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Stay Focused. Be Flexible.

Understand that your business, your product, your marketing, even your life won’t turn out the way you planned. I think one of the big challenges with a start up business is, knowing whether to act on a new idea immediately or put it on the shelf for later. The problem is, some great ideas can take you away from your focus on your current goals. New business owners can hop from one suggestion to the next, making significant changes after getting the company started. This wastes time and creates additional expense that you need to avoid. Ask yourself, “is this new idea or suggestion helping the business to reach it’s goals or diverting valuable resources away from these goals”. However, once in a while, an idea or suggestion comes along that must be embraced and acted upon immediately. Your minds and plans must be flexible enough to make those critical changes.

So stay focused, be open and plan for some changes.

Posted on Thursday, June 5th, 2008 at 10:54 am and is filed under Card Cafe. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.