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Small businesses face more pressures than ever before.
Their struggle for success requires more focus and a broader
business perspective to move forward in today's business
environment than ever. For example, it seems like everything
is shrinking but the size and the amount of the competition.
Wal-Mart, Fed-ex, McDonalds, food marts in gas stations, and
even the Internet have shrunk geographies. Distant
competitors can ply their wares anywhere, with relative
ease, including in your back yard. Customer expectations are
that orders should be fulfilled fast – if not right now,
then at least by tomorrow morning. Information, once held by
a few experts is available to anyone, anytime on the
Internet. Consumers can talk to your customers in chat
rooms, or to your employees in special interest groups
(SIGs), or dig deep into information provided by your
competitors all from their computers. As with all of life,
the imperative is adapt or die. The difficulty for most
small businesses is that the pace of change is continuing to
pick up, while there are no more resources available
(people, available cash, technological expertise, etc.) than
there ever were.
On the other side of the coin, experts have found the people
involved to be passionate, resourceful and dedicated to what
they do. The solution to building a business that's vigorous
enough to compete and win, however, isn't to work harder.
The answer is to work smarter, to be savvy, and to find ways
to exploit more of the potential, laying unused in your
organization. You need to out think, not just out work the
competition. You need to become ever more sophisticated
about what you're trying to accomplish, not just the
"what" but the "how" of creating
success.
All of this can sound daunting, but it really isn't. Good
practices are almost always based on a foundation of
enlightened common sense. "Common sense" in that
resourceful people, acting to address changing conditions,
often do the right things. "Enlightened common
sense" refers to something more. Today, our instincts
have to be enriched by continuous learning, choices must be
considered and calculated based on rigorous thinking and
solid preparation. This doesn't refer to schooling, but to
an openness to new information and alternative perspectives.
Working only a portion of the formula limits the overall
results.
We want to bring a master-mind of ideas and solutions to
life through a network of professionals in their respective
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