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That's the number one question I'm asked by clients, future clients, and interviewers. So how long can we expect virtual assistants to stick? My answer is always the same: "it depends". It depends on many things. But first we need to realign our thinking a little bit and better understand today's workforce.
As a small or home-based business owner, are you basing your perception of how long a worker stays in a position on your own work history? Yeah, me too. Big mistake.
That joins the other eight original definitions that I already had developed and utilize as basis for the Strategic Planning and Visioning work with clients and at speaking engagements...
1. Futurism: what you will do and become...rather than what it is to be. What you can and are committed to accomplishing...rather than what mysteriously lies ahead.
2. Futurism: leaders and organizations taking personal responsibility and accountability for what happens. Abdicating to someone or
Wonder why it`s lonely at the top? It`s because few people get there...really achieve the pinacle of a career.
Reaching the top means being the best that you can be. It`s not indicative of occupying a certain chair in the board room.
Being "at the top" is a journey that was enjoyed. It entails "staying power." It`s analogous to working hard, getting stronger with age and prospering due to a continuum of accomplishments.
Many folks (especially young ones who don`t know any
Environmental incidents, plant explosions, health care crises, hostile corporate takeovers, governmental shakeups, and financial failings are crises that upset the routine of business life.
These occurences or their variations are feared by the business community. After all, these things happen to someone else.
Eventually, it hits close to home. Some jolting incident puts the chosen company into a reaction mode. The consequences of miscommunication in a crisis can be devastating
People and organizations are won't to throw money at things that pop up at the moment or that look good at external publics. It is easier to tinker with machines than to admit that the organization has deep management and philosophical issues. After all, 92% of all organizational problems stem from poor management decisions.
Our society is infested with the band-aid surgery way of treating things as they come up. This approach costs six times that of doing things correctly on the front
