{"id":14063,"date":"2016-05-16T09:00:07","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T13:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=14063"},"modified":"2016-05-16T09:48:15","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T13:48:15","slug":"what-amish-businesses-do-differently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2016\/what-amish-businesses-do-differently\/","title":{"rendered":"What Amish Businesses Do Differently"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/051616_1345_WhatAmishBu1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Amish are a group of traditionalists that avoid modern technology, and end their formal education after the eighth grade. They&#8217;re also business geniuses, writes Tim Stuhldreher:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>More than 65% of American businesses fail, but less than 10% of Amish ones do.<\/li>\n<li>Contrary to their reputation as an insular community, these businesses cater to mainstream consumers and have wide appeal.<\/li>\n<li>The lack of formal education seems to help. The brightest students don&#8217;t go on to study to be lawyers, doctors, or accountants. Instead they can really only either farm or start a small business \u2013 and many opt for the latter.<\/li>\n<li>Given that the Amish are disdainful of technology like air conditioning or decadent offices, their companies have low operating costs.<\/li>\n<li>In fact avoiding technology in general forces the community to be inventive and creative in everyday living.<\/li>\n<li>It is also easier to build a shared vision. Businesses know that their employees will share values and cultures, allowing for lower friction work environments.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read some of the other factors that lead to their success over <a href=\"http:\/\/lancasteronline.com\/business\/local_business\/the-amish-effect-unique-cultural-strengths-help-plain-sect-businesses\/article_ba60c8e4-e6dc-11e5-9cc7-73775e680585.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/lancasteronline.com\/business\/local_business\/the-amish-effect-unique-cultural-strengths-help-plain-sect-businesses\/article_ba60c8e4-e6dc-11e5-9cc7-73775e680585.html\">Lancaster Online<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/\">Marginal Revolution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Amish are a group of traditionalists that avoid modern technology, and end their formal education after the eighth grade. They&#8217;re also business geniuses, writes Tim Stuhldreher: More than 65% of American businesses fail, but less than 10% of Amish ones do. Contrary to their reputation as an insular community, these businesses cater to mainstream [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/051616_1345_WhatAmishBu1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14063"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14067,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14063\/revisions\/14067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}