SubscribeFinding your path of least resistance
To better understand the Wealth Dynamics Square featured here, a brilliant creation by entrepreneur and founder of Wealth Dynamics, Roger J. Hamilton, it is best to start with the Wealth Dynamics Profile Test, which gives you a measure of where you start, and how far you can go, as well as which direction represents your path of least resistance to Wealth.
Even if you are not an entrepreneur, it will help you understand Wealth Creation, which is a major function of any business, and increasingly an imperative for educational institutions and non-profit organizations, which cannot depend on donations to keep their operations afloat.
There isn’t space here to go into the details of the 8 profiles, except to note that they are supported by successful entrepreneurs and business models in each category, and based on the concepts developed by Carl Jung, and derived from Asian philosophy. More importantly, the Wealth Dynamics Square is like a codex for understanding how people interact with people to create the ideas, networks, products, services and systems that make the business world go around.
Keeping your perspective
There are so many elements to manage in business that it is easy to lose your perspective. By focussing too much on one area at the expense of others, it is easy to win the battle but lose the war. The Mandala Chart can give you flexible focus, like a zoom lens which can look at the bird’s eye view of the whole, the insect’s eye for detail, and the fish’s eye for the connections.
As a guide to navigating and actually applying the concepts in the Wealth Dynamics Square, I suggest 8 categories you can use for Business: Value, Leverage, Wealth, Business Model, Strategy, Platform, Resources, and Network. Download a BUSINESS MANDALA featuring key questions for each of these categories, so that you can begin to create your own customized approach to a rewarding business.
A. Value
Without value you have no business. The challenge is that the value that is obvious to you may not be obvious, and may not even be noticed by the people who have the ability to pay for it. To be successful you need to create value, brand and package it in a way that is easy and attractive for others. This is an ongoing process, if your business is to survive the eroding forces of competition and shifting values. You must have energy and commitment to be at your best.
➀ What is your Wealth Profile, your path of least resistance?
➁ What is your personal platform, you means of showing your value to others?
➂ What is your process and plan for increasing your value over time?
Click here to find out more about the Wealth Dynamics Profile Test.
B. Leverage
Value without leverage is mere potential, a good idea waiting to be implemented. Leverage is how a concept is made known, tangible, deliverable, and ready to use or consume. Leverage is made possible by working with people in complementary profiles who can carry the concept forward into action. It depends on trust, tools, and systems for reliability.
➀ Which profiles offer the most leverage for your value?
➁ What strategies outside of your profile can you engage in to increase your leverage?
➂ What is your process and plan for increasing trust among your leverage partners?
C. Wealth
According to Roger J. Hamilton, Value X Leverage = Wealth (V x L = W). This is higher level of value for business partners, customers, and society, and the reason why a business stays in business. It is also what contributes to the lasting value, or legacy of the business.
➀ What types of value will you create for your business partners and stakeholders?
➁ What type of value do you create for your customers?
➂ What value do you create for society, and what legacy will you leave?
D. Business Model
All successful businesses operate on a structure, or business model that keeps processes running smoothly, and is the key to duplication, repetition, and sustainability. Some business models can be copied, as often happens with franchises. However, the ultimate success depends on the people involved, and not the mechanics of the business.
➀ What are the key elements and processes in your business model?
➁ Can you articulate them in the Business Model Toolbox?
➂ Do you have agreements or contracts in place to communicate and protect your business model?
Click here to learn more about business model generation, as well as tools for generating your own business model.
E. Strategy
While the business model is the vehicle, strategy is the map, the plan that shows where you are going and how you will get there. Strategies should allow flexibility to adapt the plan as you go, without losing sight of the end goal.
❐ Do you have scenarios and simulations for your business potential?
❐ Do you have a business plan?
❐ Do you have a platform for implementing your Strategy?
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F. Platform
In a world which is flooded with information and driven to distraction, you need a platform to be noticed, and to attract people to your products and services. Although there seems to be no limit of choices in how you build your digital or analog platform, the options are increasingly affordable and provide greater reach at a lower cost. The effectiveness of your platform depends on having a sound business model and a good strategy.
❐ What is your digital platform, website, social media, software?
❐ What is your analog platform, brochure, business card, one sheets?
❐ What is your process and plan for leveraging your platform?
G. Resources
No business can last without resources, not only financial, but information, contacts, ideas, all of the things that support and sustain your business as it grows. Pay close attention to and protect your resources.
❐ Do you keep an inventory of your resources?
❐ Do you polish, protect, and use your resources?
❐ What is your process and plan for outsourcing when you do not have particular resources?
H. Network
Ultimately it is the people in your network who make everything possible for your business. You need to identify who they are, and take care of your network well if you would have people take care of you in turn.
❐ Who are the people that can help you?
❐ Who are the people that you can help?
❐ Do you have a process and plan to cultivate and increase your Wealth Network?
Click here to read about the anatomy of your Wealth Network
Developing a rewarding business is hard work, but it becomes easier once you identify and coordinate the elements that support it. The great thing about being or even thinking like an entrepreneur is that you navigate your own course, rather than following instructions to navigate someone else’s course. Use the Business Mandala to keep your perspective and develop your work into a rewarding business.
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