Boil potatoes. Remove from pan and Peel. Whoa that sound wrong. Paint woodwork, sand down and leave. Whoa that sounds wrong. Sometimes we just have to do things in the right order. If it is the first time we have done something how do we know what the right order is? Well we can guess like proper trial and error. We can ask someone else. We can read about it. Generally we would never do something we have never done before unless we do a bit of research and take some advice. Jamie Oliver makes money out of doing things by trial and error and then telling others the sequence of events. The recipe.
“Paint woodwork, sand down and leave.”
Business is the same. Owner run businesses face all sorts of problems which they have never seen before. They can adopt the strategies outlined above and hope for the best or they can adopt a strategy tried and tested by many. Do nothing!
Our experience has shown us that when owner run businesses ask for help in solving a problem they are asking because they do not know what to do. Or they have asked others and they are not happy with the solution. Having an opinion of course doesn’t mean you are right.
The difference with us is that our approaches are not guesses, How do we know? Well if we haven’t seen it before we say so. All our solutions have been tried and tested in real life solutions. And they work. The stuff we don’t know about we never go near.
“And they work.”
So the point of this blog is: If you ask for help make sure the solution offered has been tried before and trust it. Don’t trust anyone who has an answer for everything. Ask for evidence. Oh and if you ask for help and a solution is provided make sure you use it. Remember Jamie Oliver. Do any of his published recipes go wrong? No, but the ones he doesn’t share definitely have and he has the sense to share the working stuff not the failing stuff.
“Ask for evidence.”
