Effort Is The Decisive Difference

What separates one business from another? What is the key factor that makes a successful business owner or manager better than an average one? What is the difference between two highly competitive and talented sports teams?

Quite often, the answer is effort.

Recently, in an informative article in the Scientific American entitled ‘The Expert Mind’, the author, Philip E Ross, reaches the conclusion that what creates mastery in any given field is practice.

He concludes, “The preponderance of psychological evidence indicates that experts are made not born.” Over extended periods of time, training, practice and ‘effortful study’ combine to create high performance in any field of endeavor.

In business, what makes the big difference in performance is the motivation and sheer effort we put into it. Dedicated, motivated single-minded effort can prove the winning formula for the successful business owner and manager.