Seven Steps to Getting it Done and Again | Extraordinary Business
Business management is the act of making sure that things get done – repeatedly and profitably. Many times, business leaders find themselves in a position where they have developed a team that seems to click well in a certain area of operations, only to have someone leave. Upon hiring someone new, that person will typically receive some sort of on-the-job training and is, trained by the other members of the team. Unfortunately, like the game “whispering down the lane” as the information is translated from one person to the next, some of it is lost, misinterpreted or just plain wrong.
Ultimately, this costs the company time, money and productivity. The solution is as simple as writing down how things are done.
Have you ever been to a store or worked with a business owner or a business that seemed to have a “think-small” or “scarcity” mentality. What I mean by that is that there are certain business owners who spend so much energy simply trying to survive that they never get anywhere. It is as though they have a boat with a hole in the bottom and instead of investing in repairing the hole, they focus all of their energies on bailing water out of the boat. What they often miss out on is the fact that even if they don’t immediately have the resources to repair the hole, completely, if they are the only one bailing, there is no one sailing the ship.
One of the parenting techniques my mom and dad used after my “everyone else is doing it” line of reasoning was, “if all your friends were jumping off a bridge, would you?” I, of course, having been reduced to a cliché, would have to say, “no.” Great. Another one bites the dust. However, that cliché probably saved my butt more times than hot. (Note: I have only used that line a couple of times with my own children. On each of them.)
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