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Post by danielleolivier on Oct 24, 2013 11:32:25 GMT -6
Not having an emotional attachment to something that takes up all your time and efforts and money seems like a hard thing to do. When it comes to business though, it is important to keep your mind on the ultimate goal and not let emotions get in the way. After working so hard on a business to have it taken away and be pushed out by partners that you trusted is devastating. When taking out the emotions, although you may be viewed as cold and callas, at least you are protecting yourself, your business and your future.
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Post by zekesonnier on Oct 24, 2013 12:32:12 GMT -6
INSTANT MBA: Don't Be Emotionally Attached To The Business
This article was somewhat hard to clearly interpret. I believe what she was saying is that she should not be emotional about losing her first bakery and should just move one. Also, she is not going to be too emotional while creating this new business and just focus on her objectives. By not putting too much emotion into her business I assume it will be less stressful without that close personal attachment. I would also assume she can focus on the objective more rather than letting her emotions guide her decisions.
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Post by kformaggio on Oct 30, 2013 20:37:28 GMT -6
INSTANT MBA: Don't Be Emotionally Attached To The Business
While, personally, it is a challenge for me, I do agree that making business decisions sans emotions is the better route to take. About five years ago I was a Mary Kay consultant. I loved the company and everything it stood for. I believed in the business model; the sky truly was the limit if one was willing to make goals and work hard to achieve them. I met women who were millionaires. Louisiana 30-something women who were millionaires! I enjoyed meeting with customers and educating them about the products, and I still use MK products on a daily basis. However, I had a problem taking money from people. I felt bad charging customers full price for products, and I found myself offering discounts where are you too often. I let my emotions regarding money get in the way, which ultimately led to my not succeeding as a consultant.
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Post by bneedham on Nov 3, 2013 1:13:52 GMT -6
INSTANT MBA: Don't Be Emotionally Attached To The Business
I agree entirely. You do not have to be emotionally invested in a business to make it successful. Businesses are often ran into the ground by poor decisions made by emotionally attached owners or managers. The same logic applies to employees as well. I have trained new managers with no leadership experience and I find it is usually difficult to promote an employee to a manager because they make decisions based on how it will affect their employees instead of how it will affect their business. I am not saying this to excuse poor treatment of employees, but sound business decisions cannot always be made in a way that all employees will appreciate. For example, most employees I have ever had want weekends off, but in a restaurant or retail business it is not feasible to close on the weekends just to make employees happy. A better idea is to rotate weekend shifts between employees so that they get some weekends off while the business still makes money.
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Post by dipanjali1 on Nov 3, 2013 21:01:44 GMT -6
INSTANT MBA: Don't Be Emotionally Attached To The Business
In the world of business, anything and everything is possible. It is possible to be hugely successful and there is equal possibility to be a failure. So, having an overly emotional attachment with the business may make you unable to stand up and revive back in incidences of business failures or other circumstances. It is important to give your best in order to make the business successful, but emotional attachment may affect your ability to fight back in case anything unfortunate happens.
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Post by w0384905 on Nov 4, 2013 21:44:53 GMT -6
INSTANT MBA: Don't Be Emotionally Attached To The Business
This article talks about being emotionally attached to your business. You can't be emotionally attached to your business you have to be willing to sell it at any point when the right deal comes along. You constantly have to stick and move and go to the next thing. Don't just fall in love with one business you need to constantly be looking for new and improved ideas.
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Post by sbardwell on Nov 6, 2013 10:05:41 GMT -6
INSTANT MBA: Don't Be Emotionally Attached To The Business
We have seen several articles about removing the emotions from business decisions. Emotions cloud our decision making capabilities. When emotions such as fear, disappointment, anger, and resentment rule our decision making, it blocks our ability to determine what the facts. Learning to separate facts from emotion is a skill that can be learned and can ensure clarity in times of difficult decision making. In addition, allowing emotions to rule can set up for taking failure to heart rather than using failure as a learning tool.
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Post by darrell2009 on Nov 9, 2013 0:57:09 GMT -6
INSTANT MBA: Don't Be Emotionally Attached To The Business It's a business their should never be emotion, you are going to have good moment and a lot of very bad moment but the most important thing to remember is that business world is nothing but a game and how you play it will determine whether you succeed in it or not. The author learned her lesson for hire to new people and giving them half of her shares but at the same time that also provided her with a better opportunity to create something bigger and better and in the long run she can out on top.
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Post by banessau on Nov 9, 2013 14:22:53 GMT -6
Don't Be Emotionally Attached To The Business
I will always have trouble with this area because at times, I do feel I get emotionally attached. As the article reads, it is best if little emotions are attached because then it will be better to execute and situation. Sadly, what happened to Kathleen happens often; looking for everyone's best interest, sometimes is not the route to go. Once the emotion is out of the picture, there will always be more clarity and it will also be less consuming for one's self.
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Post by ashleylevernharrison on Nov 9, 2013 20:38:51 GMT -6
INSTANT MBA: Don't Be Emotionally Attached To The Business
I think that when you take the emotion out of your business it allows you to make decisions that are more sound than you would make if you thought of the business as your baby and you need to protect it from harm. It also makes you be more aggressive with your business decisions and be less emotional if the business does happen to fail. In the end, a business is not your baby and need to be able to separate yourself from the business if something bad was to happen and you had to close it down.
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Post by w0415498 on Nov 9, 2013 22:47:07 GMT -6
Don’t let anyone take your dream away from you. There will always be people trying to make sure you fall, but you don’t have to stay down. Always get up to fight for what you want. You won’t succeed if you let people take control over your dream.
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Post by christiebrown on Nov 10, 2013 11:22:49 GMT -6
I think that even though removing emotion with a business can help a person succeed, it is a very hard thing to do. For many business owners, they put everything they have to offer into their business. They believe in it, and they want to see it succeed. For people like that, it can be very hard to remove emotion and do the things that will make things successful, but sometimes, it is completely necessary.
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Post by kselders on Nov 10, 2013 12:43:35 GMT -6
As mentioned in a song, the artists says, “Feelings isn’t a place for business and business isn’t a place for feelings,” which is appropriate to define the topic of this article. Starting a business from scratch is a challenge and having it fail could be another challenge emotionally. This is not to say you shouldn’t put your best foot forward but, things don’t always work out the way we plan. The more you hang on to your failures, the less energy you have to execute on your next opportunity. In the past, I’ve seen family who invest much and when it doesn’t pan out, their dream becomes deferred or they beat themselves up over it. In my own career, I hope to find common ground between the two and look forward to every opportunity thrown at me.
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Post by ebonisw on Nov 10, 2013 19:43:59 GMT -6
INSTANT MBA: Don't Hang On To Your Past Success For Too Long
Being emotionally attached causes your mood and thoughts about your business to go from one extreme to the other when you succeed or fail. Whichever one happens, you should always just be humble about it and not let it go to your head, nor get you down. Nothing lasts forever so it is important to be aware of this volatility that can occur for your business and know how to deal with it unemotionally.
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Post by tevinrapp7 on Nov 10, 2013 20:04:16 GMT -6
INSTANT MBA: Don't Be Emotionally Attached To The Business
It seemed that this experience has grown this manager. Past experience has taught him that you cant get all your emotions involved in a business, because it might fail you or you might succeed at doing so. Ever since that managers past experience, he opened another business and now bake goods are being served around american in the millions. That alone sets him as a manger forward toward growth and dedication.
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