Perspectives on Business Success
Succeeding in business is all about perspective. To be more precise, it’s often about benefiting from a variety of perspectives. On the one hand, every great business starts with a dream, and you always need that type of panoramic view to keep your company thriving and your people motivated. You’ve got to be a big-picture person. You can’t spend all day dreaming yourself to success, of course. But you have to take a broad view of where you are and where you want to be, in six months, a year, five years. When you think like that, you discover opportunities — opportunities that would otherwise pass you by. On the other hand you also need to understand the fine details. If that’s something that you, as the founder, cannot do, then you definitely need to find a skilled professional who can perform that function. After all, business is about profit; and you can easily lose track of your revenue stream and margins if you’re not paying attention to each line of a spreadsheet. In addition, yo
