November 25, 2013
Author and entrepreneur Michael Gerber was quoted as saying, “Businesses fail not because their dream is too big, but because their dream is too small and too realistic to sustain the life they want.” Simply put, the measure of your success (financial and otherwise) is in direct proportion to how big your vision is. It’s the Multiplier Effect at work. If your vision for the work you do is all about you—you performing the service or creating the product, you handling sales, you taking care of bookkeeping… all so that you can earn some money—you’re working at a factor of 1. You. But that’s not where business growth lies. Business multiplies when you impact more people, when you transform more lives. Are your vision and mission big enough to encompass more? When you sketch out your business growth for 2013, do you plot it based on your current capacity? The number and qualifications of the people you now have on staff? Do you hamper your vision with present reality? Or are you thinking in multiples…
Continue ReadingI attended a business roundtable just before Thanksgiving. We were asked: “What’s one of the biggest obstacles you’ve encountered growing your business?” The answer: Spending years targeting the wrong audience. Trying to generate revenue from…
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