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The Benefits of Adversity

Doug Dwyer (www.dwyergroup.com) brings us a great story about how adversity can go a long ways towards helping build a solid business or career.

There was a study once that showed strong leaders are built by either very good experiences or very bad experiences - the middle ground does not build strong leaders and only strong leaders can build strong companies.

Building a business is about building yourself and your team. Make sure you build systems in place where no one in the company is isolated from the challenges of the market place. Let the market place provide the highs and lows that build leaders. Don't isolate your team from the challenges of marketing, competition, cash flow or profitability. Let them learn from the experiences. You will lose people - you want to lose those people. The people who remain are the ones who will build your company.

Posted by David on February 15, 2007 08:46 AM|Permalink

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