TRAITS : ABILITY TO LEARN FROM MISTAKES

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THE ABILITY TO LEARN FROM MISTAKES

       In General, people do not escape from doing various mistakes in life. The ability to learn from mistakes carry the meaning of the ability of a person to take heed and find ways and strategies so that the mistakes will not be repeated again. It’s not an easy to move forward with mistakes that had been done. But, there’s always a way to improve it.

       In the context of the entrepreneur, the entrepreneur is able to take heed from any mistakes that happen next review the implementation plan and build new strategies. This can be mature entrepreneurs to make better decisions in the future. Dato’ Yusuf Taiyoob is one of the entrepreneurs who never give up and always learn from the mistakes in building his company strength.

( Dato’ Yusuf Taiyoob )

      Dato’ Yusuf Taiyoob is the CEO of Yusuf Taiyoob Sdn Bhd. He started join into the business field at his age of 19. Being an businessman at the young age is not an easy. He had experienced lots of failure but he never give up. Dato’ Yusuf started his business with produce and selling perfume at Bayan Lepas International Airport (Hairul, 2011).

          His perfume business was at good place at the starting. Unfortunately, handle a business is not an easy. His perfume business go through bankruptcy phase. At the moment, Dato’ Yusuf can accept the facts. His health has declined as he ever experienced blood vomited due to the over stressed. The bankruptcy of his first business made his family worried about his health.

          Waking up from the failure, he realize that his first business move to bankruptcy due to his own failure in managing. Dato’ Yusuf hold his motto life of 'do not like working with other people or becoming employees but prefer to be the boss even had to go through many difficulties and bitter experiences' (Up Close with... Datuk Yusuf Taiyoob, The Date Whisperer, 2013). He planned the strategies of build another business. From these, he started selling the entire Sunnah product especially on dates.

          Even though realizing that he will meet with competitors, but he believes that once having loyal customers and high quality product, it may remain his business. Facing other competitors that have much experience doesn’t affect his goals (Up Close with... Datuk Yusuf Taiyoob, The Date Whisperer, 2013).

Furthermore, Dato ' Yusuf Taiyoob tells that he has been involved in this business for 30 years and had facing critical experience. It happens when his first time carry out business dates. Due to the overly trusting manufacturer and supplier from Iran, two containers (40 tons) dates imported received in bad quality. So he ran to Iran and talk to the supply (Hairul, 2011). Now, he can supply few types of dates to Malaysian and other countries.

( Dato’ Yusuf Taiyoob and some of his products )

     As a result, without facing failure, Dato’ Yusuf might not be able to stand on what he are now. Even, if he doesn’t have the ability to learn from mistakes, all the business that he tried to involve will not be success like now.

Bibliography

Hairul, M. (2011, August 11). Siapakah Yusuf Taiyoob? Retrieved from hairulPhoto: http://hairulphoto.blogspot.com/2011/08/siapakah-yusuf-taiyoob.html

Up Close with... Datuk Yusuf Taiyoob, The Date Whisperer. (2013, July 4). Retrieved from MalaysianDigest.com: http://malaysiandigest.com/features/41101-up-close-with-yusuf-taiyoob-the-date-whisperer.html