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For your business to move forward,
you've got to look to the future...
Your business success hinges on a
variety of factors -- 99% of which are within your control. This means that how successful your business is depends mostly on the things that you do.
Is that news to you? It shouldn't be.
Many people forget this as they get
caught up in the day-to-day grind of making their business work and be successful. They get tunnel-vision, focusing on the daily events to the point that they actually spend the bulk of their time reacting to things happening in (and to) their company.
Think about what happens you do this.
What's the result? The result for most people is that, if they are constantly reacting to things, they are not being proactive and creating/developing other opportunities for their businesses.
So what do you do? Well, here are a
few suggestions...
Realize that a problem today is a
problem tomorrow unless you fix it. |
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Getting Down To Business
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PRE-Act for Your Business Success
By Jim Allen
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These companies don't react after
the fact, they PREact, changing before the shifts, so that when the shifts occur they are already there with a product or service that the consumer wants.
Your business will go in the direction
you take it, and that direction will be whichever one you happen to be looking at the time. So don't spend time looking back, and don't spend every moment on right now. Do, however, take a good look at what lies ahead.
Contributed by:
Jim Allen
©1999 Jim M. Allen
Email: Jim@CoachJim.com
Website: CoachJim.com
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Don't just react to problems, over react
to them. You don't just want to fix the problem "this time," you want to fix it so that it can never occur again. This is not always easy but if you don't strive to eliminate the problem completely you risk having to face it again.
Not every issue requires -- or
deserves -- your attention.
Delegate, delegate, delegate.
Hire people who can deal with these
issues, then let them deal with them.
Frequently, business owners have all
sorts of employees that they just "can't trust" with one issue or another. That indicates a problem with the employer and their hiring practices, not the employee.
Reinvent your business... daily,
monthly, yearly.
As our lives change due to technology,
cultural shifts, economic disturbances, etc., so too must our businesses shift and change to be able to continuously provide products and services of value.
Businesses that remain successful over
the long haul are the businesses that anticipate these shifts. |