This is the second blog in a series of three blogs to discuss three different games of work. This blog discusses the work game of business owner.

Business Owner

A business owner is the person who has controlling interest in a business. The business owner runs and leads the business. The owner must follow the following rules to become a successful and productive business owner.

1 The owner must seek, take, and exercise complete responsibility for the success of the business.

2. The owner is the king or queen of the business. The owner leads the business.

3. The owner focuses his or her attention energies and efforts on the success of the business (not himself or herself)

4. The business must have a purpose for existence in order to survive and succeed. Generally this purpose follows the vision of someone, almost always the originating owner. This purpose must follow these rules. The purpose of the business is to produce products or services or both that GENERATE value into the world, normally better than others. A business without a value generating purpose will not survive. Making money is not a value generating process. The VALUE created by the products or services will ATTRACT money to pay for the value generated. The business becomes an organized group of people, energies, and assets that must be directed to one common goal, the purpose of the business, for the group called a business to succeed. The owner will want to keep the focus of the entire business on generating as much value as possible through the products and/or services of the business.

5. The owner will normally want to generate the purpose and vision of the business to create the reason for the business to exist. The owner will want to have a passion and personal belief in the business vision and the value of the products or services the business creates. Owners who have a true passion and belief in the purpose of the business will be able to recruit and lead others to follow and achieve the vision. However, owners who do not like, accept or believe in the business vision will not attract others to the vision. Others will recognize the lack of belief in the owner and will act accordingly.

6. The owner has total control over what he or she wants to do within the business. The owner will want to create his or her roll in the business to do the things he or she loves to do and avoid doing the things her or she dislikes doing so the owner is very productive, not stressed out by doing unpleasant things and has the energy to focus on leading the business to success.

7. The owner works ON the business so the business will operate with or without him or her. The owner will want the operation of the business and the resultant production of the products or services to generate the profits of the business in NOT dependent upon the owner’s presence or performance every time.

8. The owner surrounds herself or himself with people, assets, outsourcing resources, and other resources who fulfill the purpose of the business. The owner will want them to create the products and/or services and generate the values to meet the vision of the business. The owner recruits and accepts people, outsourcing resources, and others to produce the RESULTS the owner wants to fulfill and enhance the completion of the purpose of the business. Normally, the owner will want them to produce the desired results that the owner does not want to do himself or herself. The owner does NOT want to allow people to stay within the business who politic by stroking the owner or create diversions from the purpose of the business. The owner will want to keep the entire team focused on completing the mission of the business at all times, and better than done previously.

9. The owner is only paid from the profits of the business.

10. The owner can direct the business anywhere and towards different goals and purposes. The owner can add, change, or delete products and or services for the business to provide as the owner chooses, normally to enhance the existing or even new vision of the business.

11. The owner and the business have no limits to the size and degree of successes. As the owner grows and improves as a person so grows the business. The owner and business will have virtually no limits of growth and income potential. Look at Bill Gates and Walt Disney. Their businesses grew to monumental proportions.