1. Develop and explicate the vision of your business

• Recognize the veritable motivation you have for starting the business
• Develop a plan and goals of your business for a period of 3-5 years
• Generate an idea of how your business will prosper more than 5 years ahead

2. Decision-making

• Be focused on long-term goals, but pay attention to current issues
• Use proactive approaches and always be ready for changes
• Involve staff in decision-making process
• Properly delegate powers and responsibilities
• Look for sources of business and community inputs
• Keep records on history to learn from your mistakes
• Keep responsibility for the tough decisions

3. Build up broad and strong partnership

• Set objectives and advantages of partnership
• Develop a diverse set of partnership programs
• Identify potential partners and their involvement
• Invite only upper management of your company to participate in negotiations with partners
• Seek partners' advice and guidance
• Carefully think through the structure and details of meetings with partners
• Pay attention to partners' national nurture and peculiarities (nationality, confession, etc.)
• Don't press partners but be persistent and stand up for mutual benefit

4. Provide staff training and professional development

• Look for proactive ways to re-orient staff to self-development
• Involve external qualified trainers and mentors to organize training
• Involve business partners in developing training opportunities
• Develop complex and flexible ...

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