Yesterday’s birthday celebrations for 94 and 81 year olds, my mother-in-law’s neighbors.
Making tough business decisions should be easy.
Why?
Because making tough decisions never goes away.
To thrive in this harsh reality, as well as build, maintain, and enhance your brand, organizational blueprints are mission critical. Cultural architecture is another way of saying organizational blueprints.
Yesterday (Friday) a tough answer came in from an easy decision i made Monday. The special price offer from a (Lee Cockerell) referal came with structure conditions.
A five day deadline opportunity to commit
Upfront payment in full
The client declined.
Losing business on cost is the price that’s paid to build a reputation, externally and maybe more importantly, internally.
Do what you say you’re going to do.
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The next entrepreneurial lesson could be the theory of walking away from both little and big opportunities).
Being an entrepreneur can be a blind spot when it comes to people looking in from the outside. While the benefits seem greater for the entrepreneur than for working for someone else, the “benefits” do not exist for any entrepreneur until one succeeds at creating and maintaining a thriving business model.
You can start something, but statistics tell a sad story for the majority.
One of the biggest early lessons i’ve learned is:
Only patience begets patience.
When negotiating with other alpha dog executives, egos (and fear) can destroy common sense logic. This can drag things out to the point of exposing unfavorable working conditions – a diseased organizational culture.
Past failures, experience with hurtful, untrustworthy partners and clients – all of this builds a wall. A wall that may only crumble if one is willing to walk away.
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