| Inflexibility is one of the deadly mistakes that can | | | | increased speed and efficiency. 8. Rewrite the |
| prevent small business growth or to cause a small | | | | standard definition of a live horse. 9. Declare the |
| business to fail. A successful performance | | | | horse to be better, faster, and cheaper when |
| strategy for growing small business must include | | | | dead. 10. Promote the dead horse to a |
| flexibility. After all, if you don't embrace change | | | | supervisory position. Most of you have probably |
| you will be run over by it. How come it is very | | | | seen these solutions enacted at some point in |
| difficult for many of you to become flexible and | | | | your business career or life. How do you deal with |
| change? Your resistance to change comes from | | | | the challenge of inflexibility? When your horse is |
| your thinking which in turn is a reflection of your | | | | dead and your inflexibility is causing you to hold |
| attitude. Having a good perspective on change and | | | | onto something that isn't working, dismount. Small |
| being flexible is something that must be practiced. | | | | business coaching is about helping people to learn |
| I came across this solution for dealing with | | | | how to dismount, let go of thoughts and |
| inflexibility. It comes from one of my favorite | | | | processes that aren't working, and to bury them. |
| authors, John Maxwell. Go to his website and find | | | | Only once the things that don't work are buried or |
| a book of his to read. It will be well worth your | | | | put in a safe place, may you move forward. |
| time. The following shows the humorous, and | | | | Think of the old western movies. The cowboy |
| often truthful responses, that come when people | | | | rides into town and his horse gets shot out from |
| are inflexible. Inflexibility is the enemy of personal | | | | under him. If he is to survive he must dismount |
| growth, success and achievement. The Top Ten | | | | and get on a new horse. That is the continual |
| Strategies For Dealing With A Dead Horse 1. Buy | | | | challenge of business. Develop the skill of |
| a stronger whip. 2. Change riders 3. Appoint a | | | | dismounting and then mounting new horses. This |
| committee to study the horse. 4. Appoint a team | | | | is your new performance strategy. Embrace |
| to revive the horse. 5. Send out a memo | | | | change. Embrace flexibility. When you do, you will |
| declaring the horse isn't really dead. 6. Hire an | | | | be able to mount a live horse and gallop forward |
| expensive consultant to find "the real problem." 7. | | | | to the success you desire. |
| Harness several dead horses together for | | | | |