Lessons from the road!
Many of us venture into business with high hopes of making it! Of interest are the people who run their businesses through other people! Naturally as the business outgrows you, you have to bring in someone else to oversee things for you! However what is the quality of these poeple that we get to manage our businesses for us?
Do thay have the capacity to do what is in our bests interests and tomake "the right decisions"?
Picture this; you are in a public transportation vehicle during rush hour, our roads being what they are the jam is clogged upto your neck, ignoringthe traffic lights installed
the all knowing traffic cops are controlling traffic and let cars to go as they deem fit. After a good ten minutes
waiting its your sides turn, as you sigh in relief because you have an urgent appointment the drive pulls into
the stge to beckon passenger to board before he can proceed...for a "mere" Kes 20 each with three seats into town...
and "wastes" a good two minutes!! Sure enough as the the little voice in your head said your side is halted
as you pull out of the stage...having netted zero customers!!!
Now you dont have the right to be angry at this guy... or even furiuos, but you are and you tell him as much, you are thinking your willbe late for the appointment, but wait you wonder is the amount of fuel you burn
waiting inturn worth the Kes 60 he would have picked, what about the lsot opportunity of the passengers waiting in queue at the stage to be taken home, what about the lost man hours!
Is this guy making the right decision for his principle your ponder? How many times does this happen, day in day out!! Does the principle making aprofit at this rate? Does have any training on running a business? Hey there he is a transport business manager!! The train of questions really is endless!
In the end you realize that success in business is hinged on the kind of people managing it! If they lack in capability then the business suffers, but if they have the capacity the resulst will be
stellar! To rephrase one of the great business minds of our time;
"If a good business is run by management with a poor reputation, in the end it is the managements' reputation that will stand"

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