Ten years ago, I started to study a question: How do ordinary people succeed?
At that time, I was engaged in international economics and policy research in government departments, and had the opportunity to contact some politicians, famous political scholars, Nobel laureates in economics, senior executives of international financial institutions, and well-known entrepreneurs.
In the process of communication, I will always explore their growth experience, trying to sum up the common characteristics of success.
Later, I became a consulting company, and I had the opportunity to study many companies and entrepreneurs in depth, including those on the Forbes Rich List.
Consultants are equal to corporate doctors and need to understand all aspects of companies and entrepreneurs. This kind of research is extremely in-depth. In many cases, consultants have a deeper understanding of companies and entrepreneurs than entrepreneurs themselves.
More executives have been interviewed. For every consultation, I have to interview all the executives of the company. One of my favorite questions is: “Can you tell us about your glorious past?”
In this way, I accumulated a lot of cases.
Since this year, I have started to study well-known entrepreneurs.
Every time I write, I will go through all the books, magazine articles, and Internet materials I can find, and interview all the people I can contact.
Recently, the question that has been circling in my mind for 10 years has gradually become clearer.
Why are successful people cattle?
Below, I will elaborate on it from the following aspects:
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