Artikels: Gazette Archives | Page 7 of 7 | Jedidiah
Om wins te maak
Deur David Malherbe – Gepubliseer in Drakenstein Gazette – Vrydag 21 Junie 2013
Mense het dikwels die persepsie dat ‘n entrepreneur iemand is wat wat baie geld maak. Maar entrepreneurs is in die eerste plek mense wat die durf het om vir hulleself werk te skep eerder as om na ‘n werk te gaan soek. Party verdien goeie geld, party oorleef net, maar ongelukkig is daar ook die wat nie die mas opkom nie.
Soos met elke ander werk is kennis en vaardigheid van dit wat jy doen belangrik. Wanneer jy ‘n entrepreneur is, is tegniese kennis alleen nie goed genoeg nie. Kennis en vaardighede tov die bedryf van ‘n besigheid is net so van kardinale belang. Dit is hoekom ons graag die wat die durf het om ‘n eie werk te skep, wil bemoedig en raad gee vir ‘n beter kans op sukses.
Ons hoor gereeld van iemand wat ‘n werk verloor het en dan wonder mense waar hulle nou weer ‘n werk gaan kry. Maar enkeles dink anders en sê “Wat kan ek nou vir myself doen?” Baie besighede is al so gebore en later sê die eienaar dat om sy/haar werk te verloor, die beste ding was wat kon gebeur het.
Die dag wanneer jy jou werk verloor, stort jou hele wêreld in duie. Dit veroorsaak gewoonlik ‘n “tipping point” in jou lewe wat jou anders as ooit vantevore na die lewe laat kyk. As jy reg dink en doen, kan daar egter vir jou ‘n blink toekoms wag. Moet beslis nie negatiewe uitsprake maak soos Job in Job 7:7 nie. Hy het gesê “… ek sal nooit weer voorspoed beleef nie” en ons weet hy was aan die einde van sy lewe twee keer so ryk as voorheen.
“Anders dink,” gaan egter oor meer as net “Wat kan ek vir myself doen?” Wanneer ‘n mens ‘n eie besigheid het, raak jou siening van werk en geld anders as wanneer jy ‘n salaris verdien. ‘n Vakansiedag is nou ‘n dag minder in die maand om geld te verdien terwyl salarisse aan die einde van die maand betaal moet word. Maar om ‘n wins te maak bied ‘n motivering wat net die wat dit ken, kan waardeer.
David Malherbe en Dewald Scholtz gesels Maandagaand van 19:00 tot 20:00 op Radio KC 107.7FM tydens die program Jy die Entrepreneur verder oor hierdie onderwerp.
White Water Business Environment
By David Malherbe – Published in Drakenstein Gazette – Friday 14 June 2013
Annually we see news coverage on TV of the boat race between the universities of Oxford and Cambridge on the river Thames in Britain. Next year’s race will be the 160th. This is a race for long boats with eight paddlers and a navigator each, racing on flat water over a distance of 6,8km.
On the other hand we have white water paddling and white water rafting where you almost risk your life going down the rapids in the river.
Our present day business environment is often described as permanent white water. Therefore to manage your business in an Oxford to Cambridge way, while you are competing on white water will not make your business succeed.
We live in times of incredible change where most of our securities of the past no longer exist. Years ago the value of the rand and interest rates were secure. Nowadays the value of the Rand changes daily and the fuel price monthly, while the Reserve Bank Committee regularly decides on the interest rate. Amidst all of this and much other insecurity we need to carry on and even grow our businesses.
But there are always things that never change. Whether you are doing the Oxford to Cambridge or white water paddling, you still need to paddle, you are still in a boat on water, you still need to practice and be very fit, etc.
Business owners nowadays face challenges our forefathers never even dreamt of, yet we still need to manage our businesses and staff well. We still need to do marketing and have good administration and financial systems in place.
These basic aspects of business should be like a changeless core in your business. If these are well established, it is easier to adapt a business to the present whitewater environment.
The next couple of weeks we will take a look at some of these basic elements that need to be in place in every business. We cannot calm the waters, but we can modify the boat and better our skills and fitness and thus keep our businesses afloat and win the race.