File:Business Lessons From Dwight Schrute (The Office)

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Business lessons from Dwight Schrute in The Office. Business 101 with Dwight as we look at Dwight's businesses and side-hustles, and the business lessons we can all use ourselves.

For fans of The Office, Dwight, or anyone interested in business and entrepreneurship, this Unlikely Mentors episode is for you.

When it comes to learning business lessons, people often look to Steve Jobs, Richard Branson, Elon Musk, but, not very often do they turn to Dwight Schrute.

And yet, he is a serial entrepreneur.

In fact, one of the biggest differences with entrepreneurs compared to everyone else, is that they are constantly looking for opportunities, and this is definitely something Dwight is great at. Because ultimately to be successful in business, it’s normally about solving a problem for someone.

But what’s perhaps most impressive, is how Dwight looks to do this in such creative ways. For example, when Daryll says he needs a gym, Dwight tries to use the resources he already has, to come up with a profitable solution:

And you might be thinking, ‘dude, I saw the episode, the gym didn’t work’, well that’s the other thing with successful entrepreneurs - they don’t let failure hold them back.

As Michael Scott once said, you miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. Dwight knows that each unsuccessful idea is putting him one step closer to a winning idea, because you learn more from those failures anyway. Just look at how his out-of-the-box thinking helps him create an extremely low-cost event that actually does really well.

But, perhaps one of the best business lessons we can take from Dwight comes down to basic supply and demand. This is simple retail arbitrage, and flipping products like this is something we can all do to make more money. For example, buying discounted items in bulk at a lower price, and then perhaps selling them online on a marketplace where the price is a lot higher.

But, of course, these are all side hustles, Dwight’s main business is his hotel and farm.

But one of the most important skills he has which that allows him to be successful in business, is his sales skills.

Dwight is regularly the top salesman, and for anyone in business, sales is a crucial high-income skill, as even if you’re not selling on the phone, the sales skillset of being able to persuade people to your way of thinking, that’s vital in business. In fact, I’d argue it’s vital in everyday life for all of us. Because, whether you like it or not, we all have to use some form of sales, and so learning sales will almost undeniably increase your income.

However, perhaps the business trait you have to admire most, and something we all have to try and emulate, is the way in which dwight sets a goal of becoming the regional manager, and works tirelessly to get there - despite all the distractions, times where it looked unattainable, he kept going, and eventually that persistence paid off. Dwight genuinely hustles really hard to hit his goal, and I think we can all take inspiration from that.

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