- Winning in business is about knowing your strengths and ensuring they complement those of your allies, clients, suppliers and partners
- Recognise the scope of what you want to do and know what to focus on
- The easier and clearer implementation is, the more likely you are to succeed
With the coalition government recently passing its first 100 days in power, what have business owners learnt about the value of collaboration? Not much, says Martin Wing.
What message did the creation of the coalition government give to business leaders of today or tomorrow? Was it that you can only win if you can beat the opposition into submission through a war of words and half-baked truths? Businesses don't succeed like that. We have to know our strengths and how to use them to complement those of our clients and our suppliers.
A client, who in this instance shall remain nameless, once said to me during a strategy review session that he thought his clients were dumb because they paid for help and support. He added that I must have thought that he was dumb and that this is why he needed my support. Quite the opposite I responded. I thought he was informed to know both his and our strengths enough to use them at the right time.
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