“In my experience, in the real-estate business past success stories are generally not applicable to new situations. We must continually reinvent ourselves, responding to changing times with innovative new business models.” ~Akira Mori President and Chief Executive of the Mori Trust (Hotels and other real Estates in Tokyo), and one of the richest men in the world
I have friends who made millions in real estates. Surprisingly, two of them were not even college graduates. Yeah. I envy them. In fact, at one point in my career, I contemplated of joining them. Anyways, what made them successful, while the rest failed or remained mediocre?
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The Demand
In part, it may or can contribute to a successful career, but never a guarantee. However, if you want to grab the opportunities below, you might want to consider getting an MBA degree.
“The demand for marketing, advertising, promotions and public relations managers is expected to grow faster than the average for all occupations through 2012.” -U.S. Department of Labor’s 2004-05 Occupational Outlook Handbook
The MBA Advantage
For those of us who are pursuing careers in these fields, this is a good time to consider an MBA degree. While, as I asserted, MBA degree is no guarantee, it can however give you an edge over other employees or candidates for managerial positions. In fact, some companies would require managerial candidates to get a graduate degree to qualify for a management office.
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Easily, we are now on the 10th of January 2008. Whew! I have my list of priorities for the year and as I go through them (I do this almost thrice a day since I wrote them last year, that is, 30th December 2007.) and review each item, I realized that nine out of ten were all actually career-success focused. I seem to have left some valuable goals that are more important than a successful career. I forgot to include
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I have been reflecting lately on how I should define and measure success. It is quite hard to concretize what I feel and think about it. There a lot of books written on the subject and am so tempted to get one to ease myself on my pondering. However I was reminded by G.K. Chesterton when he said:
There are books showing men how to succeed in everything; they are written by men who cannot even succeed in writing books.
Pretty ironic, huh. Amusing perhaps, but it rings some truth in it.
Should success be our ultimate goal in life? Rumi, a Sufi mystic poet and philosopher, gave me a tentative answer or another question rather?
All day I think about it, then at night I say it.
Where did I come from,
and what am I supposed to be doing?
I have no idea.
My soul is form elsewhere, I’m sure of that,
And I intend to end up there.
Does sacrificing everything in pursuit of success worth it? Was it Jesus who asked:
What profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?
If I do succeed in my career or in any of my endeavors, is that the end? Or I strive for more? Irving Berlin cautioned me:
The toughest thing about success is that you’ve got to keep on being a success.
How do you define success? How do you qualify or quantify it? Is the pursuit of happiness hinges on how successful we are?
