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The conventional wisdom is a term coined by economist John Kenneth Galbraith in his 1958 book Society affluent, second edition (New York: Houghton Mifflin and 1958). It is used to describe certain ideas or explanations that have become generally accepted as true. Without But conventional wisdom may actually be true or false.
Conventional wisdom often stops people in their tracks. This is not necessarily bad. If conventional wisdom is that a small company will not survive and grow without adequate funding - a truism that has been shown to be true infinity times - and this reason, it should act as a barrier to emerging small business owner who intends to start a business with little money and hope best.
But conventional wisdom should not stand in the way when the belief is based on outmoded facts, wrong premises, or prejudice.
As Galbraith said: "The enemy of conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events." Take, for example, conventional wisdom from past years that the construction industry are clearly a man's world and that women are not.
Linda Alvarado and Mercedes LaPorta not know. Living more than 2,000 miles away, one in Denver and one in Miami. Both are the heads of successful businesses built from the ground over many years. The its phenomenal success stories are so identical at first glance appear to be the same story. Although not the same story, success stories of small businesses often very different appear to have the same roots.
The success of Alvarado Construction, Inc. and Mercedes Electric Supply, Inc. have their origin the will of two women to follow their dreams and challenge the conventional wisdom that none of them had some chance of success. Both have had different success facets of the construction industry, which is notoriously hostile to women in general. Minorities often face hostility in the same management and ownership. When the two women started their business 20 years ago, women doing what they wanted to do were simply unknown. The conventional wisdom was not simply that would fail, but they were crazy to even begin. However, each faced his will against this conventional wisdom and at the end not only succeeded beyond anyone's expectations - most likely including your own - but in doing so, also changed their respective industries, both in gender and minorities in general.
Linda Alvarado was raised in a highly competitive family with five brothers and sisters who do not. "Both my grandfathers were pastors, I was a little weird because we're Hispanic, "he recalls." As you can imagine, our life revolved around the church. "
"My parents were very, very positive. It was clear what their priorities were growing. There were high hopes for the school not only takes home an A, but I told them what I had learned. "
Mercedes LaPorta was born in Havana, Cuba, and his family emigrated to the United States and settled in Chicago. "When I was growing up, I kind of always knew that someday I wanted to have my own business, "she says." I come from a family business. In Cuba, my father had their own business and my uncles had their business. When we came to this country, my dad, as soon as he had saved enough money, he opened a small grocery store. I was about 13 years, and I like to work at the store on weekends. I've always had this bug in me that I wanted to have my own business. "
Linda Alvarado, admits with a smile that she was not born an entrepreneur. "We have no corporate history of my family. I was not even a the Girl Scouts, so I never sold Girl Scout cookies. I never really thought about having my own business or be my own boss. "
During his college years, Linda broke the conventional wisdom in their first women to work and study job.Young worked in the cafeteria or did things like presentation and answer the phone. But she took a job in the garden department of the university, and to do it soon discovered he liked working outdoors. She started to fall for the construction industry. "I took classes very unusual for a woman surveying, estimating and construction supervision classes. This was very traditional as you can imagine. "
After college, she went to work for a construction company. "I actually started in a project on accounting position at the site, later moved to a position of supporting a project manager, and as my level of skill developed, he moved a project engineering role. "In these positions, she admits," I liked being on construction sites as well, seeing the buildings come land. Where a superstructure is approached, gave me a great sense of the creative process that resulted in the structure of permanence and beauty. "
After high school, Mercedes LaPorta went to work for the A & P supermarket and quickly became a purchaser of his first wife, eventually buy items groceries with a budget of over $ 200 million per year. It also helped end a labor strike of Mexican labor dominated by the chain. There could be went to senior management with the company, but their business genes arose about the same time that she and her husband Victor decided they had enough of the winters of Chicago.
Mercedes LaPorta and Victor arrived in Miami, Florida, and began in March 1979 Mercedes Lighting, Inc. started in an office of 1,000 square feet of sale only Sylvania light bulbs. The decision to start her own business was simple. She says: "I always had this error when I wanted to have my own business. I never really wanted work for anyone else, my first job in Chicago was one born of necessity. "
Only three years before and Victor Mercedes LaPorta arrived in Miami, Linda Alvarado had decided to enter the construction business by starting small:
As I was in the construction of these sites, there were very, very large projects going on. I began to dream of building a project of my own. It was a dream rather modest at the moment and I began to think of it as a possibility. I decided I would start a small construction company management.
My start was very traditional. Many times, be prepared a business plan and follow it. Never dreamed of having a business. I started very, very small, working in development.
Of course, banks did not like to finance construction companies. To make a long story short, I have this blue suit and I went to several banks, but was rejected by all six banks. My parents finally mortgaged home for me to get going for $ 2,500. It was necessary to save money to get the gap until I had the opportunity to obtain a small business loan. Perseverance and persistence that kept me going. They are important in so far as I think I'll work at home most people in the search for a solution.
This led to start a business as a cutter of curb and sidewalk work done and base - it was really a basis for creating my business to what it is today.
Growth both the businesses started by these two women has been nothing short of inspirational.
Less than 10 years after its inception, Mercedes Electric had achieved its goal of being a leader in the distribution of electrical equipment in southern Florida. In 1992, Mercedes Electric Supply, Inc. and moved a 300,000 square foot warehouse and an office building, housing more than 2 million dollars worth of inventory.
The company addresses Mercedes now acts as an electric automation and data communications provider that employs 45 workers, has annual sales of more than $ 25 million and is growing rapidly. It is among the 200 largest electric power houses in the country. In the last couple of years as International Airport Miami has experienced a major expansion and rehabilitation, Mercedes Electric Supply, Inc. has won the largest contract was the largest in history. First, he won a $ 10,200,000 contract from American Airlines to supply electricity distribution and lighting system for new terminal. Later he won a $ 9,200,000 subcontract from the contractor, with the modernization of the South Terminal and has now entered a contract for 3 million dollars on the modernization of the North Terminal.
Linda Alvarado never lost his dream of building large projects. Its small sidewalk and the company became Building on a foundation of generally small firm and soon became one of the fastest growing companies in general contracting business in the country. It was one of the three companies that built the new Denver Broncos stadium and was also part of the construction of Denver International Airport and the Center Colorado Convention. Currently employs 450 workers and has revenues in the multimillion-dollar, creating projects for public and private sectors, both domestic and internationally.
Both Linda Alvarado and Mercedes LaPorta are unsuccessful because they had a better idea for a new product or service. Both, after all, are very settled, the old-line industries. Although both brought innovative techniques for what they do, so did their competitors. Nor is success simply because they worked hard. When talking about his years in the construction industry, their stories topping are so similar that they realize that successful because they stood up to decades of prejudice. They not only choose to ignore conventional wisdom, but to fulfill his head - and the right of the steam passes cursor over it.
Their stories of their early years are very similar. Mercedes recalls with a smile:
It is quite difficult for a woman to start a small new company, but it is doubly difficult when that business is business typically men. " When I started 28 years ago do not remember running a woman in any part of this industry here in South Florida. I had a lot of doors slammed in his face. In the early years, I had to use all the tools are available for me to break in. In those days, I was somewhat relegated to the back because I could not get my foot in the door anywhere. So my partner, who was a man, would have to leave to make all calls.
Linda recalls that at that time, women were not well received in the works:
Experienced graffiti being written on the walls and pictures of me in various stages of undress. However, I have worked with great people and I knew this was an industry I really wanted to be a part of.
Being an optimist by nature gave me a sense of personal mission to prove that women could succeed in this field. You have to smile, because what people look for when entering the room is one of six feet five burley. And actually, I have five feet five.
I would be asked, "Do you know what you're doing ... You know you will not be welcome? I was never directly said I could not do it, but was indirect. I was once told, "You have a lot of potential, have you looked in other fields such as teaching or corporate America or even law school?" At the same time, women were just making their initial forays into these fields. "Why do not you look at the areas that might fit?" I was told. Me heard conversations and jokes about me in many people. It was an environment in which the first aimed at the guys put his arm around me and saying, "What is a good girl like you doing in a place like this? "
But instead of discouragement, hostility made both women dig in their heels and try to much more difficult.
Mercedes says:
But in all these 28 years, I never considered there was something not to be able to overcome whatever problems I had at that time. I always knew I would find a way to do it, and has always found a way to overcome the obstacles that were in my way.
When one person told me I was going to fail, I looked at him or her directly in the eye and said it would never happen.
Linda recalls:
It was for me at the same time, both hurtful and challenging. When questioned its credibility, it is very easy to customize the criticism, and had to be very careful not to disqualify myself of the opportunity, do not believe the conventional wisdom, and not get in a box. That was my biggest challenge. While no one ever told me no, I'm sure there some bets that he would.
My mother always told me you have to start small but think big. That was reinforced to me and reminds me today that all companies started as small businesses. Without a bit of pain, there can be no gain. The key is to balance that and measure that. That little phrase I left to go back and reconsider and, if nothing else, say, "Look. I'm no different to any other person in a van with a briefcase."
They have become much more than only the business success.
Mercedes LaPorta is active in numerous civic and business groups including the National Council of Women Business Enterprise (WBENC) Women Organization president, National Minority Supplier Development Corporation, National Electrical Contractors Association and the National Association of Women in Construction. She is a passionate advocate for women in business, is a member of Enterprising Women National Advisory Board and is a WBENC ambassador who works for big companies to recognize the importance of supporting the growth of women-owned businesses. It has become a mentor especially Women with starting their own businesses.
In the mid-1980s, Linda Alvarado started a company called Palo Alto Inc., with her husband Robert. Palo Alto built and now runs more than 100 fast food restaurants, including Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and Kentucky Fried Chicken locations.
In early 1990, learned that the Colorado Rockies baseball franchise was for sale. "I never thought about owning a professional sports team," says Alvarado. But the more I thought, the more he liked the idea. No woman had tried to buy a franchise of Major League Baseball. "It was a great risk for a woman especially for Hispanic women, to own a sports team. "But at the age of 39, became co-owner of the Colorado Rockies.
She now is a corporate director for three Fortune 150 companies and has served as the chairman of the board of the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce in Denver and as Commissioner of the Initiative White House Hispanic Excellence in Education.
But every day, both are concerned about their business.
Mercedes admits:
At this time, my company is preparing to make another significant step in size and volume. So I am preparing for this next step forward by adding technological tools. We have computer systems and technology for a long time, but as we grow we will need more and more service of our growing customer base. In my store, I'm using hand-held automatic equipment that will print the orders and inventory. Everything is done with codes bar so that the filling of orders is more accurate and faster and deliveries can be scheduled automatically. This eliminates errors, saves time and money and above all the updates to our level of customer service. If we make it easy for our customers, we make it easier for ourselves.
Linda Alvarado admits
I am concerned about cash flow, work, the backlog, the cost of insurance, and all sorts of other things. But when I wake up in the morning, I can not be paranoid that people are behind me.
People measure success very differently. My success is due to my ability to allow others - people working for me and me - and to understand that change is constant. To be on top of your game, you have to be able to adapt to change. The only reason why I am a success is that autonomy those around me to meet the expectations of our customers and make them understand that is part of his dream too.
From a human world, what central lesson learned these remarkable women on their way to success beyond not paying attention to common wisdom?
"There are ways of playing the game within the rules, but still find ways to win," says Linda Alvarado.
"I think it was the way it was raised, my father raised me always tells me that if you set your mind to do something, then there is nothing that can not be done," says Mercedes LaPorta. "If you put everything you have in it, we will be successful.
"And I've always carried with me. My father died a few years ago But all my life was my inspiration. "
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The LeapFrog My Pal Violet is an interactive companion that helps children learn with an entertaining twist. Recommended for ages six months to three years, the cuddly Pal Violet's music, lights, and singsong voice appeals to kids whether they are barely crawling or talking in complete sentences. As an added feature, you can personalize the toy to match your child's preferences through the LeapFro...
Discover a fun first book experience to help little ones build a love of reading with Good Night Scout, one of LeapFrog's new 'My First Book' series! Children can flip the pages back and forth to progress the story, and learn about book basics and bedtime routines as they listen and "read". The book can even play lullabies and be used as a night-light! Parents can connect to the online LeapFrog® ...
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Girl scouts...?
My mom is the head leader of my 8 year old sister's girl scout troop. This Tuesday, they have a meeting that is supose to start a charity project. My mom is on the, well, less creative side, so she asked me to think of something for her to do with them. I don't want them to just buy or collect something, I want them to work on something. I was looking at the next-door neighbor's tag sale, and they were selling kids clothes or toys with missing buttons broken parts. What do you think of making it a project to fix everything up and deliever it to the homeless shelter kids? Good idea or no? Anything else like this that you have thought of?
8 year's old is a bit young to be sewing buttons and fixing toys. The typical 8 year old won't have the attention span for that and your poor mom may end up doing all the work.
How about having the kids make thank you cards for the soldiers overseas? Since it is the day after Memorial Day, it will be timely as well. My daughter's troop did this and it was awesome. They looked on a map for Iraq and Afganistan and saw how far away they were. Then they made the cards and took them to the post office. The post office gave them a quickie tour and they loved it!
You could also take them to a senior center and have the kids sing to the seniors or read a story to them. My daughter also did this and I am not sure who had more fun, the kids or the seniors!
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Baseball. The Big Show: A family affair at present high-pressure sports world, student-athletes are often faced with the immense demands for succeed in athletics. For Notre Dame players like Matt Scioscia, Steve Sabatino, Ryne Intlekofer, and Will Harford, each of which boasts family ties with professional baseball, the pressure is usually higher. However, the four developed a personal love and passion for the game, fueled in large part by the positive support ... Stalker Radar Guns- The Best in Baseball!
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