Outcome Oriented – C.J.Walker By: C.K.Yee No comments

 In business circles, an outcome-oriented defined as accept the contract to work with a client to achieve their desired outcome. Employees are at liberty to utilize personalized processes in an effort to achieve set targets at the organization. The primary goal of an outcome-oriented individual or organization is to meet objectives and realize positive growth.

The entrepreneur who has the trait of outcome-oriented is Madam C.J Walker. She is the first black American women to be a self-made millionaire. She lived life from slavery to Mansions. She set a target that is she want to get out from poverty. At the age of six her parents pass away, so she moved to Vicksburg to live with her sister Louvinia and to work as a housemaid. She worked hard from the time she was very young, was extremely poor, and had little opportunity to get an education. When she was fourteen she getting married to Moses McWilliams. At eighteen she gave birth to a daughter she named Leila. Two years later her husband died. Although she loses her husband she did not give up and set her mind to achieve the target she set.  Finally, she did the best for her and also her daughter.

In 1905, she was dealing with hair loss because of a combination of stress and damaging hair care products, from that, she attended a class about this problem and it inspired her to invent hair care products to help everyone who is losing their hair. She also started her business and it became very successful and known as Walker Manufacturing Company. In 1900, she became the mother of invention.

 After all, she quickly expanded her business and trying to make it more famous. She not only marketed her hair care products but also tutored African American men and women in their use, recruiting a group called "Walker Agents. Among African American women her hair care product become more popularity.  By this popularity, her business growing profits and an increasing number of agents who marketed the products for her door to door.

Madam C.J.Walker achieved the maximum success in her business due to her efforts put in her business and her clear goals to achieve. Even she face the hair falls problem, she did not lose her hope and keep trying to solve the problem. From that, we can know that she is a very hardworking person to achieve something success in her life and her career. She always knows exactly what she wants and what she is working toward in her business. Moreover, she always makes a good decision to commit time and resources needed to run her business. This is why she had a great success in her business and was the first American woman to become a self – made millionaire.

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