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pa href=http://www.bestaccountswellington.co.nz/ target=_blankAccounting/a failures that steer you, just like little corrections, are necessary -otherwise you are standing still and yoursquo;ll watch the competition go bynbsp;Try an avoid them. Making mistakes, learning, having failures in business is normal. In fact, failure is really the art of falling forward.Failures that steer you, just like little corrections, are necessary -otherwise you are standing still and yoursquo;ll watch the competition go by. Then there are the other failures, the ones that sink you. These Are the ones that take you right out of the game – you need to avoid these all.Before we get underway, just a little bit of background about Hamish.Hamish went to university and gained two degrees and one diploma in marketing, economics and accounting. He headed to Auckland to work as an accountant for Coopers amp; Lybrand – he was in the auditing department but after 18 months he decided that it wasnrsquo;t for him. Then he had an entrepreneurial seizure, it hit him like a bolt of lightening, and Hamish started his own business with another colleague at the age of 24. They brought in Japanese on ski holidays,that was in 1997. Plan A, bringing Japanese to New Zealand for ski holidays, didnrsquo;t quite work out, but the company that he formed, Rockamp; Ice, moved into different areas of business and grew. Rock amp; Ice dealt with a number of areas, from educational tourism bringing in thousands of American students each year to primarily working with businesses on the people side, in training, and even large team events for clients such as IBM, Commonwealth Bank, NAB, Deloitte,Phillips Fox, ANZ, MYOB and the list goes on; just a number of large clients that everyone wants on their CV. So he has been inside hundreds of businesses and seen what makes them work and, more importantly, what doesnrsquo;t make them work – and what keeps them going. Then Hamish won theYoung a href=http://www.bestaccountswellington.co.nz/ target=_blankAccountants/a Entrepreneur of the Year and also two Deloitte Fast 50 awards, for New Zealandrsquo;s fastest growing companies, that was great, two years in a row, Hamish achieved a lot.Now having sold Rock amp; Ice in early 2006 he is working as a profit specialist, working with small and medium business owners to make them more money through finding the gold just beneath the surface of their businesses: showing them how to get more clients, keep those clients coming back and spending more each time without making all of the mistakes that Hamish has made on the way. He is involved in two other businesses relating to property and a small information business on stress management.Irsquo;m looking forward tonbsp;learning more about these mistakes,letrsquo;s go.nbsp;I can tell you what, those nine years I had in business, they felt more like 20 and I think the grey hair is a testament to that. Learning from mistakes is critical and making a mistake once is okay, but making thenbsp;same mistake twice classes you as a slow learner, but Irsquo;ll have to confess to making the same mistake twice a few times. It took me a long timenbsp;to realise that I didnrsquo;t need to make an original mistake because itnbsp;has all been done before and the answers are there if you just go andnbsp;find out from the right people.I had five years at university and gotnbsp;two degrees and a diploma and even worked as an accountant for a whilenbsp;but that did not prepare me at all for the world of business. It isnbsp;quite funny because what I see now is that when I go into businesses,a lot of business owners operationally, or technically, theyrsquo;re goodnbsp;at what they do, but actually they struggle at the business of theirnbsp;business and that is what is really holding back their success.Today I am going to cover some key areas. I could talk for a week non-stop about the lessons but Irsquo;ve boiled it down to what I think are critical mistakes that Irsquo;ve made myself personally and I see a lot of business owners making. By avoiding these mistakes you can save a small fortune./p
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