You have been disrupted.

Those are 4 words that every single person in business today should be muttering like some reassuring reminder of fates hand.

In my business I am working with entrepreneurs all the time. And we work on various goals for each of their individual companies.

One of the things we actively do is to remove the fear associated with those 4 words above. And let me tell you that part is not so easy. Matter of fact it can be downright hard for some of the entrepreneurs we have in our organization.

I will share with you one of the things we use to help alleviate some of the fear that is associated with disruption.

I ask my entrepreneurs a simple question first. ..

Your business was disrupted. Now what do you do?

You see in our camp. We believe in facing fear head on. Not letting it run roughshod over your thought processes. So we plan for the disruption. Because trust me it is going to all of us eventually. So why not plan for it. EXPECT IT! PREPARE FOR IT.

Now you are asking yourself how do I prepare for what I can't even see coming? You have to be always working on one of two things for your business and industry.

Innovation or Imitation. Either innovate new ways your business could work that maybe improves processes, people or your product/services. Or imitate best practices of those ahead of you in the pile.

You see the days of all resting on our laurels and doing the same thing for eternity are DEAD and they are never coming back. So you have the option .. to do the above or become irrelevant to the world / industry / clients / customers.

Trust me there is no middle ground here. At any rate this is the challenge that we all face. At least we are all in this thing together!! :)