that entrepreneurs often make the following mistakes:<br />1. Believe they have a superior offering when they don't. Do you remember the DeLorean automobile?<br />2. Pursue a market that's indifferent to their new offering. When will people be ready for the Segway?<br />3. Producing an offering that's more expensive when people want something less expensive. How well will new 40,000 square foot mansions sell if heating and air conditioning prices triple?<br />4. Stick with one method of providing benefits for too long.<br />The Osborne 1 was the first portable computer, but you might have developed a hernia carrying it. Waiting too long to develop a lighter version put Osborne out of business.<br />5. Throwing money at the problem rather than brains. Thousands of internet start-ups spent a fortune on content and television advertising just before they went out of business.<br />6. Relying on inexperienced people to play key roles. Many key people heading Boston Chicken before it crashed and burned had no restaurant operating experience.<br />7. Assume they have all the bases covered when they don't know what they don't know. That's the story of every glossy magazine that folded after a few issues.<br /><br />Do you think these people were hearing strong arguments for other courses? Probably not. Even if they were hearing those arguments, the response from the failed entrepreneurs may well have been, "It's my way or the highway."<br /><br />How can start up entrepreneurs avoid these and other common pitfalls: Have lots of people you respect who know what they are doing check your thinking before you act. Add some turmoil to be sure you're on the road to creating something worthwhile.<br /><br />To enable such effective cooperation, alert entrepreneurs have formed The Billionaire Entrepreneurs' Master Mind, a group of entrepreneurs who pledge to build billion dollar businesses by focusing on the key tasks for start up success and helping one another to accomplish those tasks . . . while avoiding catastrophic mistakes.<br /><br />By combining their efforts and funds, each entrepreneur will receive the development support they need for a few thousand dollars rather than the hundreds of thousands that others spend. By checking their ideas with the group on a regular basis, entrepreneurs will also have the benefit of accessing dozens of outside experts who can help them. Many of these entrepreneurs will form alliances with one another to reduce development, marketing and operational costs further. The group prohibits competitors from joining in order to foster a free exchange of ideas and support.<br /><br />Members have used research on major entrepreneurial successes to select these 7 key tasks to work on in The Billionaire Entrepreneurs' Master Mind:<br />― Creating a major new market or expanding an old one by 20 times<br />― Reducing the costs of customers and beneficiaries to use the start up’s offerings to a small fraction of current levels<br />― Adding customers 20 times faster than competitors at low cost<br />― Improving the start up’s business model at least every four years<br />― Employing a business model that doesn’t require much external equity capital<br />― Building a management team deep in innovation, operations, finance and marketing<br />― Searching to find out what they didn’t know that they didn’t know.<br /><br />This new organization begins operating on February 1, 2006. Charter memberships are available before then.<br /><br />This focus reminds many entrepreneurs of God's action at Babel: Make communication more challenging to encourage better results.<br /><br />Donald Mitchell noted: "Entrepreneurs often fail because they dream about the fruits of success rather than looking for what could go wrong. Like the emperor who had no clothes, many entrepreneurs are bare of decent business ideas . . . and don't know it. As long as they have money, someone will praise their business ideas. Someone needs to keep their feet on the ground and away from dangerous temptations. They are more likely to listen to a fellow entrepreneur than they are to someone in their own management team or a family member. With a little tough love to keep them out of mischief, entrepreneurs can accomplish more for themselves and those they serve. Without that tough love, and an entrepreneur can become a modern day equivalent of Nero . . . fiddling around while the new venture crashes and burns."<br /><br />The Billionaire Entrepreneurs’ Master Mind, http://billiondollarbusiness.blogspot.com/, a global learning organization that helps entrepreneurs create billion dollar businesses from start ups is headed by Donald Mitchell (co-author of The 2,000 Percent Solution http://www.2000percentsolution.com/, The 2,000 Percent Solution Workbook http://2000percentsolutions.blogspot.com/, The Ultimate Competitive Advantage and The Irresistible Growth Enterprise http://www.irresistibleforces.com/).<br /><br />A media tele-conference will be held at 2 p.m. EST on Wednesday, February 1, 2006. Please dial 1-712-580-7706 (passcode 16474222#) to join this tele-conference.<br /><br /># # #</p> <font> <font> </span></span></td></tr></tbody> </table><br /><p><span style="font-size:130%;">Please let me know what else you would like to<br />learn, and I'll do my best to help in future blog<br />entries.<br /><br />Thanks so much for your support of this blog.<br />I'm delighted that so many tens of thousands<br />of people have made this blog part of their<br />regular reading habit!<br /><br /><b>If you like this blog, please let others<br />know who might also enjoy it. E-mailing<br />your favorite post to them is a great idea.<br /><br /></b>Thank you to my many friends, students,<br />clients and blog readers who are spreading the<br />good word about this blog.<br /><br />If you are visiting today because someone<br />invited you, I'm delighted to meet you! Let's<br />stay in touch.<br /><br /><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Remember to also visit<br /><br />Live Spiritually Better than a Billionaire at http://livespirituallybetterthanabillionaire.blogspot.com/,<br /></span></b></span> <span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"></span></b></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"></span></b></span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Enjoy Mansions Better than a Billionaire at http://enjoymansionsbetterthanabillionaire.blogspot.com/,<br /><br />Enjoy Football Better than a Billionaire at http://enjoyfootballbetterthanabillionaire.blogspot.com/ and<br /><br />Be a World Hero Better than a Billionaire at http://beaworldherobetterthanabillionaire.blogspot.com/.<br /><br /></span></b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">I offer<b> individual on-line tutorials and<br />in-person seminars</b> on creating 2,000<br />percent solutions (20 times the results with<br />the same effort), developing more profitable<br />business models and designing strategies that<br />work regardless of the business environment. <b><br />For information, contact me at<br />ultimatecompetitiveadvantage@yahoo.com.</b><br /><br />I am available to you as a speaker on these<br />subjects. You can find my background at http://livebetterthanabillionaireon5dollars.blogspot.com/2005_08_30_livebetterthanabillionaireon5dollars_archive.html/.<br /></span><br />May God bless you.<br /><br /><b>Donald W. Mitchell<br />Chairman, Mitchell and Company<br /></b><br />Copyright 2006 Donald W. Mitchell</span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20015576-113872712237302453?l=billiondollarbusiness.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20015576.post-1138632237194860992006-01-30T06:43:00.000-08:002006-01-30T06:43:57.310-08:00<p><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-size:130%;" >Good morning, Billion Dollar Business Creators!<br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Are you feeling motivated this morning? </strong><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><br />I certainly hope so. I know that I am!<br /><br /> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The Billionaire Entrepreneurs' Master<br />Mind put out a press release this morning<br />that I thought you might find helpful.<br /><br />Here it is:<br /><br /></span></span></span></p> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="97%"> <tbody><tr style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><td align="left" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span class="h1format">Entrepreneur Lesson:<br /> <br />Start Up Entrepreneurs Learn that Following the Rules for Success Makes a Difference</span></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="10"><br /></td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#ffffff"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tbody><tr> <td align="left" valign="bottom"><br /></td> </tr> </tbody></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" height="10" valign="top"><br /></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="text12px" align="left" valign="top"><p><i>When God placed Adam into the Garden of Eden, God told Adam that he could freely eat the fruit of any tree in the garden except from the tree of knowledge about good and evil. God warned Adam that he would surely die if he ate from that tree. Adam later sampled that forbidden fruit, and we’ve been dealing with the consequences ever since. Today, entrepreneurs find themselves tempted to pursue poisonous opportunities. By pooling their thinking in a new organization, The Billionaire Entrepreneurs’ Master Mind, these savvy entrepreneurs hope to be sure that each avoids opportunities that can be dangerous to their health and that of their new ventures.</i></p><p>Weston, MA (PRWEB) January 30, 2006 -- Entrepreneur start ups seeking rapid growth are pooling their knowledge and experience in The Billionaire Entrepreneurs' Master Mind, http://billiondollarbusiness.blogspot.com/, to avoid catastrophic errors.<br /><br />Ever since the Garden of Eden, most people have been overconfident about their ability to spot opportunities and dangers. Such overconfidence can be especially dangerous in a new venture where there is little track record to guide entrepreneurs.<br /><br />Studies of entrepreneurial failure repeatedly show that entrepreneurs often make the following mistakes:<br /><br />1. Believe they have a superior offering when they don't. Do you remember the DeLorean automobile?<br />2. Pursue a market that's indifferent to their new offering. When will people be ready for the Segway?<br />3. Producing an offering that's more expensive when people want something less expensive. How well will new 40,000 square foot mansions sell if heating and air conditioning prices triple?<br />4. Stick with one method of providing benefits for too long.<br />The Osborne 1 was the first portable computer, but you might have developed a hernia carrying it. Waiting too long to develop a lighter version put Osborne out of business.<br />5. Throwing money at the problem rather than brains. Thousands of internet start-ups spent a fortune on content and television advertising just before they went out of business.<br />6. Relying on inexperienced people to play key roles. Many key people heading Boston Chicken before it crashed and burned had no restaurant operating experience.<br />7. Assume they have all the bases covered when they don't know what they don't know. That's the story of every glossy magazine that folded after a few issues.<br /><br />How can start up entrepreneurs avoid these and other common pitfalls: Have lots of people check your thinking before you act. Although it's not as good as having God tell you what will work and what won't, it's as good as mere humans can hope to do.<br /><br />To enable such effective cooperation, alert entrepreneurs have formed The Billionaire Entrepreneurs' Master Mind, a group of entrepreneurs who pledge to build billion dollar businesses by focusing on the key tasks for start up success and helping one another to accomplish those tasks . . . while avoiding catastrophic mistakes.<br /><br />By combining their efforts and funds, each entrepreneur will receive the development support they need for a few thousand dollars rather than the hundreds of thousands that others spend. By checking their ideas with the group on a regular basis, entrepreneurs will also have the benefit of accessing dozens of outside experts who can help them. Many of these entrepreneurs will form alliances with one another to reduce development, marketing and operational costs further. The group prohibits competitors from joining in order to foster a free exchange of ideas and support.<br /><br />Members have used research on major entrepreneurial successes to select these 7 key tasks to work on in The Billionaire Entrepreneurs' Master Mind:<br /><br />― Creating a major new market or expanding an old one by 20 times<br />― Reducing the costs of customers and beneficiaries to use the start up’s offerings to a small fraction of current levels<br />― Adding customers 20 times faster than competitors at low cost<br />― Improving the start up’s business model at least every four years<br />― Employing a business model that doesn’t require much external equity capital<br />― Building a management team deep in innovation, operations, finance and marketing<br />― Searching to find out what they didn’t know that they didn’t know.<br /><br />This new organization begins operating on February 1, 2006. Charter memberships are available before then.<br /><br />This focus reminds many entrepreneurs of God's advice to Adam in the Garden of Eden: Avoid making catastrophic mistakes and life will be good.<br /><br />Donald Mitchell noted: "Entrepreneurs often fail because they fall in love with their own ideas . . . and their own sense of importance. Someone needs to keep their feet on the ground and away from dangerous temptations. They are more likely to listen to a fellow entrepreneur than they are to someone in their own management team or a family member. With a little tough love to keep them out of mischief, entrepreneurs can accomplish more for themselves and those they serve. Without that tough love, and an entrepreneur can become a modern day equivalent of Nero . . . fiddling around while the new venture crashes and burns."<br /><br />The Billionaire Entrepreneurs’ Master Mind,<br />http://billiondollarbusiness.blogspot.com/, a global learning organization that helps entrepreneurs create billion dollar businesses from start ups is headed by Donald Mitchell (co-author of The 2,000 Percent Solution http://www.2000percentsolution.com/, The 2,000 Percent Solution Workbook http://2000percentsolutions.blogspot.com/, The Ultimate Competitive Advantage and The Irresistible Growth Enterprise http://www.irresistibleforces.com/).<br /><br />A media tele-conference will be held at 2 p.m. EST on Wednesday, February 1, 2006. Please dial 1-712-580-7706 (passcode 16474222#) to join this tele-conference.<br /><br /># # #</p></td></tr></tbody> </table> <p><br /></p> <p><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:130%;">Please let me know what else you would like to<br />learn, and I'll do my best to help in future blog<br />entries.<br /><br />Thanks so much for your support of this blog.<br />I'm delighted that so many tens of thousands<br />of people have made this blog part of their<br />regular reading habit!<br /><br /><b>If you like this blog, please let others<br />know who might also enjoy it. E-mailing<br />your favorite post to them is a great idea.<br /><br /></b>Thank you to my many friends, students,<br />clients and blog readers who are spreading the<br />good word about this blog.<br /><br />If you are visiting today because someone<br />invited you, I'm delighted to meet you! Let's<br />stay in touch.<br /><br /><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Remember to also visit<br /><br />Live Spiritually Better than a Billionaire at http://livespirituallybetterthanabillionaire.blogspot.com/,<br /></span></b></span> <span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"></span></b></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"></span></b></span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Enjoy Mansions Better than a Billionaire at http://enjoymansionsbetterthanabillionaire.blogspot.com/,<br /><br />Enjoy Football Better than a Billionaire at http://enjoyfootballbetterthanabillionaire.blogspot.com/ and<br /><br />Be a World Hero Better than a Billionaire at http://beaworldherobetterthanabillionaire.blogspot.com/.<br /><br /></span></b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">I offer<b> individual on-line tutorials and<br />in-person seminars</b> on creating 2,000<br />percent solutions (20 times the results with<br />the same effort), developing more profitable<br />business models and designing strategies that<br />work regardless of the business environment. <b><br />For information, contact me at<br />ultimatecompetitiveadvantage@yahoo.com.</b><br /><br />I am available to you as a speaker on these<br />subjects. You can find my background at http://livebetterthanabillionaireon5dollars.blogspot.com/2005_08_30_livebetterthanabillionaireon5dollars_archive.html/.<br /></span><br />May God bless you.<br /><br /><b>Donald W. Mitchell<br />Chairman, Mitchell and Company<br /></b><br />Copyright 2006 Donald W. Mitchell</span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20015576-113863223719486099?l=billiondollarbusiness.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20015576.post-1138631650064923702006-01-30T06:27:00.000-08:002006-01-30T06:34:10.536-08:00<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-size: 130%;">Good morning, Billion Dollar Business Creators!<br /><br /></span><span style="font-size: 130%;"><strong style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Are you feeling motivated this morning? </strong><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><br />I certainly hope so. I know that I am!<br /><br /> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The Billionaire Entrepreneurs' Master<br />Mind put out a press release yesterday morning<br />that I thought you might find helpful.<br /><br />Here it is:<br /><br /></span></span></span> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="97%"> <tbody><tr><td align="left" valign="bottom"><span class="h1format"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Entrepreneur Lesson: Start Up Entrepreneurs Pool Knowledge and Network Resources to Make Faster Progress at Much Less Cos</span>t</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="10"><br /></td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#ffffff"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tbody><tr> <td align="left" valign="bottom"><br /></td> </tr> </tbody></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" height="10" valign="top"><br /></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="text12px" align="left" valign="top"><p><i>Before he flooded the earth, God spoke to Noah and told him to prepare an ark. Into that ark, Noah should put his family, provisions and a male and female pair of animals in order to survive the flood. With God’s help, Noah and his family survived. Today entrepreneurs are faced with a modern flood of competition from new global competitors and opportunities to access new markets that were unavailable before. Like Noah and his family, entrepreneurs are banding together with other entrepreneurs in a new organization, The Billionaire Entrepreneurs’ Master Mind, to create an ark of entrepreneurial knowledge and cooperation that will help them float above the competitive global flood and prosper in its aftermath with God’s help.</i></p><p>Weston, MA (PRWEB) January 29, 2006 -- Entrepreneur start ups seeking rapid gains from around the world are joining together in The Billionaire Entrepreneurs' Master Mind, http://billiondollarbusiness.blogspot.com/, to pool their knowledge and network resources to gain advantages over competitors at a bargain basement cost.<br /><br />According to widely published studies, entrepreneur led start ups usually fail to meet their owner's expectations. What's worse is that within a few years most of these start ups are out of business.<br /><br />To avoid that unfortunate fate, wealthy entrepreneurs often sink hundreds of thousands of dollars into developing business models and plans for their new ventures. Equally ambitious entrepreneurs who could not afford such expenses before now simply made do with inadequate preparation.<br /><br />But now, entrepreneurs from around the world based in countries like Indonesia, Lesotho, Nigeria and Tanzania are finding that they can move ahead of such well-funded start ups by pooling their resources and focusing on more helpful start up activities.<br /><br />To enable such cooperation, these savvy entrepreneurs have formed The Billionaire Entrepreneurs' Master Mind, a group of entrepreneurs who pledge to build billion dollar businesses by focusing on the key tasks for start up success and helping one another to accomplish those tasks.<br /><br />By combining their efforts and funds, each entrepreneur will receive the development support they need for a few thousand dollars rather than the hundreds of thousands that others spend. By checking their ideas with the group on a regular basis, entrepreneurs will also have the benefit of accessing dozens of outside experts who can help them. Many of these entrepreneurs will form alliances with one another to reduce development, marketing and operational costs further. The group prohibits competitors from joining in order to foster a free exchange of ideas and support.<br /><br />Members have used research on major entrepreneurial successes to select these 7 key tasks to work on in The Billionaire Entrepreneurs' Master Mind:<br /><br />― Creating a major new market or expanding an old one by 20 times<br />― Reducing the costs of customers and beneficiaries to use the start up’s offerings to a small fraction of current levels<br />― Adding customers 20 times faster than competitors at low cost<br />― Improving the start up’s business model at least every four years<br />― Employing a business model that doesn’t require much external equity capital<br />― Building a management team deep in innovation, operations, finance and marketing<br />― Searching to find out what they didn’t know that they didn’t know.<br /><br />This new organization begins operating on February 1, 2006. Charter memberships are available before then.<br /><br />This focus reminds many entrepreneurs of God's advice to Noah in preparing for the flood: Stick together and do the right things, and you will inherit a rich future.<br /><br />Donald Mitchell noted: "Entrepreneurs often fail because they try to do everything themselves. While entrepreneurs are scurrying around like a chicken with its head cut off, important tasks are being ignored or delayed. Yet anyone can reach their goals if they get lots of feedback to let them know when they are on and off course. The Billionaire Entrepreneurs' Master Mind will serve like the autopilot on a jet liner that keeps the plane headed towards its destination while the pilot and co-pilot are occupied in other ways."<br /><br />The Billionaire Entrepreneurs’ Master Mind,<br />http://billiondollarbusiness.blogspot.com/, a global learning organization that helps entrepreneurs create billion dollar businesses from start ups is headed by Donald Mitchell (co-author of The 2,000 Percent Solution http://www.2000percentsolution.com/, The 2,000 Percent Solution Workbook http://2000percentsolutions.blogspot.com/, The Ultimate Competitive Advantage and The Irresistible Growth Enterprise http://www.irresistibleforces.com/).<br /><br />A media tele-conference will be held at 2 p.m. EST on Wednesday, February 1, 2006. Please dial 1-712-580-7706 (passcode 16474222#) to join this tele-conference.<br /><br /># # #</p> </td></tr></tbody> </table><br /><span style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /></span></span></span> <p><span style="font-size: 130%;">Please let me know what else you would like to<br />learn, and I'll do my best to help in future blog<br />entries.<br /><br />Thanks so much for your support of this blog.<br />I'm delighted that so many tens of thousands<br />of people have made this blog part of their<br />regular reading habit!<br /><br /><b>If you like this blog, please let others<br />know who might also enjoy it. E-mailing<br />your favorite post to them is a great idea.<br /><br /></b>Thank you to my many friends, students,<br />clients and blog readers who are spreading the<br />good word about this blog.<br /><br />If you are visiting today because someone<br />invited you, I'm delighted to meet you! Let's<br />stay in touch.<br /><br /><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Remember to also visit<br /><br />Live Spiritually Better than a Billionaire at http://livespirituallybetterthanabillionaire.blogspot.com/,<br /></span></b></span> <span style="font-size: 130%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"></span></b></span><span style="font-size: 130%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"></span></b></span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Enjoy Mansions Better than a Billionaire at http://enjoymansionsbetterthanabillionaire.blogspot.com/,<br /><br />Enjoy Football Better than a Billionaire at http://enjoyfootballbetterthanabillionaire.blogspot.com/ and<br /><br />Be a World Hero Better than a Billionaire at http://beaworldherobetterthanabillionaire.blogspot.com/.<br /><br /></span></b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">I offer<b> individual on-line tutorials and<br />in-person seminars</b> on creating 2,000<br />percent solutions (20 times the results with<br />the same effort), developing more profitable<br />business models and designing strategies that<br />work regardless of the business environment. <b><br />For information, contact me at<br />ultimatecompetitiveadvantage@yahoo.com.</b><br /><br />I am available to you as a speaker on these<br />subjects. You can find my background at http://livebetterthanabillionaireon5dollars.blogspot.com/2005_08_30_livebetterthanabillionaireon5dollars_archive.html/.<br /></span><br />May God bless you.<br /><br /><b>Donald W. Mitchell<br />Chairman, Mitchell and Company<br /></b><br />Copyright 2006 Donald W. Mitchell</span></p><br /><span style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /></span></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20015576-113863165006492370?l=billiondollarbusiness.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20015576.post-1138403399461375842006-01-27T03:04:00.000-08:002006-01-30T06:35:29.193-08:00<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-size:130%;" >Good morning, Billion Dollar Business Creators!<br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Are you feeling motivated this morning? </strong><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><br />I certainly hope so. I know that I am!<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The Billionaire Entrepreneurs' Master<br />Mind will begin operating on February 1, 2006.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">The discounted offer to join as a Charter Member ends that day, too. </span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /><br />Members will begin receiving their first briefing documents on February 1.<br /><br />Would you like to start a billion dollar business?<br /><br />Do you know how?<br /><br />We do.<br /><br />Where else can you learn?<br /><br />If you are a serious entrepreneur, you should join now.<br /><br />Competitors will be excluded so we can cooperate and be more open with one another.<br /><br />If you wait too long, you may not be able to join because a competitor beat you to it.<br /><br />Would you like to have a competitor learning how to create a billion dollar business very rapidly?<br /><br />I have a few slots left to discuss this with those who are interested. Send me an e-mail at ultimatecompetitiveadvantage@yahoo.com to reserve a time to discuss your membership.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">***********************************</span></span><br /></span></span></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></span></span></span> <p><span style="font-size:130%;">Please let me know what else you would like to<br />learn, and I'll do my best to help in future blog<br />entries.<br /><br />Thanks so much for your support of this blog.<br />I'm delighted that so many tens of thousands<br />of people have made this blog part of their<br />regular reading habit!<br /><br /><b>If you like this blog, please let others<br />know who might also enjoy it. E-mailing<br />your favorite post to them is a great idea.<br /><br /></b>Thank you to my many friends, students,<br />clients and blog readers who are spreading the<br />good word about this blog.<br /><br />If you are visiting today because someone<br />invited you, I'm delighted to meet you! Let's<br />stay in touch.<br /><br /><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Remember to also visit<br /><br />Live Spiritually Better than a Billionaire at http://livespirituallybetterthanabillionaire.blogspot.com/,<br /></span></b></span> <span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"></span></b></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"></span></b></span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Enjoy Mansions Better than a Billionaire at http://enjoymansionsbetterthanabillionaire.blogspot.com/,<br /><br />Enjoy Football Better than a Billionaire at http://enjoyfootballbetterthanabillionaire.blogspot.com/ and<br /><br />Be a World Hero Better than a Billionaire at http://beaworldherobetterthanabillionaire.blogspot.com/.<br /><br /></span></b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">I offer<b> individual on-line tutorials and<br />in-person seminars</b> on creating 2,000<br />percent solutions (20 times the results with<br />the same effort), developing more profitable<br />business models and designing strategies that<br />work regardless of the business environment. <b><br />For information, contact me at<br />ultimatecompetitiveadvantage@yahoo.com.</b><br /><br />I am available to you as a speaker on these<br />subjects. You can find my background at http://livebetterthanabillionaireon5dollars.blogspot.com/2005_08_30_livebetterthanabillionaireon5dollars_archive.html/.<br /></span><br />May God bless you.<br /><br /><b>Donald W. Mitchell<br />Chairman, Mitchell and Company<br /></b><br />Copyright 2006 Donald W. Mitchell</span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20015576-113840339946137584?l=billiondollarbusiness.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20015576.post-1138195666003722632006-01-25T05:23:00.000-08:002006-01-25T05:27:46.266-08:00<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-size: 130%;">Good morning, Billion Dollar Business Creators!<br /><br /></span><span style="font-size: 130%;"><strong style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Are you feeling motivated this morning? </strong><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><br />I certainly hope so. I know that I am!<br /><br /> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The Billionaire Entrepreneurs' Master<br />Mind put out a press release this morning<br />that I thought you might find helpful.<br /><br />Here it is:<br /><br /></span></span></span> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="97%"> <tbody><tr> <td align="left" valign="bottom"><span class="h1format">Entrepreneur Lesson: Start Ups Should Avoid Time Management in Favor of Multiplying Customer Benefits </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="10"><br /></td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#ffffff"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tbody><tr> <td align="left" valign="bottom"><p class="text11px"><a href="http://pdfserver.prweb.com/pdfdownload/327567/pr.pdf"><img src="http://ww1.prweb.com//images_v4/adobepdf_sm.gif" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://pdfserver.prweb.com/pdfdownload/327567/pr.pdf">Download this press release as an Adobe PDF document.</a></p></td> </tr> </tbody></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" height="10" valign="top"><br /></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="text12px" align="left" valign="top"><p><i>While Moses was away for forty days receiving the Ten Commandments from God, Aaron bowed to popular pressure and created a golden calf for the Hebrews to worship. As a result God became angry and decided that the Hebrews would wander in the wilderness for forty years before reaching the Promised Land. Likewise, entrepreneurs launching start ups today are finding that popular time management techniques encourage entrepreneurs to work on the wrong tasks, rather than spending whatever time is needed to complete the tasks that will lead to the promised land of entrepreneurial success. As a result, entrepreneur start ups fail to succeed more often, are smaller and less profitable, and take longer to establish.</i></p> <p>Weston, MA (PRWEB) January 25, 2006 -- Entrepreneur start ups seeking to create billion dollar businesses should focus all their attention on the right tasks rather than allocating their time to what they think is important based on a new study.<br /><br />Time management experts argue that you should split your day into a variety of tasks, emphasizing the most important ones according to your goals. Such a process would never have allowed Moses to spend forty days with God on Mount Sinai to receive the Ten Commandments. Instead Moses would have been spending part of every day (except the Sabbath) reorganizing the distribution of manna, planning for the deployment of scouts to look for the Promised Land and practicing his technique for bringing forth water in the desert. Perhaps Aaron had, in fact, taken such a time management course and had an objective to keep people satisfied with their religious practices according to their own preferences. If so, he clearly was working on the wrong task.<br /><br />The Billionaire Entrepreneurs’ Master Mind, <a href="http://billiondollarbusiness.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://billiondollarbusiness.blogspot.com/</a>, a global learning organization that helps entrepreneurs create billion dollar businesses from start ups headed by Donald Mitchell (co-author of The 2,000 Percent Solution <a href="http://www.2000percentsolution.com/" target="_blank">http://www.2000percentsolution.com/</a>, The Ultimate Competitive Advantage and The Irresistible Growth Enterprise <a href="http://www.irresistibleforces.com/" target="_blank">http://www.irresistibleforces.com/</a>), examined the large companies that had the fastest growth under one CEO from 1989-2002 which had been founded as entrepreneurial ventures. This study determined that<br /><br />The entrepreneurs focused their start ups on 7 key tasks, regardless of how long it took to accomplish the tasks:<br />― Creating a major new market or expanding an old one by 20 times<br />― Reducing the costs of customers and beneficiaries to use the start up’s offerings<br />― Adding customers 20 times faster than competitors at low cost<br />― Improving the start up’s business model at least every four years<br />― Employing a business model that didn’t require much external equity capital<br />― Building a management team deep in innovation, operations, finance and marketing<br />― Searching to find out what they didn’t know that they didn’t know.<br /><br />This focus reminds many entrepreneurs of the way that Moses stayed with God on Mount Sinai until he had the Ten Commandments. It took forty days, but it was well worth the wait.<br /><br />Donald Mitchell noted: “Entrepreneurs may be setting themselves up for failure when they set rigid deadlines for launching their offerings. If a delay means greatly adding to customer benefits, vast realms of opportunity will be opened up by being flexible rather than efficient in the venture’s use of time. Time management techniques can create a false illusion of progress while directing attention away from what’s really important to future success. Unsuccessful entrepreneurs usually are focusing on only one, two or three of the key tasks which creates the appearance rather than the reality of entrepreneurial progress.”<br /><br />Mitchell cited the example of Tellabs which experienced a long delay of several years in producing its first telecommunications switch. But the company’s entrepreneurial leader, Mike Birck, was patient in order to ensure that the resulting product would be unstoppable. It was the right decision. After the product was launched, Tellabs experienced more sustained revenue, earnings and stock price growth than any other manufacturing company of its size in North America.<br /><br />A media tele-conference will be held at 2 p.m. EST today, January 25. Please dial 1-712-580-7706 (passcode 16474222#) to join this tele-conference.<br /><br /># # #</p></td></tr></tbody> </table> <span style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"></span></span> <p><span style="font-size: 130%;">Please let me know what else you would like to<br />learn, and I'll do my best to help in future blog<br />entries.<br /><br />Thanks so much for your support of this blog.<br />I'm delighted that so many tens of thousands<br />of people have made this blog part of their<br />regular reading habit!<br /><br /><b>If you like this blog, please let others<br />know who might also enjoy it. E-mailing<br />your favorite post to them is a great idea.<br /><br /></b>Thank you to my many friends, students,<br />clients and blog readers who are spreading the<br />good word about this blog.<br /><br />If you are visiting today because someone<br />invited you, I'm delighted to meet you! Let's<br />stay in touch.<br /><br /><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Remember to also visit<br /><br />Live Spiritually Better than a Billionaire at http://livespirituallybetterthanabillionaire.blogspot.com/,<br /></span></b></span> <span style="font-size: 130%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"></span></b></span><span style="font-size: 130%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"></span></b></span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Enjoy Mansions Better than a Billionaire at http://enjoymansionsbetterthanabillionaire.blogspot.com/,<br /><br />Enjoy Football Better than a Billionaire at http://enjoyfootballbetterthanabillionaire.blogspot.com/ and<br /><br />Be a World Hero Better than a Billionaire at http://beaworldherobetterthanabillionaire.blogspot.com/.<br /><br /></span></b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">I offer<b> individual on-line tutorials and<br />in-person seminars</b> on creating 2,000<br />percent solutions (20 times the results with<br />the same effort), developing more profitable<br />business models and designing strategies that<br />work regardless of the business environment. <b><br />For information, contact me at<br />ultimatecompetitiveadvantage@yahoo.com.</b><br /><br />I am available to you as a speaker on these<br />subjects. You can find my background at http://livebetterthanabillionaireon5dollars.blogspot.com/2005_08_30_livebetterthanabillionaireon5dollars_archive.html/.<br /></span><br />May God bless you.<br /><br /><b>Donald W. Mitchell<br />Chairman, Mitchell and Company<br /></b><br />Copyright 2006 Donald W. Mitchell</span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20015576-113819566600372263?l=billiondollarbusiness.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20015576.post-1137875951257803262006-01-21T12:30:00.000-08:002006-01-21T12:39:11.490-08:00<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-size: 130%;">Good morning, Billion Dollar Business Creators!<br /><br /></span><span style="font-size: 130%;"><strong style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Are you feeling motivated this morning? </strong><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><br />I certainly hope so. I know that I am!<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">As the start of The Billionaire Entrepreneurs' Master Mind draws closer, I'm so excited about the wonderful work we will be doing together in February to create markets that are 20 times larger which your company will dominate. <br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">If you still have questions about the group, you have three choices:<br /><br />1. Join our next tele-conference at 10 a.m. EST on Monday, January 23, 2006<br /><br /></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Call in by dailing 1-712-580-7706. Select 2 on your touch-tone keypad to bypass the instructions. Enter the tele-conference passcode: 16474211#<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">2. Send me an e-mail at <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">ultimatecompetitiveadvantage@yahoo.com/ with your questions.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">3. Send me an e-mail to set up a time for a personal telephone call.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><br /></span></span> <p><span style="font-size: 130%;">Please let me know what else you would like to<br />learn, and I'll do my best to help in future blog<br />entries.<br /><br />Thanks so much for your support of this blog.<br />I'm delighted that so many tens of thousands<br />of people have made this blog part of their<br />regular reading habit!<br /><br /><b>If you like this blog, please let others<br />know who might also enjoy it. E-mailing<br />your favorite post to them is a great idea.<br /><br /></b>Thank you to my many friends, students,<br />clients and blog readers who are spreading the<br />good word about this blog.<br /><br />If you are visiting today because someone<br />invited you, I'm delighted to meet you! Let's<br />stay in touch.<br /><br /><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Remember to also visit<br /><br />Live Spiritually Better than a Billionaire at http://livespirituallybetterthanabillionaire.blogspot.com/,<br /></span></b></span> <span style="font-size: 130%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"></span></b></span><span style="font-size: 130%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"></span></b></span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Enjoy Mansions Better than a Billionaire at http://enjoymansionsbetterthanabillionaire.blogspot.com/,<br /><br />Enjoy Football Better than a Billionaire at http://enjoyfootballbetterthanabillionaire.blogspot.com/ and<br /><br />Be a World Hero Better than a Billionaire at http://beaworldherobetterthanabillionaire.blogspot.com/.<br /><br /></span></b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">I offer<b> individual on-line tutorials and<br />in-person seminars</b> on creating 2,000<br />percent solutions (20 times the results with<br />the same effort), developing more profitable<br />business models and designing strategies that<br />work regardless of the business environment. <b><br />For information, contact me at<br />ultimatecompetitiveadvantage@yahoo.com.</b><br /><br />I am available to you as a speaker on these<br />subjects. You can find my background at http://livebetterthanabillionaireon5dollars.blogspot.com/2005_08_30_livebetterthanabillionaireon5dollars_archive.html/.<br /></span><br />May God bless you.<br /><br /><b>Donald W. Mitchell<br />Chairman, Mitchell and Company<br /></b><br />Copyright 2006 Donald W. Mitchell</span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20015576-113787595125780326?l=billiondollarbusiness.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20015576.post-1137593450342252532006-01-18T06:09:00.000-08:002006-01-18T06:10:50.580-08:00<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="97%"> <tbody><tr><td align="left" valign="bottom"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-size: 130%;">Good morning, Billion Dollar Business Creators!<br /><br /></span><span style="font-size: 130%;"><strong style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Are you feeling motivated this morning? </strong><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><br />I certainly hope so. I know that I am!<br /> <br /> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The Billionaire Entrepreneurs' Master<br />Mind put out a press release this morning<br />that I thought you might find helpful.<br /> <br />Here it is:<br /> </span></span></span><span class="h1format"><br />Entrepreneur Lesson: Start Ups Should Avoid Venture Capital<br />and Focus on 7 Key Tasks Instead Based a New Study</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="10"><br /></td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#ffffff"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tbody><tr> <td align="left" valign="bottom"><p class="text11px"><a href="http://pdfserver.prweb.com/pdfdownload/327316/pr.pdf"><img src="http://ww1.prweb.com//images_v4/adobepdf_sm.gif" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://pdfserver.prweb.com/pdfdownload/327316/pr.pdf">Download this press release as an Adobe PDF document.</a></p></td> </tr> </tbody></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" height="10" valign="top"><br /></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="text12px" align="left" valign="top"><p><i>When David defeated Goliath, he used only a sling and some<br />stones. Leveraging his skill and focus, David aimed his<br />stones at the right spot and the rest is history. Entrepreneurs<br />today launching start ups are finding that venture capital<br />makes them vulnerable like Goliath while mental capital<br />makes them agile and effective like David.</i></p> <p>Weston, MA (PR WEB) January 18, 2006 ― Entrepreneur<br />start ups seeking venture capital are less likely to create<br />billion dollar businesses than start ups that focus on 7 key<br />tasks based on a new study.<br /><br />The Billionaire Entrepreneurs’ Master Mind,<br /><a href="http://billiondollarbusiness.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://billiondollarbusiness.blogspot.com/</a>, a global learning<br />organization that helps entrepreneurs create billion dollar<br />businesses from start ups headed by Donald Mitchell<br />(co-author of The 2,000 Percent Solution<br /><a href="http://www.2000percentsolution.com/" target="_blank">http://www.2000percentsolution.com/</a>, The 2,000 Percent<br />Solution Workbook <a href="http://2000percentsolutions.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://2000percentsolutions.blogspot.com/</a>,<br />The Ultimate Competitive Advantage and The Irresistible<br />Growth Enterprise <a href="http://www.irresistibleforces.com/" target="_blank">http://www.irresistibleforces.com/</a>),<br />examined the large companies that had the fastest growth<br />under one CEO from 1989-2002.<br /><br />Most of the top performers were begun by an entrepreneur<br />as a start up. The majority of these top-performing former<br />start ups never relied on venture capital. Examples include<br />Clear Channel Communications, Paychex, Virgin Group and<br />Wal-Mart. Their beginnings were often humble. Sir Richard<br />Branson dropped out of high school to start Virgin. Tom <br />Golisano started Paychex in a one-room office with two colleagues.<br /><br />Instead of venture capital, the entrepreneurs focused their<br />start ups on 7 key tasks:<br />― Creating a major new market or expanding an old one by<br />20 times<br />― Reducing the costs of customers and beneficiaries to use<br />the start up’s offerings<br />― Adding customers 20 times faster than competitors at<br />low cost<br />― Improving the start up’s business model at least every<br />four years<br />― Employing a business model that didn’t require much<br />external equity capital<br />― Building a management team deep in innovation,<br />operations, finance and marketing<br />― Searching to find out what they didn’t know that they<br />didn’t know.<br /><br />Donald Mitchell noted: “Venture capital is expensive because<br />investors are seeking huge gains. Fields that attract venture<br />capital soon have too many competitors. Venture capitalists<br />are quick to fire entrepreneurs who fail to meet their business<br />plan goals. Firms without venture capital learn how to create<br />leaner, more competitive businesses that can become highly<br />prosperous.”<br /><br />A press conference for members of the media will be held at<br />4 p.m. EST today, January 18, to discuss this research and<br />how entrepreneurs can build their businesses more successfully.<br />To register for this press conference, send an e-mail before<br />4 p.m. EST today to e-mail protected from spam bots and<br />directions to join the call will be sent to you. Label your e-mail<br />subject as "Entrepreneur Lesson Press Conference".<br /><br /># # #<br /></p> <p><span style="font-size: 130%;">Please let me know what else you would like to<br />learn, and I'll do my best to help in future blog<br />entries.<br /><br />Thanks so much for your support of this blog.<br />I'm delighted that so many tens of thousands<br />of people have made this blog part of their<br />regular reading habit!<br /><br /><b>If you like this blog, please let others<br />know who might also enjoy it. E-mailing<br />your favorite post to them is a great idea.<br /><br /></b>Thank you to my many friends, students,<br />clients and blog readers who are spreading the<br />good word about this blog.<br /><br />If you are visiting today because someone<br />invited you, I'm delighted to meet you! Let's<br />stay in touch.<br /><br /><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Remember to also visit<br /><br />Live Spiritually Better than a Billionaire at http://livespirituallybetterthanabillionaire.blogspot.com/,<br /></span></b></span> <span style="font-size: 130%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"></span></b></span><span style="font-size: 130%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"></span></b></span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Enjoy Mansions Better than a Billionaire at http://enjoymansionsbetterthanabillionaire.blogspot.com/,<br /><br />Enjoy Football Better than a Billionaire at http://enjoyfootballbetterthanabillionaire.blogspot.com/ and<br /><br />Be a World Hero Better than a Billionaire at http://beaworldherobetterthanabillionaire.blogspot.com/.<br /><br /></span></b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">I offer<b> individual on-line tutorials and<br />in-person seminars</b> on creating 2,000<br />percent solutions (20 times the results with<br />the same effort), developing more profitable<br />business models and designing strategies that<br />work regardless of the business environment. <b><br />For information, contact me at<br />ultimatecompetitiveadvantage@yahoo.com.</b><br /><br />I am available to you as a speaker on these<br />subjects. You can find my background at http://livebetterthanabillionaireon5dollars.blogspot.com/2005_08_30_livebetterthanabillionaireon5dollars_archive.html/.<br /></span><br />May God bless you.<br /><br /><b>Donald W. Mitchell<br />Chairman, Mitchell and Company<br /></b><br />Copyright 2006 Donald W. Mitchell</span></p></td></tr></tbody> </table><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20015576-113759345034225253?l=billiondollarbusiness.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20015576.post-1137259527606669242006-01-14T09:17:00.000-08:002006-01-14T09:26:51.086-08:00<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-size:130%;" >Good morning, Billion Dollar Business Creators!<br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Are you feeling motivated this morning? </strong><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">I certainly hope so. I know that I am!<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Many people are contacting me to request application information for The Billionaire Entrepreneurs' Master Mind.<br /><br />To make life easier for you, feel free to follow these directions to speed up the process:<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">1. Tell me a little about your background as an entrepreneur.<br /><br />2. Briefly describe what entrepreneurial opportunity you want to pursue through <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The Billionaire Entrepreneurs' Master Mind.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">3. Outline what you want to learn and apply based on your membership in </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The Billionaire Entrepreneurs' Master Mind.<br /><br />Send your responses to me at ultimatecompetitiveadvantage@yahoo.com/.</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"></span><br /></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><br />Continuing on January 18 at 5 p.m., I will host the second in another series of three free one-hour conference calls</span> in which you can join to hear me describe </span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Billionaire Entrepreneurs' Master Mind</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">. As part of these calls, I will be describing more about creating 2,0