Your last startup flopped? You could still walk away with a multi-million-dollar toolkit — if you know how to leverage it.
One of my neighbors is a 40-something founder with no impressive educational background nor formal professional training, yet he’s generating over $5B of sales in a hyper-competitive industry. Ironically, his industry of choice is often looked down upon by many career entrepreneurs. Why? It has something to do with the low barriers to entry, perceived antiquation, and seeming lack of differentiation and value add. Nonetheless, he isn’t the only one bringing in billions (with a “B”) in this space — though these titans of industry are, of course, few and far between.
You know what aren’t few and far between? The number of people with the skills to achieve similar success if they’d only redirect their entrepreneurial skillset. I hypothesize the reason this neighbor — and the few other mega players in his industry — are so successful is because they’ve brought a bomb to a knife fight. In other words, no one expected them to attack their “sleepy” (i.e. ripe for disruption) industry with the handful of ninja marketing, technical, and sales skills; in so doing, they were able to catapult themselves to swift, stealth, and unexpected success.
If you’ve pursued, left, or even failed at a seemingly impressive (or just plain difficult) industry, company, or profession — be it your own startup or other venture — I’d argue you may be walking away with a multi-million-dollar toolkit…even if you didn’t bag millions of dollars yourself (yet). Here are the 5 supremely underrated transferrable skills that can make you millions if strategically applied to the right industry.
Oh, and a quick secret on what is the “right industry”: It’s the one you’re passionate enough about to stick with until you reach optimum success, and step one may be admitting that you’re still figuring that out.
As a highly analytical, not-so-intuitive person by nature, accepting and admitting that behavioral intelligence is a mission-critical factor to maximum career success is…