business challenges 2017

My latest light-bulb moment was born at a community event in celebration of the opening of a local play park, two doors down from where we live. It was a small intimate community event, the kind of thing you normally go to on a Sunday because it is local and well, free. I had a wonderful time mingling with the locals and getting to know the other parents better. Yet I was surprised to hear different languages around me and to observe different ethnic and age groups living in our area; partly because most of them are private people who keep to themselves, but mostly because I had a complete misconception about our local community demographic. And what was my (incorrect) assumptions based on? Well, mostly hearsay and ignorance I guess!

I had such a lovely time at the park that day getting to know my community that it has inspired me to take a good look at the other assumptions I operate on, especially bringing it home to how we run our business. Read more