Over all the years that I have worked on creating and building businesses, I have come to see that my role as an entrepreneur is that of the "Chief Problem Solver"!
Whether I am assisting a client solve their problem by selling them the product or service of my business or solving a problem in the logistical chain of providing the service or product to my customer, how successful I my business will be and survive is based on the efficiency and effectiveness that I solve the problems and issues facing it.
I have said for many years that it is not the product, service or technical know how that puts a business in a class of its own, it is the ability of the businesses leadership to quickly deal with the businesses short comings and face the issues in front of it.
If you want your company to grow, their will be many growing pains and challenges, lack of cash flow, payment to suppliers and the supply cycle, employing new staff to facilitate the growth and handle the growth with new customers and suppliers, and these are just to mention a few.
It is very easy to sit in a position of being outside of the circumstances and removed from the emotion charging the relationships and encounters saying what should be done. A great skill of the "Chief Problem Solver" is to take a step back and see the big picture. The BIG picture enables you to evaluate the choices and the consequences of those choices so that you can make choices that direct and guide the company in the direction that you would want.
In a small business you may not have the funds to employee the brightest minds as employees, however with the growth of the modern business environment has birthed the great supply of the smartest minds. Perhaps hiring Solution Providers that are not quite so emotionally attached to the business can assist your business grow and achieve the goals!
What challenges and problems are you and the business facing right now? How many different solutions can you think of?
Let's be business leaders fulfilling the role as "Chief Solution Providers"!
Whether I am assisting a client solve their problem by selling them the product or service of my business or solving a problem in the logistical chain of providing the service or product to my customer, how successful I my business will be and survive is based on the efficiency and effectiveness that I solve the problems and issues facing it.
I have said for many years that it is not the product, service or technical know how that puts a business in a class of its own, it is the ability of the businesses leadership to quickly deal with the businesses short comings and face the issues in front of it.
If you want your company to grow, their will be many growing pains and challenges, lack of cash flow, payment to suppliers and the supply cycle, employing new staff to facilitate the growth and handle the growth with new customers and suppliers, and these are just to mention a few.
It is very easy to sit in a position of being outside of the circumstances and removed from the emotion charging the relationships and encounters saying what should be done. A great skill of the "Chief Problem Solver" is to take a step back and see the big picture. The BIG picture enables you to evaluate the choices and the consequences of those choices so that you can make choices that direct and guide the company in the direction that you would want.
In a small business you may not have the funds to employee the brightest minds as employees, however with the growth of the modern business environment has birthed the great supply of the smartest minds. Perhaps hiring Solution Providers that are not quite so emotionally attached to the business can assist your business grow and achieve the goals!
What challenges and problems are you and the business facing right now? How many different solutions can you think of?
Let's be business leaders fulfilling the role as "Chief Solution Providers"!
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