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Trends and Changes Can Help or Hurt Your Small Business

'Designing Strategies' eNewsletter May - June 2018 Volume 15 - Issue 83 Being aware of what is happening around you – and your small business – on a regular basis is critical to your success. Far too many small businesses get blindsided by changes coming their way. They may not be paying attention or fail to ‘read the tea leaves’ correctly. Or, they may have a smug feeling of invincibility, believing nothing can take them down. Those who fall into one or more of these categories, soon find themselves out of business. Remember: [...]

By Terri L. Maurer|2019-01-27T01:01:02-05:00May 25th, 2018|Strategic Management, Trends|

Strategies for Change: Be Alert, Be Aware, Be Strategic

The world as we know it is coming to an end! Sounds an awful lot like the childhood story, Chicken Little, doesn’t it? Remember that story about Henny-Penny running around the barn yard telling everyone the sky is falling after some innocent thing fell on her head? Definitely not a good strategy for dealing with change. Unlike every other day, something new and different happened - something changed. Strategies for change should be top of mind for every small business owner who is passionate about the success of their firm. Notice the key words in that first sentence are "...as [...]

By Terri L. Maurer|2017-08-16T15:39:58-04:00June 20th, 2017|Strategic Management, Strategy, Trends|

Embrace Opportunities for Change to Grow Your Company

Did you ever think about just using change to grow and move your business forward or to a new level? There is no doubt that businesses have faced a lot of change over the past several years. There is no way that all of the change we have experienced will correct itself and return to what we considered normal or business as usual. Change is just that: change - the act of becoming different. Rather than waiting hopelessly for normal, or whatever you were used to, to come back, a wiser strategy would be to use seize change to grow [...]

By Terri L. Maurer|2017-05-19T23:42:42-04:00August 8th, 2013|Growth, Strategic Management|