April is National Stress Awareness Month and it happens that today’s conversation falls on International Moment of Laughter Day, which couldn’t be more perfect given the times.
I have two takeaways for you today: 1) you are not your business and 2) a stoic mindset can make the difference in how you emerge from this crisis.
A business operating system, a business’s unique way of operating, going to market, creating products, and serving its customers, can be critical to the success of companies that survive and thrive in a crisis. It might surprise you just how effective business operating systems can be at making or saving you money.
My Story: In late summer of 2016 I was deep into the biggest crisis of my life. I had spent much of the previous decade running other peoples business and it had cost me a lot–a marriage, for example–but I was not going to let it cost me my relationship with my kids, and I was not going to go through life feeling like a drone that someone else was controlling.
