There are four types of management approach in small and home-based businesses, shown here in order of prevalence:

#1: The Lemming Approach

This is Management by Imitation. You do what everyone else is doing, which is a variation on playing safe (“there’s safety in numbers”). Yeah, right. Tell me again… when research shows that 90% or more FAIL in small and home businesses, how is doing what everyone else does a safer approach?

#2: The Reverse-Russian-Roulette Approach

This is Management by Guesswork. Instead of putting a pistol with only one chamber loaded to your temple and pulling the trigger, only one chamber of the gun is empty. (It increases the certainty of the outcome, but not much else.)

#3: The Ostrich Approach

This is Management by Wishful Thinking. You hide your head in the sand and hope that any risks or threats will simply go away. Meanwhile, you leave the most tender portions of your anatomy exposed… then wonder why you get bitten!

#4: The Intelligent Approach

This in Management by Know-how… you know the right things to do to succeed and the right reasons for doing them. You obey the Law of Success — and you succeed! (Unlike the 90%+ who obey the Law of Failure by default — yet expect to enjoy success).

Life is tough and unforgiving…

It requires that we obey laws of all kinds in order get predictable, desirable results. Yet so many of us become victims of “Blowfly logic”, our dreams strewn like lifeless husks along the windowsills of life.

The Law of Success is simple, but brutal and unbreakable. You can never break it. Try, and you end up breaking yourself against it. Most people have heard of this Law, but never recognize it for what it actually is. They think it’s a noble sentiment, then revert to their default setting from birth… the Law of FAILURE.

(They never recognize this Law for what it really is, either, so at least they’re consistent.)

There are solid reasons why the Law of Success says “do only the right things for only the right reasons.”

For a start, if you obey it then you can’t make mistakes. (Not won’t. Can’t.)

Why?

Because you KNOW the right things to do and the right reasons for doing them. No guesswork. No mindless imitation. No hiding your head in the sand.

The Law of Success requires knowledge. The Law of Failure doesn’t. That’s why it’s the human default setting. We’re all born ignorant — devoid of knowledge.

The Law of Success is also a succinct description (not definition!) of integrity — the attribute of character that’s indispensable to your success. (Click here to discover why.)

Notice something really important about the Law of Success?

It makes no mention of HOW to do all the right things!

Surely, if this is the Law of Success, it should tell us how we should do the right things?

Not really. The simple truth is that when we understand what needs to be done and why, we understand the cause-and-effect process involved in creating the desired result. We can actually create our own how — the structures and procedures we need to use to produce that desired result.

It’s intelligent use of leverage to do what someone else has already created in the way of models and methods. But the danger for us is very real and very simple: how can we be certain that they understand and obey the Law of Success?

This is why so many people who simply imitate others ultimately FAIL: they’re imitating someone who took a GUESS!

They’re following the illusion of success — which often takes time to reveal itself.

Study this article to discover how YOU can stay safe from scams and illusions — real or unintended. Both will ultimately lead to failure.