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How long does it take to really improve a business? Much less time than you think. I have seen hundreds of businesses changed in minutes.  Just by asking a few carefully selected questions.  The right question can really focus your mind on what’s important in your business and reveal answers that can lead to total transformations in effectiveness and profits.

Charisma is a crucial ingredient of business success.  Without it, it’s hard to influence others. Difficult to clinch sales. And damn near impossible to get to the top.  But it is widely assumed that charisma cannot be developed – you’ve either got it or you don’t.

This week a major milestone was achieved by Tesla, the electric car company.  In California, they became the third biggest selling luxury car, behind only the Mercedes E Class and the BMW 5 Series.  That’s an extraordinary achievement for a brand that didn’t even exist a few years ago.  How did they do it?

Anyone serious about achievement in business needs to be obsessed about efficiency.  As a result of global commerce, the rise of the microchip and the ubiquity of the internet, business is being done at a blistering pace.  Yet most executives and entrepreneurs are using the same time management concepts they used a decade ago.

If you’re unhappy with your company’s progress there’s one area you should take a good look at.  Your search for perfection.  In business, aiming for perfection is usually regarded as a positive, but in my experience if the leader of a company is focused on getting things absolutely perfect it’s more often a negative. There are several reasons why.