Leadership for the Small Business
It was once jokingly said by Troubleshooter Sir John Harvey Jones, ''If you want to ruin your business, employ people!''
Small Businesses are the brainchild of an individual, or small band of like minded people, and at some point, a decision has to be reached as to whether that busines is going to remain forever a ''one man band'', remain that small band of like minded people, or if it is going to grow into something else. The moment the decision to expand is made, then other people are recruited to the business, and if all goes well (usually by a greater degree of what is called luck than judgement), the business will continue to grow. It may even get to the point where the founder(s) find themselves doing the things they did not intend to do, that they have been taken away form the ''sharp end'' of their business and no longer directly provide the service or product to the End Users themselves, but rather are involved in managing the small departments and entities that perform all the functions they use to carry out on their own! Now they are ''managers'' not ''implementors'', and it is this transition that many small businesses fail to achieve.
It is fallacious to say that a business cannot stay the same, that to survive one has to grow: so many small businesses achieve this reportedly impossible feat. What is required is the freely taken choice, on the part of the business starter(s) to recognise that growth will require changing roles and responsibilities, and that not everyone will welcome or want this process to occur. The Ipsemet Programme for Small Businesses is designed to show you exactly how this transition can be managed effectively, and to allow the founders of a business to determine, without doubt, if that is the direction they wish to go. This provies the possibility of powerfully choosing either growth, or staying small-and no matter what the path chosen, there will be roles and functions to be fulfilled, and what ultimately binds these roles and functions together is a unity or purpose.
Where many small businesses fail to achieve their potential growth, it is down to a failure to communicate this purpose, and the real raison d'etre of the company to the new employees, because it is assumed to be both apparent and obvious, when in truth it is neither! The Ipsemet Programme shows not only why this is the case, but gives the tools to overcome this barier to growth, and to generate the energy and motivation in every person in the business to achieve the goals of the business, and thereby, the foals of the individuals that go to make that business what it is.
