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18 Replies Last post: Apr 22, 2008 8:07 AM by devaney

What are the Top 5 "critical success factors"?

Apr 20, 2008 7:35 PM

Click to view cardan's profile Professional cardan 4 posts since
Apr 20, 2008
No sure recipe, but need help for a whitepaper - your thougths appreciated.
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Click to view DomainDiva's profile Mogul DomainDiva 1,731 posts since
Oct 10, 2007
1. Re: What are the Top 5 "critical success factors"? Apr 20, 2008 7:36 PM
THREE WORDS X5:

NEVER GIVE UP
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Apr 20, 2008
2. Re: What are the Top 5 "critical success factors"? Apr 20, 2008 7:44 PM
Nice, but not going to get me very far. Aviasphere web site looks successful, what were your success factors, besides not giving up?
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Click to view cardan's profile Professional cardan 4 posts since
Apr 20, 2008
3. Re: What are the Top 5 "critical success factors"? Apr 20, 2008 7:46 PM
Euless? Originally from Houston myself - now living in Virginia. Where is Euless?
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4. Re: What are the Top 5 "critical success factors"? Apr 20, 2008 8:41 PM
in response to: cardan

Euless, DFW Mid Cities area.

Not listening to the morons and to the ONE PERSON that thought the idea was/is great. If I had a dollar for every venture captial doofus that told me they loved the idea but had reservations about working with an OLDER FEMALE with NO DEGREE I would have had more than enough money to get started...(stretching a bit but you get the idea). I made the VC rounds for 2.5 years and got sick of the games they wanted me to play. Be friendly. Be sweet. Be nice. Don't wear such an AUSTERE suit..blah blah blah.

We are testing the software and making some 'intelligence' changes, the next generation website will have the app as well as forums and a shopping cart.

We are the first aircraft biz app strictly user managed that has a pricing structure that people can afford..even the little guy.

Nothing winds me up more than people who give up and quit because THEY don't like it..or THEY don't want to work with a certain kind of person....as far as I am concerned...every person and talent is up for grabs.

Get to market....let the market sort it out!

The business that pays the bills is my aircraft consulting business. I manage two leasing company aircraft portfolios.
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5. Re: What are the Top 5 "critical success factors"? Apr 20, 2008 8:43 PM
Top Five Critical Success Factors:

1. Failure
2. Failure
3. Failure
4. Failure
5. Failure........Success is an option.
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6. Re: What are the Top 5 "critical success factors"? Apr 20, 2008 8:47 PM
in response to: cardan
As far as my consulting business I always give the client my best efforts. I bill honestly and absorb the 'cost of doing business'. I am not in the habit of billing clients for silly stuff.

Before I went permanently with these two clients my best attributes for being on the road were:

IN and out quickly.
Get along with everyone even in tough commercial situations (repossessions).
Did not let myself be bullied.
Acccepted no bribes when offered.
Offered to help and train if needed. Sometimes at my own cost.
Worked weekends and late nights to get the job done. (still do that anyway!)

Thomas Friedman writes that the world is flat. I agree and in an truly 'one another world' one another is more important than ever. I always try to keep one another at the forefront...even when it's hard to do so.
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7. Re: What are the Top 5 "critical success factors"? Apr 20, 2008 9:00 PM
Vision
Planning
Persistence
Patience
Vision

Have a vision of your dream. Plan it out. Be prepared for both success and failure. Have the patience to let the plan work. Have the vision to see the dream when everyone else can't.
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8. Re: What are the Top 5 "critical success factors"? Apr 20, 2008 9:08 PM
in response to: intechspecial

I bet the British are happy Winston Churchill did not see it that way.
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9. Re: What are the Top 5 "critical success factors"? Apr 20, 2008 9:09 PM
in response to: Iwrite
I hate the word failure....
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10. Re: What are the Top 5 "critical success factors"? Apr 20, 2008 10:08 PM
in response to: DomainDiva
I'm not a big fan of it either but you can you have success without failure?
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11. Re: What are the Top 5 "critical success factors"? Apr 20, 2008 10:29 PM
Cardan, I have to ask . . . the top 5 critical success factors for what endeavor exactly (i.e., what's the context or focus of the whitepaper)?
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12. Re: What are the Top 5 "critical success factors"? Apr 21, 2008 8:11 AM
in response to: Iwrite
Even if something goes wrong, are there not lessons learned? Why are you people so darn focused on FAILURE? If something does not work out the way you want it to why is it a failure?

Do you like it? Do you want it? Why would you even have that word in your vocabulary? People who FOCUS on failure are losers. Period. Dot. The end.

Do or do not do.
There is no try. yoda
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13. Re: What are the Top 5 "critical success factors"? Apr 21, 2008 10:26 AM
in response to: DomainDiva
No one said that you don't learn from the attempts. At least I didn't.

I do learn from my mistakes or failures. I just happen to think failing is not a bad thing - letting it beat you is. In failure, character is revealed, resolve is set and strength is developed. The "everyone's a winner" mentality has made us soft, when things don't go as planned we cry and blame others. Well, in some contests someone has to win and someone has to lose. Winning and losing is the same as succeeding and failing to me.

"A christian is a sinner who falls down but gets back up." A recent gospel song.
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14. Re: What are the Top 5 "critical success factors"? Apr 21, 2008 12:51 PM
in response to: Iwrite
I have always opposed religious references on this board...for the record.

We disagree on what failure is.

Believe it or not, we probably agree about religion. This is just not the place for religious references.
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