Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Too tired

You sometimes wonder just how tired you have to be before
performance, the excellent performance we are all trying to deliver, starts to
decline.

The owner looked drawn as he said to me that “Well sales are
pants – all the marketing in the world won’t bring customers in to spend money
at the moment.”
At the renewable energy business the director seemed
resigned to recent changes in legislation as she hissed, ”You can always rely
on the government to mess up any exciting new business initiative.”
And the transport company are contemplating fuel price
changes in the pipeline and wondering whether, after the next hike in diesel,
the business will continue to be viable, let alone profitable.

There is no doubt that stress, weariness and even depression
can stem directly from adverse trading conditions. The same symptoms however,
can also be caused by unrealistic business and / or personal material wealth
expectations.

It is a wise person that knows the difference.

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