What Doesn't Kill you WILL MAKE YOU STRONGER --

They say what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

Well that is especially true of economic set-backs, if they are looked at properly.

For many in our world right now there is a sense of "Oh NO -- How will we survive?" Well that mindset is associated with the "Glass Half Empty" view. Of course there are questions about survival. Of course there are questions of what comes next. Those are real concerns.

I want to talk about the "Glass Half Full" folk. The ones that look at the current situation and as Erma Bombeck would say, make lemonade when life serves up lemons.

These folk look at slow times as an opportunity to do something different. You see in most small to mid-sized business the management is busy everyday working in the business -- they are looking at deliverables, billables, payables and work back logs -- ALL IMPORTANT when running a business. But they get so busy on those important things that they neglect the most important -- working on the business.

It is at slow times that Senior Management in going some place companies step back and look at the long view -- the "Where are we going" and "Where have we been." They take the time to set a new course for future growth and new opportunities --

The industry will come back, it always has and always will. It may change in size and shape -- and that is where we get to look at the current state of our companies and determine how to best fit that changed marketplace -- Let's face it, Dinosaurs went extinct because they failed to change with the environment -- and some businesses may do the same. Let's make certain it isn't ours.