Running Your Business is more Art than Science!

Sometimes it’s easy to complicate things.

And sometimes it’s also easy to look for a silver bullet – to think that someone else has a solution to your problems or a secret formula for success. To put your business in the hands of an expert, to leave it to them and your business magically leaps forward.

That is so tempting to believe that will make everything all work out.

It’s so easy to forget that no one knows your business like you, that business solutions are right under your nose, that you have insights and skills that leave the “professionals” in your dust. You might even have experienced this yourself, by hiring a consultant, bristling with solutions, case studies and great business credentials, who actually doesn’t add any value to your business at all.

I’ve just seen a couple of cases where clients didn’t have enough faith  in themselves to implement some solutions.  They sourced a well recommended consultant and then left them to it.  The result?  The unsupervised consultant produced a result that threw the baby out with the bath water – creating a solution that had nothing to do with the company vision or values.  The business owners had to unravel his work and do it all by themselves, losing time and money in the process.

You know, sometimes it’s great to remember that business is really more about art than science. That business is done by the people who just go and do the business, not by the people who anal-yse how they did it. That the so-called expert may be great at talking theory, but lousy at execution.

Maybe it’s time to take some credit for knowing about your business and start looking for some of your answers from within. Not just within yourself, but within your staff, within your customers and within your suppliers. There are answers everywhere.

It’s more art than science.

Let us know about some of your artful business thinking or some of your experiences with consultants!

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