6 of the Best Kept Secrets of Successful Business People.

1. The worst-to-best scale.
2. Self-investment yields the biggest returns.
3. Exploit benign manipulation.
4. Successful people are never bored.
5. Success doesn't change successful people.
6. Success means different things to different people.

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     Success is important to mostly everyone. It's a way to determine if you're actually taking advantage of all the possible opportunities presented to you. However, success doesn't come easy. An article written by Dan Deceuster, a successful businessman and entrepreneur, lays out 6 guidelines which set good business people and the best business people apart. The article exploits what isn't common sense for some people such as these so called "secrets".  A secret from the article that resonates with me would be secret 3, "Exploit benign manipulation" (Deceuster para 11). Benign manipulation isn't using deceitful or hateful forms of manipulation but rather connecting with people which will make it easier to land a sale. When we ask questions about someone's life, it's almost like playing a game of tennis. We wait for them to hit us back with a question to build that connection with us. This "game" will later help people like you more as a person and it'll be easy to sell just about anything since you're more personal with them. This is the most important secret from the article because it forces people to connect and that's really all business is. Connecting.


Citation:

Deceuster, Dan. “6 Of the Best-Kept Secrets of Successful Business People.” Inc.com, Inc., 24 Sept.   2014, inc.com/quora/6-of-the-best-kept-secrets-of-successful-business-people.html. Accessed 12 Mar. 2017. 

Done by Amos Ray IV.