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The noise. It’s everywhere. About what to do, to make you succeed in business, and in life.
Flashy videos on social media, filmed with and by “beautiful” people, proclaim any number of tips on how to improve performance. Or engage your team. Or woo your customers.
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The weight of being in business. The responsibility. The obligations. The worry.
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A supposed leader leads by berating. Threatening. Demanding.
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I’m at a conference on the Gold Coast recently. A two day event of consultants, from different disciplines and backgrounds. It’s boutique, in that there’s 50 in the room.
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All it takes is one person. Just one!
If they’re a positive personality, the impact on the family business can be astounding. They lift the entire business, not merely by their words, but their actions. Their presence even.
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Dad started the business 40 years ago. He and a mate join together and decide to give it a go. They’re working for a large organisation and not that enamoured with the pay, the conditions or the lifestyle. Plus, living where they live, each with a young family, it seems they never see their babies become toddlers, become school-age children.
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What never ceases to amaze me is how few business owners actually understand the numbers in their business. In fact, I’d go further and say a lot of them don’t know what they are at all.
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When a business is struggling, often it’s been that way for an extended period of time. It’s just that the owners, and predominantly the male owners, choose to ignore the warning signs.
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The afternoon is hot. The sun beats in through my west facing bedroom window.
At my desk, I’m wrapping my head around study and homework. Sticky-taped to the right side is a hand written calendar. Days of the week. Times in half hour blocks. From 4.30pm to 6.00pm, then 7.30pm until 9.00pm.
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If you don’t move a troublesome employee on, what’s the multiplier effect of your inaction?
On your staff?
On yourself?
On your clientele?