Are you a leader for today?
Roger Smith
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If you are in business, leadership is one of those intangible tangibles that makes it work.
This is March 2020, running your SME is now all about survival. There are not many organisations today, that are not in survival mode.
Worldwide, everyone who is a leader or has a leadership mentality will come through better, stronger and improved.
Those who do not, will not!
The difference between your business, from January 2020 to January 2021, will be so different it may be unrecognizable.
Stepping up, making decisions (good and bad), deciding the fate of your organisation now comes down to good if not brilliant leadership.
We are in undiscovered country and if you think about it nothing is off the table.
More importantly, no one knows the outcome.
It is that bad that no one is willing to predict what will be the results of what is happening, right now, worldwide, in the future.
All I know, it WILL be different!
The faith in our leadership capability from both our self and those people around us is critical and essential to our survival.
The leaders of tomorrow, after this crisis will be the people who looked outside the box.
Those who thought differently!
Those who developed business systems or capabilities that have come out of necessity.
Out of fear.
Our capability to change, our responsibility to our organisation, staff, and clients, and our leadership will get us through this.
We are told that the leaders of today are there because they saw a necessity - Microsoft, Apple, Google, Facebook, Uber, Airbnb and the like - all saw a need for small change.
There are now hundreds if not millions of people who are either out of a job, on paid / unpaid leave (till that runs out) and everyone is trying to make ends meet on a shrinking budget.
Some of them are already thinking "I do not want to be in this situation again how can I stop it?"
These are the next leaders.
Leaders born of desperation and frustration!
The next leaders will be true leaders, not because they saw a need for small change but because they knew it was critical that large scale change was part of our survival.
Are you a new leader?
How are you leading?
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4 年Roger I think anyone who encourages small business owners to thing ahead is a leader. There are simple steps a business owner can take to get a handle on their options now and for when the upturn kicks in.