Do you expect that your business will operate without problems?
Are you a type of person that all of your time spend to solve different problems that some of them always repeat?
Are you have too much time for solving same problems repeatedly?
Maybe your company will be without the problems, but only if your business is alone without customers, without competitors, operate outside of ecosystems, don’t have employees, don’t solve other people’s problems, don’t improve itself…
Is it possible? In cases of successful business, it’s impossible!
If it is true, it means that your business is dead. You don’t take actions. You don’t grow your company. You don’t try to satisfy your customers. You don’t try to improve your business.
Remember one thing, you will not have problems only when your business is death. Probably, you didn’t like that.
All the problems faced by you or your business has their own sources, their own causes. If you solve the problem without eliminating the problem cause, then you cannot expect that the same problem will not occur in the future.
Because of that, if you don’t want the same problem to occur again in the future, you’ll need to eliminate all causes of the current problem.
You are not a fire fighter. You are an entrepreneur who prevents fire in your business. You are the person that when solving the problems always go to one step further – to find causes of the problems and eliminate them for the possibilities of future occurrence.
This week small business advice: Solve your problems permanently, but also find causes and eliminate them. In such a way, you will make a continuous improvement of your business, and you can focus on new problems that will bring new improvements. It is much better to prevent than to solve!
[…] Problems are always part of the businesses. The task of an entrepreneur is to detect and solve them. But besides discovering and removing the problems entrepreneurs have to pay attention to their preventive removal, so they would never occur again to harm the business. […]