Use the Recession to Improve Your Business Results

Posted by Jim Connolly on 2 January, 2009  Email This Post -  Print This Post

Use our current economic downturn to challenge the “It Can’t Be Dones.”  Based on the last sentence, I’ll bet you already have a picture in your mind of one of your employees who frequently says that it can’t be done.  The “It Can’t Be Dones” are the unwritten “rules” that drive your organization.  It takes five days to ship an order.  We’re not set up to do big jobs.  We have to follow the ten step project management process.  Our management meeting is always four hours.  That machine can’t be operated by less than three people.

Now is the time.  Go challenge every “It Can’t Be Done” and every unwritten rule that operates in your organization without your permission.  Use the economy as an excuse to improve productivity.