Still doing business like you did yesterday, last year, five years ago… STOP!
Are you still doing business like you did yesterday? If so you should stop and think a minute. Most businesses do not evolve. How many times do you hear of the little garage business killing the giants? I will answer for you – all the time.
It has been said that the sum of all technical knowledge doubles every two years (2006 stat) and will double every 72 hours by the end of 2010. It has also been said that the sum of all human knowledge doubles every five years (2001 stat) who knows what that time frame is now. The fact of the matter is that business as part of the human experience is changing so quickly that it is hard for us working adults to remember life before email, the Internet, texting, and social networking.
The only way to address the changing environment is to take a pause from your daily routines – even if you are a start-up and think about how you are doing business and try to understand how your clients are shifting and responding to the change taking place. Are they changing as fast? Are they being left behind? Can you help them change faster? To help them move faster do you need to change.
One fact is that by doing business the way you did it yesterday will not help you address the needs of tomorrow.
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