In business, any business from major corporations, franchises, government or home businesses, the success begins and ends with leadership. From the very beginning, the foundation must be laid brick by brick or when the storm comes the weakest link will start the collapse.

A Quote from boxing heavyweight champ Smokin Joe Frazier really sums this thought up quite nicely."You can map out a fight a plan or life plan. But when the action starts, you're down to your reflexes. That's where your road work shows. IF YOU CHEATED on that in the dark of the morning, you're getting found out now under the bright lights"

I use Internet marketing as an example. Recently the FTC came down pretty hard on Internet marketers and for one reason or another Google reacted pretty hard and suspended and banned accounts across the board. Now, if you did your road work ( ie. press releases, video, social media, article marketing, web 2.0 etc.The skut work, no glory, just consistent aveenues that build a solid foundation that every internet marketer should deploy, will keep you afloat while you find other lucrative revenue streams.

If however you neglected the road work and cheated a bit by just employing the quick money makers well, you were found out under the watchful eyes of Google and hopefully not knocked out, just down.

Ok... so the Leadership point, if you lead your business in all the right directions and lay the foundation for all of your employees, downlines, outsourcers etc. with a long term plan, when the Storm hits (and it always will) you will come out as the shining leader as your business will weather and in fact grow in the storm.

You can learn learn about Effective Leadership In Business from a full time Internet marketer,

What would an Internet marketer know about leading people in business? First many of us have a team of outsourcers that need to be managed a led every day. So in effect they are our employees.

The business lives and dies with the direction of a skilled Internet marketer and their ability to effectively communicate with our outsourcers many of which are half way around the world. Some Internet Marketers income relies heavily on the residual income from downlines, so they don't get paid unless they have developed the leadership to direct and teach