Mauro Libi Entrepreneur

There is a children's story that has been around since I was a child, it is called , 'The little train that could'. The story is about a little toy train that wanted to be like the huge locomotive commercial engines. One day, the big train broke and the little toy train pulled the load of the big train. All the time the little train said,' I think I can, I think I can'.  This children's story is a great lesson in the power of Positive Thinking . If we believe we can make it happen.  I do not want to be the bearer of bad news, especially in an article on positive thinking but we can not do everything we want just because we believe that we can. Abraham Lincoln was famous for saying ,"All men are created equal". Well, no disrespect to President Lincoln but all men are not created equal.  Some of us have the talent to be a great doctor, some have the talent to be the greatest swimmer of our times. If you have no athletic ability, wanting to play ...

Norman Vincent Peale said, " A person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results".  A positive attitude is contagious. As a leader you set the tone. Imagine, if a company has a morning huddle of its top executives with the president of the company. The president has a bad attitude. He comes in criticizing his mangers. He puts them down and tells everyone that the company will probably go under. He threatens their jobs and they do not feel happy about the company or secure. How do you think the managers will then in turn treat their employees? How do you think they will treat their customers? The good news it that it works the other way also. It's amazing how your attitude, whether positive or negative,  as a manager can set the tone among your workers and customers. Have you ever worked around someone with an unpleasant attitude? Did you like it? If you set the tone for a positive attitude, if ...

When you or your employees meet a client for a potential sale or a potential new customer, impressions really matter. Before you even say a word, the customer is forming opinions about you and your company. Are you prepared to make this sale? Yes, you carefully prepared what you are going to say, you also dressed just right. What may be the most important aspect of the sales meeting is often ignored. This one important aspect, can make or break your sale. This is to remember to smile. The smile may be the most powerful sales tool ever. A good leader knows that a product is only as good as the employees that make it. If the people in a company are happy and have positive attitudes this reflects on their management. If you go to a company to consider using them and no one at that company seems happy and no one is smiling, this is a company that zaps the energy out of its employees. Would you want to get involved in that company? If the employees are that negative and sad, they proba...

One of the reasons why low employee productivity occurs according  to experts  is because of how the employee works and not by the nature of work itself. There are several ways to measure productivity, but most consider a large amount of work completed in a short period of time.  There are employees who are able to perform tasks in fewer hours than others, which does not make them more productive. You have to understand the amount of work is not always the main indicator of productivity. Increasing the quantity is of little use if the quality suffers.  There are employees who are trained in their field and are unable to work as fast as the other team members. That problem may be due to other factors that have nothing to do with intelligence, but with poor organization, personal problems, etc. Those skilled in Time Management  offer advice to overcome these weaknesses: You have to start the day with a list of the unfinished tasks from the previous ...

A young reader of my blogs said that in his personal experience, he understood that success was only a word was in the dictionary, and apparently - according to their perception-had only a linguistic meaning. He also told me that he found it   "interesting"  that I considered my father as  "asuccessful man" . Certainly there are many people who have the same perception of the success that the young reader. For years they have perceived the victory as something that does not exist and have not received information about the true nature of success, as individuals, as entrepreneurs and as a society. Since I'm not an expert in these matters, I just dedicate myself to write my opinion on such issues, I suggest you review the dictionary definition of success, exactly as the young man says. In the dictionary of the Spanish language it says that success is a word of Latin origin on exitus meaning ("Exit"), and the concept refers to the right effect ...

A long time ago, I took a marketing course where the topic was image. The concept was that it was not the product but the image that sold. They gave us an example of a Wendi's commercial. In this commercial you saw a family eating burgers at Wendi's and they kept wiping their mouths with napkins. The commercial ended by saying that Wendi had the juiciest burger in town. The commercial was a big hit and people wanted the juicier burger. The true fact was that Wendi cut chunks of fat into their meat and that was why it was juicier. It was mostly melted fat. Imagine if Wendi had said the truth. That they sell the most unhealthiest burger with chunks of fat in it. Nobody would buy it. But that was how business was done thirty years ago. It was all about profit. The health of the public didn't matter to corporate America. Then came along the concept of   shared valueinitiative . That is where companies look at their purpose differently. With shared value the concept is if y...

Norman Vincent Peale wrote a book called 'The power of  positive thinking '. This was in 1952. His book was to stay on the New York Times best seller list for 186 weeks.  Vincent as a child developed an inferiority complex that affected his life personally and professionally. With time and positive thinking he overcame that handicap. He believed that if you develop a strong sense of self and believe in yourself then you are more apt to act on task. That if you do not believe that you can accomplish a task then you will easily give up and not even try. Can you just imagine a salesman that doesn't believe that he can sell the product to his customer? ...... Now, imagine the salesman that believes in his ability to sell..... Which of them is more likely to make the sale?... Which of them will study the product well because he believes he will make good money off of it?.... Which of them is more likely to get up early on the day of the sale, be excited about the meeting, dress...

Every morning you should wake up and look into the mirror and tell yourself , 'today is going to be the best day of my life'. A quote from Buddha, ' the mind is everything, what you think you become'. Let your mind know that you are serious about making everyday a wonderful , loving , meaningful and happy day , a productive day , a profitable day'. There are so many negative thoughts that run through our mind each day, that we must clear and make room for all our positive thoughts and power. Dr. Dick Barnes, a consultant used to say,' Now that you believe that today will be the best day of your life , start right now finding ways to make that happen'. Google+ Visit:   https://managementandbusinessprodutivity.wordpress.com/ https://gestionempresarialyproductividad.wordpress.com/ https://busineesproductivityandmanagement.wordpress.com/ Follow us   Twitter   @maurolibi15

Joel Osteen is a pastor who has had amazingsuccess . He has been successful, in both in personal life and in his professional life. His church has grown from eight thousand to thirty thousand in the last six years. Joel also wrote a best seller book that speaks to why he has been so successful. His book is called, 'Your best life now'. It is all about having a positive attitude and the wonderful things such an attitude can bring you in life. Joel calls it, the power of positive believing . Joel said in an interview, "I just think people respond to hope and encouragement and that atmosphere of victory in the celebration that we have each week.  There are so many things pulling us down each week. People want to come and get something to lift them up'. Whether it's a business deal that you are trying to close, imagine how receptive your perspective client will be if her feels encouraged by you and your company , that you guys make him feel confident in yo...

There is a movie I love called 'Rudy'. It is based on a true story .  It is about a young man, not the brightest and he has no athletic ability.  He wanted to play football for Notre Dame. Everyone laughed  at his dream but he has no doubt that it will happen.  He is the definition of positive attitude and the example of what it can accomplish. His grades were poor, he had no money to pay the tuition and he was only 5' 2" with no skills to play football. Of course the University of Notre Dame turned down his application. When people say dreams don't come true, tell them about Rudy. Sometimes a winner is a dreamer who just won't quit. Rudy slept where he could, took whatever job he could get, bartered to get tutoring to bring up his grades in a community college . He never gave up. He believed that he would play for Notre Dame and after two years of applying, he not only got into the school, he got accepted on it's football team. How could a 5' ...

A long time ago, my company had a business consultant working with my employees to create a more positive attitude.  The consultant put a plaque on the wall and made the entire staff read what it said...." God grant me the serenity to accept the things that I can not change..... The courage to change the things  I can..... And the wisdom to know the difference. " The consultant explained that when we fail in business, we get caught up in trying to fix what went wrong. We can not accept failure and keep working on this failing project and find it hard to admit defeat. When a business project has failed, admit that you failed and then move on to the next project. Take the loss, accept it. Do not put more time and money in a failing project.  Even though you have failed at a project, it doesn't mean that you are a failure or that your business is a failure. Look for a totally new project with new ideas. Remember, that you are a winner. You can affect real positive ch...

Optimist   see the path, while pessimist see the obstacle. When faced with a challenge, optimist look for   opportunities . Negative thinkers just give up. They think it is always going to fail. It is important for a company to hire positive thinkers and to train its employees in   positive thinking . There are workshops that train in the art of   positivethinking . They will first look for negative attitudes and thinking in the   company . A bad apple in the bunch can ruin the whole bunch. If you have an employee that doesn't want to work, he can affect the attitude of other workers. Next, you look for bad habits in the   company . You can break the cycle of pessimism and negative thinking. After you rid the company of negativity, you work on creating a positive environment. If the   company   has areas where it has failed in the past, you can teach the employees to move one rock at a time and with time the whole mountain will be moved. We w...

A Japanese beer company called Kirin Brewery decided to become part of Shared Value Initiative . They wanted to effect social change. First, they felt that as a company providing alcoholic beverages that they should share the responsibility for drunk driving. So they developed the first non-alcoholic beverage that taste like beer called Kirin-free. Drunk driving in Japan has decreased 63% in the last 20 years and Kirin would like to think that they played a part. When an earthquake hit in 2011 in Japan, Kirin launched a support program providing six million yen to assist in the reconstruction efforts. They also are using the juice of pears produced in the Fukushima region. This area had rumors after a nuclear accident that were not true that the trees were harmful. One does not think of an alcoholic company as benefiting society , but as Kirin Co. has  proven with shared valueinitiative , we all can help each other by working together toward a common   . Visitan...

We are having an extremely good year, What do you do when you are ahead? You don't make mistakes. you don't gamble unnecessarily. You protect your lead. You make sure nobody gets hurt. You got to use these   guys in   the next game. We won this game. What if we had a good guy tuna company that was on the porpoise team? A lot of guys will buy that so their kids will not get mad at them. We don't care how much it cost to protect the porpoise, just how much it makes. If it cost too much, then we charge a penny more. We could advertise, would you pay a penny more to save a fish? Let the other companies build their plants in the wrong places. Let's be the company that makes the rules, plays fair, that's popular. Forget those nuclear power plants till we know they're safe. That refinery in Pagglesham, we will have to relocate it. It will cost us millions, but we don't care, because we will come out ahead in the end. That plastic stuff that we make, we will h...

Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. In the business world it is a very competitive world. Whether you are a doctor or you are a salesman or work in any other facet in the world of business if you want to make it, then you have to distinguish yourself. You have to offer a better service than anyone else. You have to constantly come up with ideas on how to stand out. This takes hard work . Whether it means getting more education. Whether it means doing research and development and figuring out how to come out with a better new improved product. It can mean offering better customer service . This means more hours and effort than any of your competition is willing to do. Thomas Edison had a saying that " Opportunity is missed by most people, because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." There is no substitute for hard work. In the business world, you need to remember that it is not about you. It is about your customer. All about your customer. So ...