May 18, 2006
Be the Best
Take a look at your competition, whether they’re colleagues, fellow entrepreneurs, or major companies in your field. What do they lack? Where are they falling short? How can you bridge that gap? You don’t have to be the biggest, the fastest, or the cheapest to win. You just have to provide essential services that your customers need, in the ways they need them. You have to solve problems better than your competitors and provide more value.
Your colleagues may be limiting themselves by their job descriptions. Can you seek out new opportunities for value creation and demonstration? Maybe other entrepreneurs in your area are unreliable. Can you provide solid, dependable, trustworthy services? Large companies may be so consumed with volume that they’ve lost their personal touch. What can you do to make business transactions more emotionally satisfying and valuable?
No matter your size, scope, budget, or framework, you have an opportunity to outperform the competition in some way.
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[…] Dave Lorenzo has some career advice that is pretty much unbeatable. Just Be the Best. Fortunately he offers a bit of advice on how to actually do that: Take a look at your competition, whether they’re colleagues, fellow entrepreneurs, or major companies in your field. What do they lack? Where are they falling short? How can you bridge that gap? […]
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