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Business Growth 1
Flowers in vase
Place where solutions are born
Sweet home Chicago
By Paul R.
Lloyd
Your
company's flexibility
My friend Frank bolted
through my office door and knocked over a vase of English lavender
and delphiniums.
I looked at the
spreading puddle and the flowers making a display of themselves with
their stems exposed in front of the filing cabinets. “The water will
be good for the carpet.”
Frank flopped
to his knees, handkerchief in hand in a vain attempt to sop up the
liquid. I picked up an old shirt that’s been hanging on the back of
a spare desk chair since mid-winter and tossed it so that it half
landed on Frank and half draped in front of him to the floor.
While Frank
dabbed with the dead shirt, I poured the coffee. “You surviving the
economy?” I asked.
“I’ve been
putting into practice everything you’ve been teaching me.” Frank
stood up and grabbed his mug, steaming with the dark brew. “But I
have another question for you?”
“What’s that?”
“We talked
about how I need to be flexible and I’m cool with that, but what
about my company? Shouldn’t they be prepared to flex?”
“Absolutely.
It’s a huge advantage for smaller companies because you don’t have
to deal with the bureaucracy that often gets in the way of deal
making. Your company's willingness to be flexible eliminates
competitors who either can't be bothered or can't get a decision
made quickly.”
“Okay. So the
company has to be flexible to stay in the race?”
“As a business
owner, Frank, I will meet any reasonable request of my clients. And
I can make the decision right on the spot. Why would anyone want to
do business any other way?”
Frank stooped
down to pick up the flowers. “With a little added flexibility, my
company should be flowering soon.”
To read the
previous installments in this series, please visit…
1.
http://www.zuklloyd.com/news/news1.htm#Article
2.
http://www.zuklloyd.com/news05/biz_growth1.htm
3.
http://www.zuklloyd.com/news06/biz_growth2.htm
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