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Go digital
The digital age is an age that gives you the audacity to embrace changes. It is a shift from the old world to the new world, where you use digital technologies and digital tools to address everyday problems.
Digital resources have opened new ways to enterprise effectiveness and offer better means to serve and delight the customers and make more money at the same time.
You must ensure that you are digitally literate with the right application of digital tools that will enhance every aspect of your business, particularly your business systems, and operations.
You should also learn how to digitally transform your various enterprises beginning this year with the gradual adoption of digital methodologies to achieve strategic business goals.
With digital transformation and agile business models, your enterprise will have new and unlimited business opportunities. Again, have a digital mindset. It will make you understand the world better, do business better, and relentlessly move you forward.
Pay attention to details
You must pay attention to details because everything matters. Paying attention to detail is the ability to achieve thoroughness and accuracy when accomplishing any task. This is important because it will help you to prevent mistakes and make getting results easier.
It’s important to note that being attentive to detail can be nearly impossible when you work and position for distraction by people around you. You must consciously keep your eyes on what is important, and avoid distractions. Anything that does not add to your vision and mission is a distraction. Avoid it and stay focused.
You can improve your overall attention to detail, and hence improve your work by planning in advance i.e. creating a work plan, making lists, and maintaining a schedule. Avoid overloading yourself, and ask for help when you should.
Make big moves
Take bold steps. There is no honour in mediocrity. You must be bold enough to dare, in as much as that action would advance our business course. Always remember that life favours the bold. The world is fast advancing and has no room for average players. Get ready to go the extra mile; it is never crowded.
Is your business what you really want it to be? Is it worth giving your all? If it is truly what you love and can die for, why act as if it doesn’t matter? Why act as if you love it less? As someone once said, ‘There is nothing more important in life than going after what you love.’ Make a big move for and towards the business that you love. You will never ever regret it.
There’s so much market opportunity out there waiting for whosoever will. You won’t know unless you make a move. You won’t have them unless you dare. British Special Air Service motto captures it well: ‘He who dares wins!’
Build strategic collaborations
We are not made to work alone but to collaborate. There will always be a need for you to work with others in order to do something, and that thing is always greater than what you can achieve without them. It’s a known fact that alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
Strategic collaborations will allow you to pool more resources, generate and share fresh & innovative ideas, and intensify business expertise to achieve more than you could independently. Collaboration is a cool way for you to develop innovative solutions that can provide a competitive edge.
With it, you will increase your skills and capacities, increase your performance, multiply your result, and fast-track your business growth.
In the words of Charles Darwin, ‘It is the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) that those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.’ Nothing more could be added. This is your year. This is your moment. Seize it to the fullest, and make it count!
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Tony Ajah is a Business Growth Strategist, and the author of BUSINESS SENSE, and ON BECOMING AN ENTREPRENEUR. He maintains a personal blog, where he shares proven business ideas and principles for SMEs.
