Your are in the midst of the economic whatsit… and you are doing what?

perhaps you are planning what to do… Pulling your hair out as prices alter before your eyes, competitors cut their margins to keep afloat, petrol prices go up (again) staff are nervous and looking elsewhere, your partners and or shareholders are asking questions, your accounting team are fudging (oops read working with) your numbers, suppliers want to be paid…. and so forth and so on.

STOP!

Ask this one question… Is it any different (REALLY) to “normal business”, so someone turned up the volume on a few things… Amazing how that makes you think, worry, get nervous/anxious.

As the pressure rises, do you think “Can it get any worse?” Do you feel humbled by the bushfire and flood crisis in Australia thinking so many have lost so much and you are ok… Is all this pushing your threshold to the limit? If it’s not, what will!

Note folks this is the status quo, if it’s not the environment – financial crisis – staffing issues – bushfires – floods – customers pulling their heads in etc… (the list goes on) then it’s something else.

Therefore the resultant writing on the wall is “it’s getting tougher to do business” so you had better have heeded the warnings the business guru’s put out ages ago and innovate. (Read the ability to go left not right, or up not down.)

If you can do that chances are you can make some headway.