May 23, 2011

Is business Bad for Politics or the Otherway Round?

Attitudes

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I posted four years ago that typical pro-business political positions are often actually bad for business because they are short sighted. In my experience working with business owners, lack of strategic planning is something they are almost always “too busy” to do, so it doesn’t surprise me that this problem expends to politics.

Seth Godin writes a post with a similar conclusion, though Seth adds some more profound insights – as he usually does.

One interesting line from Seth is “At some point, a healthy and fairly paid community is essential if you want to sell them something.”

Think about it. How well would your company survive without a market that had the money to buy your products, the time to shop for and enjoy them, and the leisure to pay attention?

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John Seiffer

I've been an entrepreneur since we were called Business Owners. I opened my first company in 1979 - the only one that ever lost money. In 1994 I started coaching other business owners dealing with the struggles of growth. In 1998 I became the third President of the International Coach Federation. (That's a story for another day.) Coaching just the owners wasn't enough for some. So I began to do organizational coaching as well. Now I don't have time to work with as many companies as I'd like, so I've packaged my techniques into this Virtual CEO Boot Camp.

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