Tips for SME managers and entrepreneurs
By Jayadev Menon
People are constantly in fire-fighting mode. Don’t we hear such sentences repeated often by ourselves and people around us?- I just don’t have the time
- I wish I could do a course to improve my managerial skill
- I can’t meet you this week
- I am running behind schedule
- I have not read a book since I left college.
- I wish I had seventeen hands and 2 heads.
- 24 hours are not enough
These individuals constantly crib about not been able to cope, but do nothing about it. Their situation is best explained by this story I read in a book written by a self-help guru :
A gentleman was visiting his friend; their conversation was being interrupted by the whining and moaning of the family’s dog and so he asked his friend why the animal would not keep quite.
The friend replied: The stupid mutt is lying on top of a nail.
The surprised visitor asked: Why wouldn’t he move?
To which his friend replied: It’s not hurting bad enough!
It’s like that with most of us – we are waiting for the condition to reach a crisis point before we act. When someone else talks about some chore or problem that is lying unattended we would wisely remark: “Prevention is better than cure!” But that wisdom somehow does not hold true for us!
Why do people make statements of the type mentioned above?



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