Friday 22 April 2011

Sir Richard Branson

The story of Richard Branson.
A situation happened to billionaire Richard Branson in 1980. While vacationing on Beef Island (part of Virgin islands), Richard Branson and his wife were stranded when the local Puerto Rican flight got cancelled. There were no other flights out that day. Instead of seeing it as a ‘problem’, Branson’s millionaire mindset got him to see it as a challenging opportunity. As a result, he took a very different set of actions.
Branson got on the phone to a few aircraft charter companies and managed to charter a private plane for $2,000. Knowing that there were many stranded passengers who needed to catch a flight out badly, he borrowed a blackboard and wrote ‘Virgin Airways $39 Single Flight to Puerto Rico’. Within an hour of walking through the airport terminal, with the blackboard in his hand, he had sold every single seat!
After successfully flying everyone back and making a cool profit, he mulled over what one happy passenger had casually said, ‘Virgin Airways isn’t too bad-smarten up the service a little and you could be in business.’ Up till that moment, Branson, the builder of Virgin Records and a Hot Air Baloon adventurer, hadn’t given any thought to getting into the airline industry! But Branson, ever the bold adventurer, lost little time in launching Virgin Airways, taking on the giant British Airways and the rest is aviation history. Today, Virgin Airways is a global budget airline and one of the most profitable in the world.
The amazing thing about Branson was that he did not use any of his money to solve his ‘problem’. He used his millionaire mindset and thinking to turn a problem into an opportunity, which not only solved his problem, but made him even more money. (taken under article from http://sanmiakindipe.com/blog/?p=57 )

Critical thinking of a person change the perspective of the situation. With a mind of business yet having problems ,Richard Branson overturn the situation to make profits out of the grief situation. For us mortals , we be complaining all the way instead of thinking of a solution. After reading the story and seeing the resolution take from the mind of Richard Branson. He look for the problem and resolve the problem and gain some $$$ from the problem occurs.

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