The Cruel Sea
The tides of business are constantly moving, taking your business with them wherever they will flow. If you don’t keep control and be mindfully preparing for what may lie ahead, then while you’re gazing at the beautiful blue sky above you, you may get caught unawares by the tanker that is just out of your sight or the storms that are forming on the horizon.
A good ship’s crew would be taking this time of calm to repair the canvas, scrub the decks, look to the ship’s maintenance and even sections that could be improved, all in preparation for the storms that will inevitably come.
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How Well Do YOU Measure Up?
There are so many different measurements that you can put in place in your business.
You can measure almost anything you decide as somewhere, someone will have found a method or formula you can implement. You can spend days on the internet, fascinating yourself with new metrics that you’d never even thought of. The internet is the biggest library in the world and full of exciting ideas and methods that you can use to fill up your monthly management reports, if that turns you on.
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The Power of Teams
One of the areas that we concentrate on when helping business owners triple their business is the skill of building dynamic, power teams. They are essential to cope with the extra workload that you’re going to be taking on.
It is a team where the members trust each another, who all work towards a common goal, who hold one another accountable for making things happen and support each other where they can. It was Kurt Lewin, a social psychologist and change management expert from the early 1940s, that is credited with coining the term "group dynamics” and it’s these behaviours the are reflected in the dynamic power team. Further research has found that when these teams are working together, its members are nearly twice as creative as an average team, making them a great asset for any company.
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