Before leaving for Louisville,
review and reassess your business
■ BY JEFF SHEETS
FEATURE STORY | Best Practices
22 SEPTEMBER 2015 OUTDOOR POWER EQUIPMENT www.outdoorpowerequipment.com
Now is a great time to review what happened during the first
eight months of the year. Reason: You are still close enough to
what happened to remember the good and the bad!
Scientists say that the further we get away from bad events, es-
pecially ones occurring in our own personal lives, we tend to forget
how bad they were, and as time goes by, we sometimes forget them
altogether. Last night, I was having a conversation with my wife
about some events that occurred a few years ago, and I had a hard
time recalling the events because they weren't really memories that
I really wanted to keep. You may have the same problem remem-
bering something that occurred in your business from one year to
the next year, but be able to recall something today that happened
in January 2015 and put that to good use for 2016. However, the
further you get away from that January 2015 memory, the more
likely it won't be addressed. What I am trying to get at here is that
you need to review your business now, so that you don't gloss
over what happened this year and say, "We'll just do what we did
last year. We did okay." "Okay" is not what you are looking for.
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