Today I’m starting a series of articles about business principles that small companies can learn from big companies.
Some people are content keeping their small businesses small. They want their company to feel ma and pa. But I know that many of you are far more ambitious in your hopes and desires for success.
So we’ll be looking at what big businesses are doing to maximize their profits. We’ll look at what they’re doing to move toward a big and unknown future. We’ll look at what they’re doing to stay ahead of the competition.
Improving your business might be as simple as switching to fax to email, and it may be as big as completely redefining your business model, business plan, and marketing strategies. Some of these big companies have truly brilliant leadership and it’s clearly in your best interest to hear what they have to say.
Take Jack Welch’s classic book, Jack: Straight From the Gut. This man outlines his performance as CEO of GE during a time of enormous growth. He attacked his job like an entrepreneur building his business up from nothing, even though GE was hardly nothing when he took over.
There’s much to be learned by looking to the big dogs. I hope that this examination will help.
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