tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-200155762024-03-13T21:55:04.388-07:00Create a Billion Dollar BusinessYour introduction to The Billionaire Entrepreneurs' Master MindDonald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.comBlogger60125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20015576.post-50058798367784443422015-07-10T08:03:00.002-07:002015-07-16T05:58:02.335-07:00Read excerpts from<i> Advanced Business: Exponentially Increase Stakeholder Value. </i>The book was published on July 4, 2015 and shows ways to be much more successful. Copyright 2015 Donald W. Mitchell. All Rights Reserved.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
global economy is turbulent today. Money flowing from one country to another
country can be a powerful force facilitating economies or spreading a global
economic crisis. You can’t succeed by looking at the world from just one
location, one perspective, or one set of interests.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Trade is borderless. The market continually
shifts the links in the total supply chain between countries that produce raw
materials and the countries that manufacture and supply global customers and
end users. To stay ahead of the current complexities of today’s business
environment requires that business leaders have a deep understanding of how
their organizations connect now and should connect in the future to the total
value chain for the industry they serve. In doing so, today’s businesses touch
more lives and affect more interests than ever before, increasing the challenges<u><span style="color: black;"><span class="MsoCommentReference"><span style="mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-special-character: comment;"></span></span></span></span></u>
of adding value for all stakeholders.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">What happens when the world changes faster than
our organizations do? Donald Mitchell’s book, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="mso-comment-date: 20150323T1101; mso-comment-reference: "ROV \(BP\)_2";"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Advanced Business: Exponentially Increase Stakeholder Value</i></a><span class="MsoCommentReference"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-special-character: comment;"></span></span></i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">,</i>
answers that question and provides solutions for becoming the driving force for
making helpful improvements.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Part One describes the better choices for
adding value to eleven classes of stakeholders, from end users to the
communities a firm serves. Part Two spells out how investors determine value.
Part Three identifies ten strategies that can add value for all stakeholders.
Part Four relates three operating methods for increasing value. Part Five has
four human-resources practices for enhancing value. Part Six addresses seven
financial techniques for boosting value. Part Seven contains seven
communications practices for value expansion. Part Eight pulls together in six
lessons how to develop and implement an optimal value-improvement program.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Advanced
Business</span></i><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">
is the most excellent business management book that I have ever read. This book
covers the basics of how to be successful in the modern business world by
creating increased benefits and value for all stakeholders, rather than just
for the company’s owners. This book will benefit both business students and
leaders of organizations by guiding them in how to put Dr. Mitchell’s expert
business concepts into practice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dr. Donald Mitchell was an excellent advisor to
me when I worked on my Ph.D. program at Rushmore University, suggesting that I
develop the optimal order for expanding the value of an organization and its
stakeholders. Reading and applying the lessons in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Advanced Business</i> will enable you to gain from his expert advice,
as well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I was pleased to see that some of the concepts
in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Advanced Business</i> have been
successfully practiced in our organization and in many large companies. For
example, 30 years ago I set up business as a small trading company distributing
DuPont’s products in Thailand. I learned how DuPont grew its business from a
gunpowder maker to become a leader in the chemical industry by increasing
stakeholders’ value. We and end users of DuPont’s products fully benefited from
its expanded offerings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Currently, our business, Innovation Group, has
grown from being a distributor of DuPont products to being one of the leaders
in polymer technology. We have become a global company supplying rubber
compounds, parts, and technology services to major brands of car makers in many
countries. Innovation Group is one of the main suppliers of rubber products for
Japanese cars and has learned from the concepts of Japanese car manufacturers
in increasing technology value along the supply chain. They are becoming
technologically competitive and cost efficient by building cooperative,
long-term profitable relationships with business partners along the total
supply chain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">All these successful business concepts are
fully described in Dr. Mitchell’s book.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Advanced
Business</span></i><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">
is an excellent book that I fully recommend you read and apply.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dr.
Banja Junhasavasdikul, Ph.D.</span></div>
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our land will yield its increase</span></i><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The information in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Advanced Business: Exponentially Increase
Stakeholder Value</i> has been selected from among The 400 Year Project’s most powerful,
easily appreciated, and readily applicable lessons accrued during the project’s
19 years of research and practice. Many of these lessons were initially
developed during 2010 and 2011 for The Billionaire Entrepreneurs’ Master Mind,
a consortium of entrepreneurs for learning and applying the latest generation
of The 400 Year Project’s best practices to achieve more than breakthrough
success. Versions of seven lessons in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Advanced
Business</i> also appear in the for-profit edition of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Excellent Solutions</i> (400 Year Project Press, 2014). All the lessons
also have deep roots in earlier research and testing done by Share Price Growth
100, a partnership of global leaders that Carol Coles and I directed in developing
many of the current best practices for expanding shareholder value. All fifty
lessons have been updated, expanded, and improved to increase their usefulness.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Advanced Business:
Exponentially Increase Stakeholder Value </span></i><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">is different from many other
value-improvement books in that it pays attention to ways of benefiting all
stakeholders, rather than just the company’s owners. If you aren’t familiar
with the term “stakeholder,” let me explain what I mean. Anyone who is substantially
affected by an organization or a company has a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">stake</i> in how its activities are conducted. The concept of an
individual or organization having a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">stake</i>
has been used to describe such an individual or an organization by the word <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">stakeholder</i>. Such individuals and
organizations include all those who contribute to, benefit from, or are significantly
affected by a company’s existence and its actions, potentially including some
of the following: end users of offerings and benefits, customers, customers’
customers, distributors, dealers, agents, suppliers, suppliers’ suppliers,
employees, employees’ families, partners, shareholders, lenders, lessors,
neighbors, the communities in which the organization operates, and anyone else
who is substantially affected by the organization.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Some
might be tempted to dismiss such a broader focus on who should benefit from a
company as being some form of impractical idealism. While many of those who
advocate such a broadening of who should benefit from a company or organization
base their thinking solely in what increases their emotional comfort, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Advanced Business: Exponentially Increase
Stakeholder Value </i>takes its guidance differently. First, direction comes
from God’s Word, the Bible. Second, insights into how to apply the Bible’s
guidance have been gained from the Holy Spirit concerning the many practical
ways that providing more benefits to more stakeholders enhances the value of what
the stakeholders contribute to making the company more effective. Such
increased stakeholder contributions, in turn, can power virtuous cycles of
expanded stakeholder and company capabilities, resources, accomplishments, and
benefits for sharing. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">To
demonstrate these perspectives concerning stakeholder value, each lesson
includes pertinent selections from the Bible and explains how they apply to
expanding value and improving stakeholders’ lives. The lessons also describe
ways that the interests and efforts of stakeholders and the company can be
aligned so closely that any improvements will automatically translate into much
more effectiveness and benefits for all.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Let
me also explain what I mean by “value.” When academics refer to shareholders,
this term has primarily come to mean having a higher current price for all of a
company’s shares. In ordinary speech, of course, value also suggests acquiring
something for less: a bargain. In contrast to the first two meanings, we often
think of a value as describing what we esteem for guiding our lives, regardless
of its current or potential financial worth. While this book often overtly
focuses on value in financial terms, either owning something that increases in economic
worth or acquiring offerings at less cost, the book also advances Biblical
values by basing the advice on the perspective of what God values. While we may
not know exactly how to measure value in God’s terms, we should certainly not
pay any less attention to advancing it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">For
instance, consider Jesus’ words in Matthew 6:24 (NKJV): <span class="woj">“No one
can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else
he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and
mammon.” (If you aren’t familiar with the word <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">mammon</i>, it refers in this context to worshiping <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">riches</i>, as though they were personified
as a god.) In relating ways to acquire more financial resources and pay less
for what is needed, we should always keep in mind that any such benefits should
be directed towards advancing God’s Kingdom, rather than some selfish purpose
of our own. Otherwise, we will simply be worshiping money rather than God, a great
sin. We should see using any money developed in this context as simply a means for
accomplishing that most important purpose, God’s will.</span></span></div>
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<span class="woj"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I mention this point now because I have seen variations of some
methods described in this book applied solely for selfish purposes. What’s the
lesson from such applications? I cannot recall seeing any lasting good come
from such misdirected uses. So I hope you will apply this information to demonstrate
God’s greatness to the world and to use the resources He supplies through these
methods to glorify Him while serving His purposes.</span></span></div>
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<span class="woj"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Other 400 Year Project books contain useful guidance for
ways to use increased resources for God’s purposes. If you aren’t yet familiar
with these books, I suggest that you read some or all of them before or while
you read and apply this book. A good starting point is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">2,000 Percent Living</i> (Salvation Press, 2010), which describes how
to be 20 times more fruitful for the Lord. If you want do delve deeper into the
subject of being fruitful, I also suggest <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Help
Wanted </i>(2,000 Percent Living Press, 2011). For those who want to focus on
witnessing, I recommend <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Witnessing Made
Easy</i> (Jubilee Worship Center Step by Step Press, 2010) and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ways You Can Witness</i> (Salvation Press,
2010). For anyone who wants to help make a whole nation more fruitful for the
Lord, be sure to read and apply <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The 2,000
Percent Nation</i> (400 Year Project Press, 2012). </span></span></div>
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<span class="woj"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">As you read about the many ways to increase value for all
stakeholders, you may find it helpful to think about how the knowledge could
help with increasing and improving a community of believers. Such a reference
should increase your focus on making fruitful use of what God provides through
these amazing methods, reducing your temptation to use the resources in un-Godly
ways.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">By
implementing the 50 lessons in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Advanced
Business: Exponentially Increase Stakeholder Value</i> in conjunction with the
50 lessons for expanding market growth, slashing costs, and eliminating
unnecessary investments in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Business
Basics</i> (400 Year Project Press, 2012), a company can increase total value
for its stakeholders by 160,000 or more times. Future volumes in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Advanced Business</i> series will
demonstrate how to build stakeholder value from this level to 3,200,000 or more
times through encouraging competitors to copy your innovations, and then by
64,000,000 or more times through also profiting from serving important social
needs. Be sure to read and apply these two additional sets of value-expanding
lessons when they become available!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">While
some might see these potential gains as either being impossible or not very probable,
keep in mind that the for-profit edition of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Excellent
Solutions</i> already provides two improvement processes that can be used to expand
stakeholder value by over ten trillion times. In addition, The 400 Year Project
has already produced such degrees of expanded benefits through the many people who
have applied its God-directed research.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Business Basics </span></i><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Advanced Business: Exponentially Increase
Stakeholder Value </i>can also be used as sources of helpful perspectives and
ideas for applying the astonishing value-expanding processes presented in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Excellent Solutions</i>. For instance,
lessons in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Business Basics</i> and the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Advanced Business</i> series can help identify
possible value elements to be included in an excellent solution that is developed
by using one of the two <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Excellent
Solutions</i> processes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Let
me explain other ways to use <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Business
Basics </i>and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Advanced Business:
Exponentially Increase Stakeholder Value</i> to create the stakeholder benefits
of an excellent solution. If any of the six complementary improvements described
in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Business Basics </i>or the three books
in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Advanced Business </i>books’<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>lessons is enhanced for a second time with
a new complementary 2,000 percent solution, total stakeholder value would
expand by 1.28 billion times. By sequentially improving any one of the six complementary
dimensions on four different occasions by 20 times each (or improving for a
second time any four of the combined six dimensions on one occasion by 20
times), total stakeholder value would then grow by 10 trillion times. By expanding
performance in these six complementary dimensions through the lessons supplied
in these books, most for-profit company leaders would be able to design and
implement such large value-improving solutions much more rapidly, with reduced
effort, and less expensively than by separately developing ten complementary 2,000
percent solutions to gain the same result.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">As
I discuss in <i>Adventures of an Optimist </i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">(Mitchell and Company Press, 2007)</span>, two other value dimensions that
are partially addressed in <i>Business Basics</i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">, </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Advanced Business:
Exponentially Increase Stakeholder Value</i>, and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Excellent Solutions </i>can also complement these six value dimensions:</span></div>
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Lower the cost of capital by 96 percent.</span></div>
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Engage many underutilized people (such as those who are unemployed or
underemployed) in highly productive activities.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">You can find more
information about the first of these two dimensions in some of this book’s
lessons concerning how to increase equity value. As you think about these ways
of expanding value by lowering the cost of capital, I’m sure your imagination
will be stimulated to identify still other opportunities. <i>Excellent
Solutions </i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">sufficiently </span>discusses
topics similar to the second of these two added dimensions to eliminate the
need for additional lessons here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Are
there any other complementary dimensions that a for-profit company can use as
performance enhancements for greatly expanding stakeholder value? Yes, I
believe that there are many more than just the two dimensions I’ve just
mentioned. I list here two more:</span></div>
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Invest in upgrading the skills, knowledge, and resources of many underdeveloped
people, especially those with little education and experience, so they can make
maximum contributions to all stakeholders and then continue operating in partnership
with those who can, as a result, accomplish still more.</span></div>
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Redirect the public’s agenda, attention, and resources into improving or
increasing highly valuable activities and resources at little cost.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Feel free to add any
other complementary performance dimensions that you prefer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Let
me also note that this book is about for-profit businesses. However, aspects of
the discussions about increasing stakeholder value are equally, if not more,
applicable to nonprofit organizations. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">If
you have questions or would like to discuss any of these dimensions, processes,
or methods, please send an e-mail to askdonmitchell@yahoo.com/.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">To
make the lessons in this book easier to understand and use, they are divided
into eight parts, which concern the following subjects:</span></div>
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What stakeholder benefits to provide</span></div>
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How investors assess value</span></div>
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Business strategies that add value</span></div>
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Operating methods that increase value</span></div>
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Human-resources practices for growing value</span></div>
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Financial techniques for boosting value</span></div>
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Communications procedures for value expansion</span></div>
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Identifying the optimal value-improvement program</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I encourage you to
direct your colleagues to those parts that will be most relevant to their
responsibilities. Doing so will make it easier to redirect your activities in
the most fruitful ways.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Let
me briefly explain the potential benefits of studying and applying each part.
Some readers will not be able to fully identify who a for-profit company’s
stakeholders are and what kinds of benefits are usually most available and
appropriate to provide and increase for each one. Reading the first part will
eliminate any of such knowledge gaps. With a broader perspective concerning who
is to gain value and of what sort, studying the subsequent lessons will be
enriched by appreciating more kinds of useful applications.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Improving
value for shareholders can be a key ingredient for expanding value for other
stakeholders, as well. In particular, for-profit companies can use stock-price expansion
to create financial resources other stakeholders can use to add value beyond
what the company can do directly. Paying attention to this subject has another
benefit: Many people have not been exposed to the most accurate information
about how investors decide whether to purchase, hold, or sell an equity security.
Naturally, those who normally don’t think about financial markets have even
less knowledge on this subject. The second part’s lessons in this regard are
simple enough to be helpful to such readers. In addition, the lessons address
common misunderstandings found among some of those who are literate, as well as
expert, concerning financial markets. Even if you have earned a finance degree
in business school, you may find some of this information expanding the ways
you can apply your knowledge.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Traditionally,
business strategy has emphasized outperforming competitors in profiting from
attracting and retaining customers. In doing so, potential effects on many
types of stakeholders have too often been ignored. For example, just think
about how discarded water bottles might eventually cover an ocean’s surface
from continent to continent if different approaches aren’t adopted. Consider,
too, how a better kind of bottle floating in those waters could conceivably be
designed to dissolve and supply helpful nutrients for making the oceans more bountiful.
As this example shows, examining business strategy in the context of expanding
value for all stakeholders often leads to applying quite different concepts and
means for implementing them. In the third part, you will find your perspective
on business strategy redirected into such broader and more fruitful directions.
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Conventional
approaches to examining business operations have emphasized increasing
accounting profits, operating cash flows, returns on capital or equity, or similar
financial metrics discounted into the future. In seeking such financial goals,
many companies have actually reduced total stakeholder benefits, sometimes
intentionally and other times accidentally. Some leaders who intended to expand
shareholder value have been subsequently disappointed by their resulting stock
prices. In the fourth part, we look at business operating methods that many executives
do not realize can produce substantial benefits for all stakeholders, while
also increasing financial returns.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Human-resources
practices are usually aimed at achieving a narrow set of financial goals. In the
fifth part, we look more broadly at how stakeholder value can be expanded by
pursuing more appropriate goals, as well as how employees and employees’
families can be better served in ways that will also increase company
effectiveness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">While
many executives see the term <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">value</i> as
being synonymous with financial measures, most companies still ignore many powerful
financial opportunities that could have huge positive impacts on monetary value
for stakeholders. As an example of such a narrow focus, many companies for
which I have consulted once saw the role of the financial staff as merely to find
profit-expanding accounting methods and obtain low-cost loans. In the sixth
part, we demonstrate the much greater potential of finance to complement what
the rest of the organization and its stakeholders are accomplishing. While some
of this material will only seem appropriate for financial executives, I
encourage all readers to gain a conceptual understanding of the possibilities
from these lessons, so that they can advocate more appropriate roles for financial
executives in increasing stakeholder value.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Company
leaders have always been concerned about not disclosing sensitive information
beyond those with a need to know. In some cases, such concerns relate to
keeping competitors in the dark to gain or retain an advantage in the
marketplace. In other instances, the difficulties of correctly anticipating the
future make leaders reluctant to make public commitments that they might not be
able to keep. In still other circumstances, some have not appreciated the potential
value of communicating more fully, incorrectly seeing this activity as
relatively unimportant. In particular, almost all companies are ignorant of the
value-improvement potential of assembling the right group of shareholders. The
seventh part explains the critical roles for communications in expanding
stakeholder benefits. We also look at what kind of shareholders to seek and
encourage. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Having
read my brief comments about the lessons in the first seven parts, your head
may be filled with unanswered questions about how to implement what you will learn:
where to start, which directions to take, and the right order for your actions.
It’s natural to have such a reaction. You have an almost infinite number of
choices. Yet only a tiny fraction of 1 percent of these actions and the permutations
for sequencing them will lead to huge increases in value for all stakeholders.
In the eighth part of the book, I describe a proven, long-practiced method for
developing and applying the necessary information to make the optimal choices. Unlike
many other decision processes involving complicated choices, the one described
in the eighth part is quite easy to understand, learn, and apply. In fact, after
the necessary information is in place, most leaders will be able to develop and
evaluate high-value choices quite quickly and accurately without assistance
from anyone with special technical skills or experience.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">By
the time you finish reading <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Advanced
Business: Exponentially Increase Stakeholder Value</i>, your perspective for
what it means to “do business” will have permanently become more fruitful. You
will understand many new ways for stakeholders to make unique and important
contributions to your firm’s success and enhance value for all. In addition,
you’ll see how the task of effectively leading a company is made much easier by
doing more for stakeholders. Shifting to this approach will feel as if a large
number of people have suddenly started lifting their fair share of the heavy
weight you have been carrying alone: Your burden in increasing stakeholder
value will be much less, and you’ll be highly encouraged to have so many
helpers assisting with any new loads.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Be
sure to read the Appendix, as well, where I describe my Christian experiences
and testimony. Feel free to share this information with anyone you feel would
benefit from learning about how God has touched and improved my life. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">We
now begin in Part One by looking at what stakeholder benefits to provide.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Part One: What
Stakeholder Benefits to Provide</span></b></div>
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Suppliers</span></span><b><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 24.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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Benefits for Company Shareholders</span></div>
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Benefits for Lenders and Lessors</span></div>
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Benefits for Neighbors</span></div>
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Benefits for Communities</span></div>
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Investors Assess Value</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Lesson Twelve: Valuation
Methods</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Lesson Thirteen: Factors
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Value Sensitivities</span></div>
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Accelerate Improvement</span></div>
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Business Model That Is Expandable in Several Dimensions</span></span></div>
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Business with Significant Cost and Value Advantages</span></span></div>
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Complementary Businesses to Overcome Weaknesses in Both</span></div>
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Offerings Stakeholders Regularly Experience and Like</span></div>
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Stakeholders Squirm</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Lesson Twenty-One: Be a
Franchisor</span></div>
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Licensor</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Lesson Twenty-Three: Be
Based Where Owners Will Pay the Most</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Lesson Twenty-Four: How
2,000 Percent Solutions Affect Value</span></div>
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to Pick 2,000 Percent Solutions That Improve Value</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Lesson Twenty-Six: Demonstrate
How to Overcome Apparent Growth and Profit Limitations</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Lesson Twenty-Seven: Change
Value Forms to Stimulate Management</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Lesson Twenty-Eight:
Add Critical Skills and Knowledge before Competitors</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Lesson Twenty-Nine: Quickly
Identify and Remedy Harmful Errors</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Lesson Thirty: Put
Leaders in More Appropriate Roles</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Lesson Thirty-One: Employ
Valuable Cross-Ownership among Stakeholders</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Lesson Thirty-Two:
Finance Growth with Customer Advances</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Lesson Thirty-Three:
Minimize Taxes for All Stakeholders</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Lesson Thirty-Four:
Turn Volatility to Your Advantage</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Lesson Thirty-Five: Use
Futures Contracts to Enhance Attractiveness</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Lesson Thirty-Six:
Offer Convertible Securities</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Lesson Thirty-Seven:
Pay Extraordinary Dividends in Low Interest-Rate Environments</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Lesson Thirty-Eight:
Create and Maintain a Perfect Balance of Investors</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Lesson Thirty-Nine: Identify
and Attract Supportive Investors</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Lesson Forty: Influence
Expectations</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Lesson Forty-One: Inspire
Confidence</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Lesson Forty-Two:
Continually Attract Investors to Special-Situation Opportunities</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Lesson Forty-Three:
Clearly Signal What’s Coming</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Lesson Forty-Four: Continually
Draw in New Stakeholders</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Part Eight: Identifying the Optimal Value-Improvement
Program</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Lesson Forty-Five: Plan
a Value-Improvement Program</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Lesson Forty-Six: Start
Your Value-Improvement Program with Stakeholder Conversations</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Lesson Forty-Seven:
Determine Your Valuation Correlations and Sensitive Actions</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Lesson Forty-Eight:
Prepare and Analyze Relevant Case Histories for Sensitive Actions</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Lesson Forty-Nine:
Analyze Stakeholder Conversations, Verified Correlations, and Case Histories to
Create a Value-Improvement Program</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Lesson Fifty: Next
Steps for Implementing Your Value-Improvement Program</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Appendix: Donald
Mitchell’s Testimony</span></i><b><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 24.0pt;"><br /></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 24.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 24.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 24.0pt;">Part
One</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 24.0pt;">What
Stakeholder Benefits to Provide</span></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">You
have increased the nation, O LORD,</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">You
have increased the nation;</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">You
are glorified;</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">You
have expanded</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">all
the borders of the land</span></i><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">—
Isaiah 26:15 (NKJV)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Let me remind you that
in referring to stakeholders I mean to include <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">all </i>those who substantially contribute to, benefit from, or are
affected by a company and its actions: end users, customers, customers’
customers, distributors, dealers, agents, suppliers, suppliers’ suppliers,
employees, employees’ families, partners, shareholders, lenders, lessors,
neighbors, the communities in which the firm operates, and anyone else who is
significantly impacted by what the company does. Although most of these
stakeholders have no ownership in the company, be sure to consider how
encouraging and facilitating such ownership could be an effective way to expand
stakeholder value for many more people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Here
are a few of the possible stakeholder-value improvements to help you begin to appreciate
what benefits could be provided:</span></div>
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End users can gain knowledge and practical advantages that expand the types,
quantities, and usefulness of the benefits they receive from the company’s offerings.
Readers who successfully apply the lessons in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Advanced Business: Exponentially Increase Stakeholder Value<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> </span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">will have received one kind of </span>substantial value improvement
from this book.</span></div>
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Similar effects can also occur for your customers and their customers, often in
terms of their obtaining greater numbers of and more profitable customers for
their own organizations, along with knowledge and practical advantages that can
be used to increase the value of what your customers provide to their own customers
and end users.</span></div>
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Distributors, dealers, and agents can gain from having more appealing offerings
that add much increased value for those they distribute to, deal with, and sell
to, as well as for their own organizations.</span></div>
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Suppliers and their suppliers can benefit from becoming vastly more effective,
often gaining market share by selling more to your company, as well as to your
competitors.</span></div>
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Employees can see their lives improve through sharing in some of the company’s
success while enjoying better, more satisfying working conditions, career opportunities,
and personal lives.</span></div>
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Employees’ families can experience better lives through any increased time they
can spend with the employee, a better working environment for employees that
facilitates improved family relationships, any company-provided
family-enhancing benefits, and whatever increased income and wealth the employee
obtains that is used for the family’s benefit.</span></div>
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Partners can gain wealth and knowledge to apply in their own businesses through
ownership and participation in joint ventures, as well as through investments
in and with your company.</span></div>
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Shareholders can be directly enriched through the expanded value of their
equity ownership. The value growth from an initial investment of $10,000 in an advanced-business
company can be sufficient to support many future generations of the equity
owner’s family.</span></div>
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Lenders will have less risk of not being repaid, as well as an opportunity to
share in the expanded ownership value of your company whenever your company borrows
money through debt instruments that are convertible into equity.</span></div>
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Lessors can enjoy similar benefits to those gained by lenders, while also
gaining the opportunity to do more business with your organization.</span></div>
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Neighbors and the communities you serve can benefit from your company
eliminating any problems it causes while these stakeholders can also receive new
benefits designed to make it more attractive for the company, its employees,
and neighbors to spend time in the vicinity of the company’s activities.</span></div>
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Anyone else substantially affected by your company can gain from any negative
effects being eliminated, receiving more of any existing benefits, and gaining
access to any new benefits.</span></div>
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I mention in the Introduction, please note that effectively adding such
stakeholder benefits can be done in ways that greatly expand profits, cash
flow, and ownership value for your company. Such consequences follow because these
sorts of stakeholder benefits also increase stakeholders’ interest in, types of
activities for, and effectiveness in usefully contributing to your company’s
success. Keep these connections in mind as you look for such ways to add to
stakeholder value.</span></div>
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Lesson One, we look at enhancing the economic value of benefits received by end
users of a company’s offerings. End users are those who actually employ what
your company offers, rather than either selling or providing the offering to
someone else. Ways to increase such value include adding more helpful features
and qualities to an offering, making it easier or less costly to gain benefits from
using the offering, and enhancing the ability of end users to gain full
advantage from using the offering. Consequently, your company will benefit from
their expanded usage.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In
Lesson Two, we consider what can be done to increase value for customers and
their customers so that they will greatly expand their purchases. We study
transferring knowledge, as well as at supplying offerings so valuable that they
almost automatically enhance value for customers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">During
Lesson Three, we examine improving relationships with distributors, dealers,
and agents. Instead of the company and these stakeholders taking a
self-centered, short-term focus, such relationships should take a long-term
perspective on becoming more mutually rewarding. Doing so means finding
important values that distributors, dealers, and agents can provide to enhance benefits
for customers and end users. Upgrading the effectiveness of such organizations
can also be done less expensively by allowing them to obtain stock options in
your company tied to their excellent performance. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Adding
value for suppliers and their suppliers is the topic of Lesson Four. Many times
your organization will not be able to add much more value for stakeholders
unless suppliers provide you with goods and services that allow you to effectively
enhance your capabilities and choices. In this lesson, we reverse the focus
from Lesson Two on how to add value to customers to look, instead, into the
supply chain to see what can be done there by your organization that will
ultimately improve benefits for your customers and end users.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Lesson Five considers
ways to better compensate employees in ways that will increase the firm’s value.
In addition, we look at how to overcome the most common causes of employee
complaints: lack of respect from supervisors, inadequate preparation and
insufficient resources to do a good job, overly demanding work environments,
unrealistic expectations for the employee’s performance, and unpleasant
relations with peers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In
Lesson Six, we discuss improving the impact of the employees’ work on their
families. This lesson describes ways that a company can make it possible for
families to enhance their lives in all dimensions, from the spiritual to dealing
with worldly problems.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Using
partnerships to add more value is Lesson Seven’s topic. Adding complementary
skills, knowledge, and resources can lead to huge value improvements. However,
such partnerships too often focus on outperforming the competition at the
expense of adding more value for other stakeholders. We look at the importance
of changing the focus of partnerships in this lesson.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">For
Lesson Eight, we explore the effects on shareholders of accomplishing the
stock-price-value improvement goal of the fourth complementary 2,000 percent
solution. This lesson also discusses the need for owners to understand the
importance of adding stakeholder value for one and all. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Benefits
for lenders and lessors is the topic of Lesson Nine. Creating a more
financially sound organization with much enhanced access to low-cost capital
decreases risk for lenders and lessors. By allowing these stakeholders to
participate in your expansion of shareholder value, you can enrich their
organizations while also expanding how much profitable business you provide to your
lenders and lessors.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Lesson
Ten considers neighbors and how they can benefit from your company seeking to
add value for them. Opportunities exist to reduce negative impacts, increase
the value of real estate they own, and provide other noneconomic benefits, such
as more desirable choices of residences and neighborhoods. Companies benefit by
having fewer restrictions placed on them and being able to enter new
neighborhoods more easily and less expensively. </span></div>
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Lesson Eleven, we complete this part by looking at ideas and examples of what
companies and their leaders can do to enhance value for the communities in
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<b><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 24.0pt;">Stakeholder
Benefits for</span></b></div>
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<span class="woj"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Give, and it will be
given to you:</span></i></span></div>
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<span class="woj"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">good measure, pressed
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<span class="woj"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">and running over will
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<span class="woj"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">For with the same
measure that you use,</span></i></span></div>
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<span class="woj"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">it will be measured
back to you</span></i></span><span class="woj"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">”</i></span></span><i><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></i></div>
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Luke 6:38 (NKJV)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">End users of offerings
can be individuals, families, small groups, nonprofit organizations, and governments,
as well as for-profit companies. How might end users gain immense increases in
the value of their benefits? While there are many potential value-improvement
triggers for end users, including customers and other stakeholders teaching end
users how to increase all forms of stakeholder value, value increases more
typically occur due to your company or the end user’s supplier providing
offerings that automatically deliver either all or most of the value improvement.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Let
me supply an example related to 2,000 percent solutions (ways of accomplishing
20 times more with the same or less time, effort, and resources, as described
in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The 2,000 Percent Solution</i>,
AMACOM, 1999). If I write a book that tells end users how to make 160,000 times
more profits (as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The 2,000 Percent
Squared Solution</i> does by directing that the lessons in the book be repeated
for expanding revenues by 20 times and reducing costs by 20 times), end users
who buy, read, successfully apply, and keep effectively reapplying the lessons
of that book can eventually enjoy 160,000 times more profits. In the process,
the economic values of their businesses would typically increase by about
160,000 times, as well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Now,
let’s now consider working on expanding cash flow by 64,000,000 times, such as
by repeatedly applying the lessons in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Business
Basics</i>. When done correctly, cash flow will increase by that amount, as
will the economic values of the businesses to which the lessons were applied.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
offering doesn’t have to be a product to cause large value increases. The
offering can be a service. Let’s consider The Billionaire Entrepreneurs’ Master
Mind. After learning how to expand the market and revenues by 20 times and to reduce
costs by 96 percent for each offering, end users of this service who apply the
lessons can gain 400 times more profits. If end users then also learn and apply
how to reduce investment intensity by 96 percent, their cash flow also
increases by 8,000 times (a 20-fold increase over just applying the first two
complementary 2,000 percent solutions). Putting in place a third such
improvement will equate to adding another 20 times increase in economic value
for end users over the two complementary solutions. If end users then
successfully reapply each of the three lessons twice, their cash flow expands
by another 511,999,992,000 times. And the master mind doesn’t charge
511,999,992,000 times more … so the value for members of The Billionaire
Entrepreneurs’ Master Mind compared to the cost in time, effort, and money just
keeps getting better and better as they apply more of what they learn.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">These
product and service examples relate to knowledge transfer for end uses. Benefit
transfers through offerings that add stakeholder value can be more direct than
that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Here’s
a product example. The Amazon.com Kindle reader and the company’s support
systems for producing and distributing written materials have revolutionized
the potential for someone to learn. On a Kindle reader, hundreds of books can
be stored and easily accessed for comparing one source to another. The type
size can be adjusted to make reading easier. Each book costs less because it is
in a digital version. Because a whole library is now portable, study can be
done in more environments, including while traveling or during breaks at work.
If we include the value of the space-saving feature of substituting for
physical books to reduce how much office or living space someone needs, the
economic benefits are undoubtedly much greater than 20 times the cost of a
Kindle for anyone engaged in a learning project, such as writing a thesis or
dissertation. And to gain the benefit, a learner just has to buy and use the
product and related books in this form. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Let’s
look at a service example of direct increases in the value of benefits. Imagine
that an end user’s supplier has valuable rights that the end user is allowed to
exercise. Such rights might involve being able to share valuable information with
other people in a network, perhaps something like an individual controlling a Facebook-like
page on an access-controlled network that provides large numbers of people with
extremely easy ways to share highly useful information. Another analogy might
be a Web site on an Internet-like network accessible by specialized search
engines capable of always taking you to exactly where you need to go. In such
cases, the supplier’s network is made more valuable by having more end users who
share greater amounts of helpful information. The same value-multiplying effect
on benefits also applies to the supplier’s ownership value.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">A
practical example of this service concept would be a highly efficient branded
cooperative that made small companies more effective. The cooperative might do
almost everything for the small companies except actually deal with their
customers. As a result, each end-user company would gain the same low-cost benefits
as everyone else in the cooperative, while also benefiting from owning part of
the cooperative. The value of each end user’s company could then expand even
more if the cooperative could legally assign territories so that the number of end-user
companies was held at the optimum level relative to the number of their
customers and prospects. In a country that lacked enough qualified providers of
a certain essential type (such as plumbers, for instance), such a cooperative might
also be able to advocate more appropriate standards for government licensing and
gain a virtual monopoly over training providers. If done properly, the
cooperative might help a youth with no skills become the successful owner of a
highly profitable and rapidly growing business.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">You
can see from many of these examples that gaining a 20-times value enhancement
for end users will not always be automatic. There may be some learning,
thinking, and working involved for the end users. In many cases, it may well be
that the supplier’s supplier (and so on) will have to play an important role in
creating the step-up value for the end user before the large increase in
economic value will occur.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Think
of the potential. If an end user can gain 20 times more economic value from an
offering, the value of the end user’s activities related to the offering are
often going to go up by more than 20 times the combination of the offering’s
value, plus the time, money, and effort involved in using it. When that’s the
case, what are end users going to do? Well, they are probably going to find a
way to buy and use more offerings from the supplier. When that happens, the end
user’s economic value will continue to soar in exponential ways. It’s like
having the ability to turn lead into gold at little or no cost.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">What
can end users do with that potential? They can cut costs of what they do by 20
times. They can work 96 percent less. They can increase their incomes by 20
times. They can invest 20 times more. And so on. The choice is the end user’s. Such
flexibility should make a person feel more peaceful before going to sleep each
night.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">You
may be wondering how all of this potential applies to those who have no
enterprise to benefit from using offering enhancements. In such cases, freed-up
time can be used to engage in other personally or economically valuable
activities. Or for someone who feels he or she has enough personal value in
hand, the time can be solely applied to being more fruitful for the Lord.
Naturally, the potential value increase will not always be realized unless end
users are provided with information and encouragement to make constructive use
of whatever value they obtain.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: #38761d;">The 400 Year Project is pleased to announce the completion of drafting for the companion volume to <i>Excellent Solutions</i>, <i>Excellent Leadership</i>. Dr. Elijah Chingosho, Secretary General of the African Airlines Association, has kindly agreed to author the book's Foreword. <i>Excellent Leadership</i>
will help individuals identify their callings for working on excellent
solutions and prepare them to be highly fruitful in these activities. </span></span></span></b></span><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: #38761d;"> Publication is expected to occur in March 2015. </span></span></span></b></span>The book will be available in paperback and electronic form. </span> </span></span></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: blue;">The paperback For-Profit Edition of <i>Excellent Solutions</i> is now available for purchase at Amazon.com, other online book sites, as well as book stores.</span> Here is the ISBN identifier to help you locate the correct edition of the book: </span></b></span><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><span style="color: black;">1499378696. Here is the link for the Amazon.com page:</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><span style="color: black;">http://www.amazon.com/Excellent-Solutions--Profit-Greater-Fruitfulness/dp/1499378696/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1406598686&sr=1-1</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><span style="color: black;">We are
working on a short book trailer for this edition that should be
available soon. I'll add that link to this post as soon as the trailer
is done. </span></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: magenta;">The Nonprofit Edition in paperback and digital versions is also now available on Amazon.com </span>as follows:</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><span style="color: black;">The ISBN identifier for the nonprofit edition is</span></b></span><b> 978-1493625444</b><b>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>Unique, New Book Provides Directions for
Highly Fruitful Solutions to Meet and Upgrade All of Life's Spiritual
and Material Needs by Using Your Currently Available Resources</b></span></div>
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WESTON, Mass., June 10, 2014 /<a href="http://christiannewswire.com/">Christian Newswire</a>/ -- The 400 Year Project founder, Donald W. Mitchell, launches his latest book, <i>Excellent Solutions: How to Apply God's Wisdom for Greater Fruitfulness</i>.
Two versions are available – one for nonprofit organizations and the
other for for-profit companies. The 400 Year Project is a Christian
initiative to increase global fruitfulness by at least 20 times.<br />
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News reports reveal that many people
lack some of the basics for sustaining a healthy and productive life:
clean water, food, medicine, shelter, education, and a job. Some people
who are well supplied with the basics recall times when their own
circumstances were more favorable than now and are discouraged about the
future. Others are concerned that some people seem determined to harm
as many other people as possible and personally live in fear.<br />
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<i>Excellent Solutions</i> shows that
there is more than sufficient time, effort, physical resources, and
money available to greatly improve the spiritual, moral, health,
emotional, and physical circumstances of almost everyone on Earth. While
some make that argument based on redistributing what those with more
have to those who have less, <i>Excellent Solutions</i> encourages, instead, upgrading what we all do and how we conduct our lives to provide such benefits.<br />
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Mitchell described the writing
experience as follows: "God through the Holy Spirit provided the
revelations and inspirations that made this book possible. I happily
give Him thanks and gratefully acknowledge that He deserves all the
credit for the remarkable methods He revealed to me. Please join me in
praising Him!"</div>
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<b><span style="color: red;">First Review of <i>Excellent Solutions </i></span></b><br />
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Foreword Clarion Review<br />
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Five Stars (out of Five)<br />
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Mitchell avoids narrow ideas, encourages positive thinking, and sets large goals to make the biggest possible spiritual and social impact.<br /><br />In Excellent Solutions: Nonprofit Edition, Donald Mitchell proposes to prove “that there is more than sufficient time, effort, physical resources, and money available to greatly improve the spiritual, moral, health, emotional, and physical circumstances of almost everyone on Earth.” That is a significant challenge for an author to take on, but Mitchell’s thorough and optimistic presentation provides a commendable and thoughtful plan for nonprofit organizations to follow as they strive to make important and lasting impacts on individuals and society.<br /><br />Mitchell breaks his process into four stages, each with its own section: “Set Goals for Excellent Solutions,” “Eliminate ‘Stalled’ Thinking,” “Create and Implement an Excellent Solution,” and “Create and Implement an Excellent Solution By Using a Second Method.”<br /><br />“Excellent solutions” are those that reach beyond simplistic answers and blossom exponentially into far-reaching, positive actions without significantly increasing the initial effort. He begins with the<br />essential element of goal-setting, but as is the case with all thirty-one of his lessons, Mitchell stresses the need to think in terms of goals that are not limited by negativity or narrow focus.<br /><br />Mitchell excels at turning potentially complex ideas into easily understood steps that he reinforces with biblical passages, personal examples, and engaging explanations that communicate his points clearly without coming across as condescendingly simplistic. Rather, his style conveys the feeling of a favorite uncle teaching a child about important life lessons while giving constant encouragement. For example, near the end of one teaching segment, he writes, “When you have finished the five tasks, please accept my congratulations for having done so much valuable thinking.”<br /><br />Biblical references and scripture passages abound, and Mitchell craftily uses them to support his concepts and to emphasize that his plan is biblically sound. His passion for his Christian principles and his belief in their ability to change the world, particularly through the effectiveness and excellent solutions of nonprofits, resonates throughout his writing. He does not simply want nonprofits to be successful in secular terms, but also in spiritual matters.<br /><br />Excellent Solutions is packed with useful and clearly explained information, but Mitchell adds a creative twist that gives the 450-plus page book some visually inspiring moments. Before each lesson, he inserts an incredibly beautiful full-color nature photo by Derrick Z. Jackson. Whether intentional or not, these brilliant pictures inspire reflection on creation’s beauty around the world, subtly reinforcing Mitchell’s global concepts.<br /><br />Mitchell practices what he teaches. He avoids narrow ideas, encourages positive thinking, and sets large goals to make the biggest possible spiritual and social impact—precisely what Excellent Solutions is all about.<br /><br />Jeff Friend<br /><br />
<span style="color: red;"><b>Advance Praise for Excellent Solutions</b></span><br />
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What’s
the world coming to? If you follow some form of media news outlet, you
will acknowledge that large portions of the world’s populace expect only
increased difficulty, strife, terror, chaos, and disaster. So many
either join the turmoil or sneak off into some private refuge, content
with their games, distractions, and preoccupations. So much for
positive, purposeful living.<br />
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What I love about Don Mitchell’s approach to life is that anything and
everything good that pertains to human flourishing is within the realm
of reasonable and reachable. But attaining such fruitfulness is not
dependent on Don’s intelligence or methodology or wisdom. Rather, it is
in the nature and character of God, whose love for any and all people is
real and powerful and available. As a result, Don helps us get a handle
on God’s wisdom and helps us translate it into fruitful living.<br />
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This book busts the traps and boxes into which we unwittingly fall prey.
Our thinking and our living are invited to fresh, rich levels of
expression. The “number of our days” may be limited, but the difference
we make and the contribution we offer to the world are unleashed.
Instead of being part of the problem, we can learn from<i> Excellent Solutions </i>how to become increasingly part of the solution, part of God’s good, global solution.<br />
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— Pastor Doug Whallon<br />
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This wonderful book is a comprehensive guide for finding excellent
solutions by applying God’s Wisdom for greater fruitfulness through
upgrading what we all do and how we conduct our lives and thus turn
well-justified hope into huge accomplishments.<br />
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— Dr. Elijah Chingosho, Secretary General, African Airlines Association<br />
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A formidable synthesis of management thought, personal psychology, and
organizational behavior, all informed by Christian beliefs. This
insightful work lays the foundation for truly excellent solutions. Don
Mitchell again points the way to a better personal and organizational
life.<br />
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— Wayne P. Jones, PhD, Executive in Residence, Professor of Marketing, College of Business,<br />
University of Louisville<br />
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The story of doubt and stalled faith told by John, a contemporary of
Jesus, enlightens our understanding of the loving care and creative
power of the TriUnity of God (John 6:1-15). John’s story is situated in a
time in Israel where many thousands of marginalized people sought a
better solution from a rabbi named Jesus. “When Jesus looked out and saw
that a large crowd had arrived, he said to Philip, ‘Where can we buy
bread to feed these people?’ He said this to stretch Philip’s faith. He
already knew what he was going to do.” (MSG). Even if there was enough
bread in the nearest town, there was not enough money to buy bread for
so many people. That would be our stalled thinking. But divine wisdom is
not shackled by limited vision. Five barley loaves and two dried fish
from a little boy would be more than enough. Jesus demonstrates this
creative power of faith in God. This seed of faith (a hopeless resource
for some) possesses an explosive power for regeneration. It generously
feeds the many who seek a better solution in Jesus and graciously leaves
more leftovers<br />
for others.<br />
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Don Mitchell taps the divine seed of power by exploring how heavenly
wisdom is radically different from our own worldly assumptions and then
discovers that hidden in this seed is the power for a new creation.<br />
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— Stephan Earnhart, follower of Jesus serving the needs of a broken humanity, hotelier, and educator<br />
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<i>Excellent Solutions</i> unlocks the secrets to living profoundly by
explaining how to tap into your passions and be in sync with what the
Lord wants you to do. By following the roadmap laid out by 2,000 percent
solution guru Don Mitchell, you, too, can experience the more
productive, happier existence that Jesus Christ wants you to enjoy.
Instead of just getting by, you’ll be wonderfully supercharged because
your actions will be aligned with the teachings of Christianity.<br />
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— Ira McCown, investment banker and entrepreneur<br />
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With his customary modesty, Donald Mitchell describes his special gift
from God: “He made me very curious about ways to find more and better
solutions to difficult and painful problems.”<br />
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Readers who have benefited from Mitchell’s previous books would add that
he writes with compelling clarity. Never one to leave a point
unexplained, he elaborates: “Here’s an example,” “Let me spell out what
this may look like,” “Let me give you an example,” and interjects many
other transitions that become road signs toward insight. He keeps
readers captivated and informed through simple illustrations that unlock
profound truths.<br />
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<i>Excellent Solutions</i> emerges as his masterpiece on the theme he considers his God-given mission. Definitely, the book’s subtitle — <i>How to Apply God’s Wisdom for Greater Fruitfulness</i> — does morethan challenge readers. The phrase encapsulates what the author has accomplished in this epochal book.<br />
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— Bill Lampton, PhD, President, Championship Communication<br />
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In <i>Excellent Solutions</i>, Donald Mitchell has combined the
knowledge and wisdom of the Bible with the stallbusting principles of
his 2,000 percent solution to arrive at a magnificent work that teaches
us how, through God’s guidance, we can arrive at a sequence of change
and action to produce excellent solutions that will multiply benefits in
our lives and businesses and thereby create greater fruitfulness for
all.<br />
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— Dr. Andreas Stark, professional geophysicist and author<br />
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I’ve known Don Mitchell for at least a decade, and have always personally known and admired the strength of his character.<i> Excellent Solutions </i>presents
a new and expansive vision of Don Mitchell. Those who know him
personally have not been surprised to watch him evolve into one of the
top Christian business minds in America.<br />
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<i>Excellent Solutions</i> allows Don to be recognized not only for his
experience as a business leader and forward-thinking problem solver, but
as an ongoing Christian learner who can integrate and implement plans
and actions based upon teachings of the scripture. Through development
of a plan, analysis of what has been done previously, and focus on
creating the best opportunities, Mitchell helps us to look at ourselves
and our approaches to problem solving in ways that allow us to
continually multiply and enhance solutions to challenges we face. I’m
proud to know Don and call him a Christian friend. May his work bless
your life, and the future work you do.<br />
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— Alan Guinn, CEO and Managing Director of The Guinn Consultancy Group, Inc.<br />
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Are we really happy with our life, our family, our business, and our
friends? No matter how successful we are, we are all performing way
below our achievable potential. More happiness and more success are
within reach of all of us but we do not see it, we do not know how; we
are blind and ignorant. Life is beautiful but we have to make it
beautiful.<br />
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If you believe in God, by applying God’s Wisdom you will find answers to
all your problems. God’s Wisdom will open your eyes and your mind and
will help you to achieve exponential success.<br />
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Don Mitchell in his new book, <i>Excellent Solutions</i>, combines with
talent God’s guidance and stallbusting principles. This outstanding
resourceful book will help you to free your life from stalls to find new
strengths to go beyond your expectations.<br />
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— Alain Pierre Mignon, PhD, CEO, PT Fratekindo Jaya Gemilang, and
Chairman of the French-Indonesian Chamber of Commerce & Industry<br />
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Don’s motto in life comes from Luke 12:48: “To whom much is given, much is expected.” His book, <i>Excellent Solutions</i>, is a must read for us all if we are to make a difference in our own lives and the lives of others.<br />
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— Patrick Crowley, Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer, OMERS<br />
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Don Mitchell is a gifted writer and a brilliant thinker. Therefore it is no surprise that <i>Excellent Solutions</i>
gives readers deep insights into behavior change. Regardless of your
religious beliefs, implementing just one idea from this book will have a
profound impact on your life and the lives of others.<br />
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— Stephen Shapiro, Author, <i>Best Practices Are Stupid</i><br />
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We all limit ourselves from achieving exceptional results. We take on what others desire and fear. Unnecessarily. <i>Excellent Solutions </i>frees you to think for yourself in highly productive ways.<br />
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— Ania Lichota, executive coach and author<br />
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<i>Excellent Solutions</i> takes the reader to a new level of
consciousness about improving their own lot as well as those around
them, and its “how to do it” approach provides the tools.<br />
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Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20015576.post-69931333876043412362013-05-29T14:30:00.001-07:002013-05-29T14:30:12.429-07:00What Business Should You Start?<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>At the beginning of the course I teach about starting a
successful business, I ask businesspeople to pose the single most important
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businesspeople don’t yet know. Before the first class ends I also provide an
answer for each question, promising to expand on what I say in future classes
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questions vary a great deal in their scope and specificity. For instance, some
people will invariably just want the answer to some sliver of technical
information, such how to best organize paying sales taxes. Typically, such
questions don’t have much potential impact on the person’s future success.
Rather, these questions show a lack of research skills and relationships with
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the other end of the spectrum, some people will pose the most fundamental and
broad questions. My favorite of such queries is: “Should I start any new
business?” I appreciate that question because the role of being a successful
entrepreneur is often quite different from what a certain individual would like
to do. It would be a shame for such a person to spend many years working hard
at something that always feels unrewarding while accomplishing less than those
who have a more natural bent to take the right actions.</span></div>
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and what’s required of them to succeed in the new business, they usually ask
another important question: “What business should I start?”</span></div>
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taking into account differences among individuals who ask this question,
experts still widely vary in the advice they provide. If you doubt me on this
point, just read a few of the many autobiographies where entrepreneurs extol
the unique benefits that only their kind of business provides, why everyone else
should want those benefits, and what’s needed to gain them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Wiser,
more humble, heads keep more open minds on the point. While I could certainly
share my own views based on teaching many successful students as well as being
an entrepreneur, I think you will learn more by hearing from one of my
students, Dr. David Penn. His entrepreneurial successes span the globe and
impress all those who know him. Unlike many other entrepreneurs David’s
personal life is also world-class. I think of him as a world leader in having
it all together as an entrepreneur, as well as a human being. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">His
accomplishments are all the more impressive when you consider that he encountered
more difficulties than advantages as a youngster. I won’t go into all those
circumstances here. If you are interested, I recommend that you read my 2008
article, “A Bullied Child, Abandoned at Birth, Becomes a Global Leader in
Dental Health Innovation and Education,” which can be found on many Internet
sites. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">David
proposes five principles for which business an entrepreneur should choose to start:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">1.
Requirements for performing the business well should closely match your
education, experience, knowledge, and skills.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">2. Invest
abundantly in your own time and efforts at first while spending as little money
as possible.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">3.
Build huge competitive advantages that can be scaled to make a much larger
enterprise.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">4.
Start a new market, or at least a new submarket, where you will be the sole
provider.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">5.
Avoid all businesses that need lots of little-utilized assets (such as
slow-moving inventory).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">To
better appreciate the value of these five principles, here are my own
explanations of Dr. Penn’s observations. Matching what you know how to do well with
what the business needs seems like an obvious point, doesn’t it? However,
consider how often you’ve been “served” by a business that made a mess while
trying to provide you with goods or services. I fear that this principle is
more often ignored than closely followed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">If
you want to do a somewhat different business and can wait while you acquire the
ideal education, experience, knowledge, and skills, making such preparations will
expand your choices.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">I’ve
never seen an initial business idea that was very well developed. Success
usually requires lots of experiments, mistakes, and hard-earned lessons. If you
spend all your money before you have shaken out the “bugs,” you won’t get very
far. David also observes that such efforts should be focused on developing
unique intellectual property that benefits customers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Many
entrepreneurs only focus on competitive advantage or being able to scale up the
business quite rapidly. Do only the former, and you may well build a nice small
business. Do the latter and you are likely to build a business that eventually
collapses due to competitive vulnerabilities. Do both, and the world can be
your playground for inventive success.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Does
a market really need a fourteenth competitor? Of course not! By establishing a
new market that serves an unmet need, you create a reason for people to be
interested in your fledgling enterprise. Otherwise, you’ll just be ignored by
almost everyone. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Little-used
assets tie you down. You’ll spend too much of your time figuring out what to do
about them, rather than being free to innovate in a direction that may well
require leaving all your old investments behind. With few such assets, it’s
easier to head off to where you should be going. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Are
you ready? If not, start getting ready!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">What
are you waiting for?</span></div>
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Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20015576.post-48558084680006153912012-06-20T11:39:00.000-07:002012-06-20T11:40:19.370-07:00Be Sure to Read Business Basics<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b><span style="color: #009900;">Good afternoon, Billion Dollar Business Creators!</span></b><br />
<br />
<b><span style="color: #009900;">Are you feeling motivated this afternoon?</span></b><br />
<br />
<b><span style="color: #009900;">I know that I certainly am! </span> </b></div>
<b>If you haven't started reading <i>Business Basics</i></b><b>, you are falling behind in your opportunities to create a billion dollar business that will bring glory and honor to our Lord, Jesus Christ. </b><br />
<br />
<b>If you want to dive in with a softcover copy, you can buy a used copy from me "billiondollarentrepreneur" for $129.95 at:</b><br />
<br />
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<b>Please let me know how I can help.</b><b><span style="color: #009900;"> </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #009900;">May God bless you, your family, and all you do in the name of Jesus!</span></b><b><span style="color: #009900;"> </span></b><br />
<br />
<b><span style="color: #009900;">With best regards, much appreciation, and all good wishes,</span></b><br />
<br />
<b style="color: #38761d;">Donald W. Mitchell</b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #009900;">Chairman<br />The Billionaire Entrepreneurs' Master Mind</span></b></div>Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20015576.post-14120391004553876282012-06-19T19:56:00.004-07:002012-06-19T20:10:40.409-07:00Be Sure to Track the Latest Progress in The 400 Year Project<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b><span style="color: #009900;">Good Evening, Billion Dollar Business Creators!</span></b><br />
<br />
<b><span style="color: #009900;">Are you feeling motivated this evening?</span></b><br />
<br />
<b><span style="color: #009900;">I know that I certainly am!</span> </b></div>
<b>I've recently started a new blog that delivers daily progress on The 400 Year Project, which supports research to show how to make breakthroughs in every form of human endeavor. </b><br />
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<b>Be sure to check it out to gain even more information concerning how to create a billion dollar business at:</b><br />
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<b>Please let me know how I can help.</b><b><span style="color: #009900;"> </span></b><br />
<br />
<b><span style="color: #009900;">May God bless you, your family, and all you do in the name of Jesus!</span></b><b><span style="color: #009900;"> </span></b><br />
<br />
<b><span style="color: #009900;">With best regards, much appreciation, and all good wishes,</span></b><br />
<br />
<b style="color: #38761d;">Donald W. Mitchell</b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #009900;">Chairman<br />The Billionaire Entrepreneurs' Master Mind</span></b></div>Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20015576.post-74215251794835358082012-06-08T10:26:00.001-07:002012-06-08T10:27:01.497-07:00Learn How to Set and Communicate Goals for Increasing Benefits by Ten Trillion Times<h3 class="post-title">
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<b><span style="color: #009900;">Good Afternoon, Billion Dollar Business Creators!</span></b><br />
<br />
<b><span style="color: #009900;">Are you feeling motivated this afternoon?</span></b><br />
<br />
<b><span style="color: #009900;">I know that I certainly am!</span> </b><br />
<br />
<b>On June 30 in Boston, I'll be holding a one-day seminar on how to set and to communicate goals for creating 20 trillion times more benefits based on Part One of my next book, <i>Excellent Solutions.</i></b></div>
<br />
<b>You are cordially invited to join me. The fee is $1,000.00 (U.S.).</b><br />
<br />
<b>If you cannot attend, I'm also offering electronic copies of course materials for $150.00 (U.S.).</b><b> </b><br />
<br />
<b>Please
contact me for details of how to order (askdonitchell [at]
yahoo [dot] com). If you have questions, please let me know.</b><b> </b><br />
<br />
<b>Please let me know how I can help.</b><b><span style="color: #009900;"> </span></b><br />
<br />
<b><span style="color: #009900;">May God bless you, your family, and all you do in the name of Jesus!</span></b><b><span style="color: #009900;"> </span></b><br />
<br />
<b><span style="color: #009900;">With best regards, much appreciation, and all good wishes,</span></b><br />
<br />
<b style="color: #38761d;">Donald W. Mitchell</b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #009900;">Chairman<br />The Billionaire Entrepreneurs' Master Mind</span></b></div>Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20015576.post-76926401589425282032012-06-05T12:32:00.001-07:002012-06-05T12:36:09.329-07:00Learn How to Become a Breakthrough Business Consultant<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b><span style="color: #009900;">Good Afternoon, Billion Dollar Business Creators!</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #009900;">Are you feeling motivated this afternoon?</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #009900;">I know that I certainly am!</span></b></div>
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<b>I pray that you and your family enjoyed a wonderful Memorial Day!</b></div>
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<b>Our family's joy was increased by visiting with my new granddaughter in May. What a blessing she is.</b></div>
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<b>I recently published <i>Business Basics</i>, which
addresses how entrepreneurs need to prepare themselves, how to select
the right kind of business to start, ways to increase market size by
twenty times and to gain market share, reduce costs by 96 percent, and
eliminate 96 percent of investments. The result is a business that
quickly becomes immensely valuable.</b></div>
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<b>While
many people will be able to use these 52 lessons and fast-start guide to
create their own successful enterprises, I'm sure that many people will
need some help along the way. It will be great to have some
breakthrough business consultants available to help them.</b></div>
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<b>To that end, I held a course on June 2 in Boston. </b></div>
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<b>Many people who lived on other continents wanted to participate, but couldn't. As a result, I have made available a way for people to purchase <i>Business Basics </i>inexpensively and to obtain a copy of the PowerPoint presentation materials from the consulting course. Even if you only want to be a more successful entrepreneur, the combination is a powerful one. </b></div>
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<b>Until June 30, 2012, you may purchase electronic copies of both materials (the book and the PowerPoint presentation) for only $150.00 (US). That's less than Amazon.com charges for the electronic version of the book alone. I can charge you less because I don't have to pay Amazon.com. </b><br />
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<b>Please
contact me for details of how to order (askdonitchell [at]
yahoo [dot] com). If you have questions, please let me know. </b></div>
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<b>Please let me know how I can help.</b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #009900;">May God bless you, your family, and all you do in the name of Jesus!</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #009900;">With best regards, much appreciation, and all good wishes,</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #009900;">Donald W. Mitchell<br />Chairman<br />The Billionaire Entrepreneurs' Master Mind</span></b></div>Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20015576.post-86044442346565291722012-05-02T09:10:00.001-07:002012-05-02T09:42:49.441-07:00A Universal Method for Quickly Increasing Benefits by Ten Trillion Times<br />
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<span class="down"><b><span style="color: #009900;">Dear Billionaire Dollar Business
Creators,</span></b></span></div>
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<span class="down"><b><span style="color: #009900;">I pray that you are having an amazing
day!</span></b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Holy Spirit gave
me an astonishing revelation last evening, a universal method for quickly
increasing benefits by ten trillion times while engaging no more time, money,
assets, effort, and resources from existing sources. Wow! Do we serve a great
God of what? I've been directed to teach this method to those who want to
immediately put it into effect for Godly purposes. Send me a message to
save_more_souls [at] yahoo [dot] com if you are so called. Praise God for His
unlimited knowledge, power, and grace!</b></div>
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<b>Please
let me know how I can help.</b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #009900;">May God bless you, your family, and all you do in the
name of Jesus!</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #009900;">With best regards, much appreciation, and all good
wishes,</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #009900;">Donald W. Mitchell<br />
Founder, The 400 Year Project</span></b></div>Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20015576.post-25112116325309079732012-04-11T08:53:00.000-07:002012-04-11T08:54:11.624-07:00Become a Breakthrough Business Consultant on June 2<!--[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" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><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="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="color:#009900">I know that I certainly am!</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b>I pray that you and your family enjoyed a wonderful Easter!</b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b>Our family's joy was increased by the arrival of a new granddaughter on April 4. What a blessing she is.</b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b>For some time, the Holy Spirit has been nudging me to begin holding classes in the Boston, Massachusetts area. With the imminent publication of <i>Business Basics</i>, it's become clear that this is the right time to be obedient to that direction.</b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><i>Business Basics</i> addresses how entrepreneurs need to prepare themselves, how to select the right kind of business to start, ways to increase market size by twenty times and to gain market share, reduce costs by 96 percent, and eliminate 96 percent of investments. The result is a business that quickly becomes immensely valuable.</b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b>While many people will be able to use these 52lessons and fast-start guide to create their own successful enterprises, I'm sure that many people will need some help along the way. It will be great to have some breakthrough business consultants available to help them.</b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b>Those who attend the course will receive a copy of <i>Business Basics</i>, continental breakfast and lunch, plus a full day of training in how to apply the book's lessons to assist someone who wants to use it as a template for creating a new business.</b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b>The training will be held on Saturday, June 2, 2012, in the Boston, Massachusetts area. The fee for the day is $600 (US). Enrollment is limited on a first-come, first-served basis to those who enroll in advance.</b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b>Please contact me for details of the day and how to enroll (askdonitchell [at] yahoo [dot] com). If you have questions, please let meknow. I look forward to meeting you then.</b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b>Please let me know how I can help.</b> </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" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="color:#009900">Donald W. Mitchell<br />Chairman<br />The Billionaire Entrepreneurs' Master Mind</span></b></p>Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20015576.post-77812976492365783042012-01-26T08:49:00.000-08:002012-01-26T08:52:30.449-08:00Create 400 Times More Social Benefits and 20 Times More Profits<!--[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>Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20015576.post-90565894253431400382011-12-31T11:50:00.000-08:002011-12-31T11:54:06.783-08:00I'm Looking for Five Entrepreneurs Who Want to Have a Billion-Dollar Business by January 2016<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>Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20015576.post-1635071735847229432011-09-03T09:20:00.000-07:002011-09-18T06:50:58.660-07:00I'm Looking for Five Entrepreneurs Who Want to Have a Billion-Dollar Business by January 2015<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>Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20015576.post-52554917134917775012011-02-25T11:46:00.000-08:002011-02-25T12:04:21.313-08:00I'm Looking for Five Entrepreneurs Who Want to Have a Billion-Dollar Business by January 2014<!--[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>Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20015576.post-30317180490789572082010-09-06T12:09:00.000-07:002010-09-06T12:13:49.342-07:00Breakthrough Leadership BlueprintThis 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.Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20015576.post-23925941246603121782010-09-06T11:49:00.000-07:002010-09-06T12:09:10.255-07:00Step One: Get to Know the Backgrounds, Experiences, Philosophies, and Observations of Those Who Need to Provide Breakthrough LeadershipSearch 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.Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20015576.post-45228919635443377502010-09-06T11:39:00.000-07:002010-09-06T11:49:45.113-07:00Step Two: Encourage Breakthrough Leadership PracticesAnd 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.Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20015576.post-42236695545069126002010-09-06T11:28:00.000-07:002010-09-06T11:39:14.656-07:00Step Three: Build More Consensus among the Leadership Team to Increase and to Encourage Breakthrough Leadership“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.Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20015576.post-85437892588862565722010-09-06T11:22:00.000-07:002010-09-06T11:28:27.867-07:00Step Four: Define and Set Credible Breakthrough Goals to Accomplish the Organizational ConsensusIn 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.Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20015576.post-6059490597476318702010-09-06T11:12:00.000-07:002010-09-06T11:21:54.186-07:00Step Five: Help the Organization to Develop Skill and Experience in Making BreakthroughsAnd 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.Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20015576.post-64920152501548434372010-09-06T11:03:00.000-07:002010-09-06T11:11:42.945-07:00Step Six: Help the Organization’s Stakeholders to Develop Skill and Experience in Making BreakthroughsYou 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.Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20015576.post-30086860657136262912010-09-06T10:42:00.000-07:002010-09-06T10:55:32.401-07:00Step Seven: Exemplify More Righteous Behavior in All Areas of LifeThen 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.Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20015576.post-34117693326078328092010-08-03T12:34:00.001-07:002010-08-09T18:08:48.570-07:00New Course Available for Those Who Want to Start a Succcessful New Business, Either Part Time or Full Time<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>Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20015576.post-40227252721169526652010-02-08T13:23:00.000-08:002010-02-08T13:26:28.926-08:00Become a Sponsor of The 400 Year Project<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>Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20015576.post-43620399499723705752008-01-01T17:14:00.000-08:002008-01-01T17:16:30.953-08:00Adventures of an Optimist Is Now Available<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&s=books&qid=1199235182&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&s=books&qid=1199235182&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>Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20015576.post-17060649648174539972007-08-09T08:57:00.000-07:002007-08-14T17:04:18.538-07:00Would You Like Me to Coach or Brief You so You Can Build Your Billion Dollar Business Faster and Larger?<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>Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.com