It’s Not Personal – It’s Business
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008Yes I agree that to be successful in business you have to make a lot of difficult decisions on a daily, if not, hourly basis.
Those “hard decisions” include terminating the kid you really like who is bright and shows so much promise but can’t seem to ever get to work on time, puts baking cookies with his family at Christmas over coming to work for the Holiday sales crunch and finally pushes you to the brink by forging a doctor’s note so he can call in sick when he’s really not.
Another difficult decision involves trying to be polite to a prospective vendor who is selling the most horrible looking headbands in unbelievably unattractive colors. I never want to be intentionally rude, disrespectful or unkind, so I always decline the opportunity to tie up my limited funds in a probable slow mover by saying I don’t have the budget. Which I don’t – at least not for a guaranteed deadbeat product line.
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