Welcome to 2009!
“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.” Edith Lovejoy Pierce
2009 marks the beginning of a new era for business as we know it. The days of incremental improvement, hit or miss execution and a reluctance to maintain relevancy have come to a harsh and painful halt. We are entering a period of profound business transformation. In this period of transformation, there are many new growth opportunities for those individuals and companies willing and open to innovation and expansion.
In this time of transformation there are many factors that will influence our lives and businesses over next several years, including:
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Increased unemployment, particularly among white collar baby boomers.
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Emergence of Generation Y en mass in the workforce and marketplace.
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Continued expansion of women-owned and minority-owned businesses.
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Continued growth in franchise development, even with capital limitations.
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Implications from the Macro – Economic Environment.
- More wide spread acceptance of the integration of technology in business.
Independently, any one of these factors can be perceived positively or negatively. The real opportunity is how you can leverage these factors in your business in new and innovative ways. The collective convergence of these factors also has the potential to create new paradigms for business. In this time of transformation, there are exciting opportunities to create new ways of doing business to address the needs of the marketplace. There are also excellent opportunities to leverage new opportunities in your career path too!
The New Year brings each of us a tremendous opportunity to transform our business and our lives. We can choose to write new words in the “book of the New Year” and engage in the new way of doing business.
As the New Year begins, take advantage of the opportunity to transform your business and your career to paraphrase Edith Pierce Lovejoy, “open your Book of Opportunity to the blank pages in the first chapter and fill it with your new words of success and transformation.”
