Thursday, September 6, 2007

Patience


Patience is a virtue and this holds especially true in business. When talking to a potential client you need the patience to listen and discern what that person needs in order to present and custom fit your services in the most enticing way. Patience is also needed to find out whether a client or business partner has an ulterior motive when they are dealing with you. It becomes extremely apparent when someone is just there to leech off of you because they believe they have found a “sugar daddy” but you will wind up seeing who those are in time when they slip up and let their true intentions be known. In other words patience will eventually uncover a clients and business partner’s greed. Patience is also required in hard times. Good and bad times always come in cycles and you need to have the patience to work through the bad times because the good times are just right around the corner. So now you see that patience is a trait that is extremely important to have in business. If you, as a business person in the marketplace don’t have patience it is something that you definitely have to develop in order to survive in the corporate environment.