Small Business Should Plan for Change
Yesterday Toni and I downed tools and headed for Brisbane for a doctor’s appointment. The appointment had been made well in advance and there had been all sorts of tests done to prepare for the consultation. Everyone considered that this consultation was really important so we were focused on getting there.
About 100 kms into our trip my mobile phone rang and it was the doctor’s receptionist. The doctor was ill and the appointment was cancelled.
Not only were our plans for yesterday thrown into disarray but plans for the weeks ahead are not getting rather uncertain.
So it was timely that Toni should point me to Seth Godin’s post on flexibility this morning.
He has a very valid point to make. I do note that someone who links to that post seems to think that Seth has got it totally wrong but from my experience it’s the person doing the linking who has it wrong and I just hope he has the flexibility to cope with any changes that might be necessary when life throws up something that he wasn’t expecting.
