Successful People are Proactive

Every hear you boss say the word proactive, or reaching out etc. These CEO buzz words used to make me giggle. I've met many Entrepreneurs and Business owners. What successful share in common is that they are proactive. They think of an idea good or not. Then they follow through with it, by making phone calls assigning it to their employees etc. Then they keep following through by checking up on the progress and hounding the person working on it until the work is done. In other words they go and act on their ideas.

Being proactive is more important to success than being smart. How many people are smarter than there boss. If you look at technology companies you'll find very smart engineers working for some guy with either a business degree or sometimes no degree at all. You might argue that being smart has nothing to do with having an academic degree. but yes it absolutely does yes I am biased. Anyway back to the point, These proactive dumb dumb's have surrounded themselves with smart people and so do not need to be smart themselves. That is why being proactive is more important to success than being smart.