Dennis D. Balajadia's talk in MarkProf, November 29, 2008

1. Internalizing the
Owner’s Mindset
November 29, 2008

3. MyInternalizing the
Adventures
Owner’s Mindset
in
November 29, 2008
Business.

4. 3 Lessons

5. Be More Your Map Dictates
Accident-Prone Your Future
Sex & Cash Theory Warrior Training

9. Be the SAME

10. Be
Different!

17. Inventory is
EVIL!

19. Indonesia

21. Thailand

25. “I was never, ever
interested in becoming
a businessman or an
entrepreneur.”
- Richard Branson

27. “The original Body Shop was a series of brilliant accidents. It had a
great smell, it had a funky name. It was positioned between two
funeral parlours--that always caused controversy. It was incredibly
sensuous... We recycled everything, not because we were
environmentally friendly, but because we didnʼt have enough
bottles... It wasnʼt a sophisticated plan, it just happened like that.” -
Anita Roddick

28. What are you so
scared of?

29. Lesson # 1
Business is Not
Linear

39. Population of
Company 2007 Revenues
Country (est. 07)
NESTLE $121B 8M
(Switzerland)
NOKIA $66 B 5M
(Finland)
VOLVO $36 B 9M
(Sweden)
JOLLIBEE $1 B 88M
(Philippines)

40. How do you beat the giant?

41. Fortune Global 500

42. 2007 Sales in US$ Billions
400
300
200
100
0
Wal*Mart Nokia Volvo Asustek San Miguel

45. Sales
400
300
200
100
0
Wal*Mart Philippines
2007 data from IMF / Fortune (in Billions US$)

47. Your Map Dictates
your future

48. Sex & Cash
Theory

64. Where do you see yourself
10 years from now?

66. I
GET
WORRIED!

67. “I have not failed. I've just found
10,000 ways that won't work. “
- Thomas Edison

68. 5,127 Prototypes
2 Years of Peddling
12 Years before Mass
Production

69. Warren Buffet
• Worth US$62B
• Gave $30.7B in 2006
• Bought first stocks at age 11
• Paid first income tax at age 13

72. November 9, 2001

76. Tenac
Insanity

77. Lesson # 2
You will
make mistakes

78. Two Schools
Formal Street
No Cheating Don’t just Copy,
STEAL!
Aim for 10/10
Follow the Rules

80. SouthWest Airlines 1971

81. “Good artists copy,
Great artists steal.” - Pablo Picasso

82. Two Schools
Formal Street
No Cheating Don’t just Copy,
STEAL!
Aim for 10/10 Learn NOT to be
careful!
Follow the Rules

83. “Do one thing every
day that scares you.”
- Eleanor Roosevelt

87. Aim for 5/10!?!?

88. Two Schools
Formal Street
No Cheating Don’t just Copy,
STEAL!
Aim for 10/10 Learn NOT to be
careful!
Follow the Rules Make the Rules!

89. My Own Rules for
International
Expansion

90. I want to believe you...

94. Naturale Labs Thailand

95. Naturale Labs
Indonesia

96. Naturale Labs Malaysia

103. UNPRECEDENTED
Rate of Change

118. I Love You Virus
• 10% of all connected computers worldwide
• $5.5 Billion in Damage
• Pentagon, CIA, British Parliament shut
down

121. Lesson # 3
Small is the
new big

125. Warrior Training

149. “All human beings are entrepreneurs. When we
were in the caves we were all self-employed . . . finding our
food, feeding ourselves. That’s where human history
began . . . As civilization came we suppressed it. We became
labor because they stamped us, ‘You are labor.’ We forgot
that we are entrepreneurs.”

150. Dragon Edge Group

151. http://bizispersonal.blogspot.com