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Perseverance
Perseverance is the capacity to keep going even when things are challenging. Let us understand it from the
true story of Anuj Mundhra.
Anuj Mundhra is the founder of Jaipurkurti.com, that manufactures and sells suits, kurtis, fusion wear, and a
host of other apparel items. The B2C company even exports to countries such as the UK, US, Australia, Malaysia
and a few others. Anuj started the business in 2012 with very limited resources and pooled in ` 50,000 from
close friends and later took a loan from the bank to seed his business. Anuj began with ten sewing machines
for sewing kurtis and suits. Vandana Mundra, his wife, would design kurtis, that were then coloured, printed,
stitched, sampled, and so on in a manufacturing unit in Jaipur's Kartarpur Industrial Area. Anuj got listed on
Snapdeal and Jabong and started selling in-house manufactured items on these platforms. In the first year
itself, the company clocked a turnover of ` 59 lakh. Anuj claims that, while there was less competition in the
early years, running an online company was a huge challenge.
After reading Anuj’s story, you realise that perseverance can be built in the following ways:

• Never giving up when faced with a difficult situation
• Working hard to achieve your goal
• Learning from failures

Organisational Skills
The capacity to make the best use of one’s time, energy, and resources to attain one’s goals is referred to
as organisational skills. Improving these organisational skills helps an entrepreneur become successful. The
following are examples of organisational skills:
Time Management
Time management is the practise of planning and maintaining conscious control over the amount of time
spent on specific activities. It is the capacity to make good use of one's time. Time management entails the
following tasks.
• Thorough planning

• Goal-setting
• Establishing deadlines
• Delegating significant work tasks to other members of a team

• Prioritising the most crucial activities
Setting Goals
A goal is a destination that we wish to reach. It is the target or outcome that we seek from an action. Goals
encourage us to work harder and finish what we start in order to meet the aim. It provides us direction and
usually motivates us to work harder. The most significant distinction between the first and second round of a
game is that you have a goal for the second round. That aim would have motivated you to work harder and
smarter in the second round.

Efficiency
The capacity to accomplish tasks well, successfully, and without wasting
time is referred to as efficiency. You make better use of your team
members’ abilities in the second round of a game. The team's efforts,
money, and time, can be used competently to attain efficiency.

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