The document outlines seven main business strategies inspired by archery techniques: 1) Think through your target and conditions in advance, 2) Avoid distractions and focus, 3) Practice consistently, 4) Surround yourself with supportive people, 5) Set realistic but challenging goals, 6) Achieve balance, and 7) Learn about your "opponents". It recommends archers and business people train to overcome themselves, recognize their strengths and weaknesses, and build an environment immune to negative influences.

1. The Archer
Main Business
Strategies

2. The Archer – Main Business Strategies
Introduction
• The most successful
business people are those
who are the most driven
and know how to reach
their goals.
• A well-trained archer must
be always aware of the
necessary strategies to
reach this target.

3. The Archer – Main Business Strategies
Strategy 01 – Think it through
An archer must have in mind a
specific target to reach thinking in
advance all the conditions about his
opponent and goal.
Business Tip
Choosing a specific target and
thinking about it before acting will
make our success rate go up
immensely

4. The Archer – Main Business Strategies
Strategy 02 – Avoid getting distracted
Archery is all about aiming and
reaching a target.
Business Tip
Getting distracted will not help you
during your business performance. It
is important to focus and manages
well everything pertinent to our
performance.

5. The Archer – Main Business Strategies
Strategy 03 – Practice, practice and practice
An archer is aware that old habits
often die hard, and new habits take
time to form.
Business Tip
The more you practice a different way
of doing something the more it
becomes part of who you are.

6. The Archer – Main Business Strategies
Strategy 04 – Surround yourself with support
An archer must surround himself with
people who support what he is
involved with.
Business Tip
Set up a team to put into your inner
circle that are supportive
and helpful.

7. The Archer – Main Business Strategies
Strategy 05 – Set a realistic but challenging target
An archer makes the goal big enough
to challenge and excite him, but not so
big that he hesitates to take the first
step.
Business Tip
Choose your goals wisely. But
remember that taking a risk could be
an opportunity to improve
our skills.

8. The Archer – Main Business Strategies
Strategy 06 – Learn to achieve balance
An archer must be aware of his
balance since shooting is not just
pulling the string and letting it go.
Business Tip
We need to understand the forces that
are part of our business performance.
Never hurry or hasten any business
plan because success comes when
everything falls in place and follows a
natural rhythm.

9. The Archer – Main Business Strategies
Strategy 07 – Learn about your opponent
If an adversary is really stronger, an
archer needs to find another
strategical position to face him.
Business Tip
We must avoid any confrontation
without the necessary preparation and
planning. A strategical position is
crucial to achieve a good performance
and success.

10. The Archer – Main Business Strategies
Main Tips from a Well-Trained Archer
• A good archer should:
– Train to overcome himself since he is
his worst competitor.
– Recognize his strengths and
weaknesses and make the most of
each of them.
– Overcome his limits, getting rid of
any trauma or self-obstacles to his
success and performance.
– Learn ways to deal well with self-
control and concentration.
– Build up his own environment, being
imune to any external and negative
influences.

11. The Archer – Main Business Strategies
Conclusion
• Don’t get upset if you don´t
reach the target since the only
loser is the one that doesn’t
learn from his mistakes.
• Try to identify the situations
in which you are weak and
develop ways to overcome
them.
• If you shoot your arrows
without choosing your target,
you should not complain
about the outcomes.

12. • The following are referenced in
this presentation:
– Colin Wee
http://www.hikarudojo.com/channels/b
warchery/secrets.htm
– Kathy Gates
http://www.powerhomebiz.com/leader
ship-management/success-tips/how-to-
reach-any-goals.htm
– http://www.businessballs.com/goal_pl
anning.htm
– http://www.wikihow.com/Accomplish
-a-Goal
The Archer – Main Business Strategies
Our References

13. The Archer – Main Business Strategies
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