A lot is written on running businesses, much of it crap, some of it great. I’m hoping that while this may be unorganised and sometimes suffer from a lack of perspective, it will at least clear my head and provide some central place to put more general ideas about how things should be done.
In western countries, running businesses isn’t all that incredibly hard, especially if you have some average intelligence, an ability to learn, and are prepared to spend some time on it. When things work overall, it’s possible to see things that on their own may not be especially enjoyable as enjoyable nevertheless, because they are small parts of a bigger, fulfilling push.
It’s not completely easy, however, to do something amazing, well and so on. This, I think, takes a little more thinking, imagination, and some level of self control over how one works. There are also notable traps that most people probably fall into to some extent, being both conceptual and procedural. The procedural relate most often, I think, to doing things that waste time, or required things in such a way that they waste time. Conceptual more to misapplied focus, a misunderstanding of what’s important or required to get somewhere, and so on.
So this is the first post in a series that will outline how I / we do business, what we try to do, and perhaps some space will be cleared in both my mind and the readers’.
The first piece of advice is a general one: be clever, flexible, and aware that a whole lot more is possible than you probably think is.
