Small business owner or President: Which one are You?

Do you run your small business as the founder or as the president? Most people will answer that since they’re in charge ot it all, they’re both at once. Here’s the problem. 

Many small business founders will take care of the everyday activities since they often do not have enough staff to deligate to. Soon, they get cought up in the day to day activities and don’t concentrate on the big picture.

Without looking at the big picture, you don’t focus on how you can improve what you’re offering, how you can increase revenue and how you can scale your business up.

Act like the president! Take a step back and look at your business from above. Your business is your chess board and it’s your move to take your business to the next level. Instead of looking at what your doing well, look at what you’re doing wrong and see where you can improve. Although it’s probably the hardest thing ever to find the negatives in your business for emotional reasons, if you want to grow, you must remove some of the emotional connection to be able to remove biases and focus on strategy.

Keep working on a strategy to grow and let your staff take care of the day to day activities. If your sooooo busy that your current staff isn’t able to keep up and you have to work full time on  day to day activities, consider hiring another employee since he would just be replacing you from doing the day to day work. If you’re alone, and hiring an employee is not feasible yet, make sure to schedule a daily or weekly time to look over what you can improve on.

A successful business is one that knows what it’s doing wrong and fixes it and not the ones that look at all the things they’re doing well and ignoring the obvious problems.

What’s wrong with your business?