As I had a long gap in my blogging, I’ve decided to have a look at my older reference sources and see what my fellow bloggers have been doing lately. Now I have something to say about Nataly Kogan’s post “Business is Personal and Anyone Who Tells You Otherwise is Lying“.
She says that from her experience, man are taking business failure more easily than women. She says she saw men loosing “millions of dollars of other people’s money and walk away without feeling any personal responsibility. “It’s business,” they’d say.”
Well, I do take my business VERY personal. And I think most of small business entrepreneurs do the same.
- If you lose a customer (or maybe the sales guy you hired does), well, it’s your fault. You either didn’t hired the right sale people, either you didn’t help him enough
- If you don’t deliver (no matter the reason, maybe the production stopped because of lack of supplies, maybe the weather was bad) you will take it personal: you didn’t plan well enough
- Didn’t make enough profit? Well, maybe you should have worked longer hours
- Your employees are leaving. You should take it personal – you couldn’t sell your business idea to them well enough.
And mostly, if your business fails, it means YOU did something wrong. So yes, small business entrepreneurs take things personally (and especially when they don’t have enough money to pay the bills)
you have inspired me to write a report on this info thsnk you very much