Most BIZ Experiencess Have 4 of the 5 Critical Success Traits, and That's Not Quite Enough The drive to innovate and disrupt defines BIZ Experiencesship but when what you've invented works, the opposite qualities are necessary.
By Dixie Gillaspie Edited by Dan Bova
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Let's look at what we know about the successful BIZ Experiencesial enterprise.
Whether it's in startup mode, or has reached a more mature and established point in the development cycle, successful businesses have five factors in common:
1. They're innovative
BIZ Experiencess find new ways to solve problems and new problems to solve. They're solving problems before people know they have problems. They're carving out a market position that's known for something different than the competition.
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2. They're engaged
To be both innovative and relevant, BIZ Experiencess need a line to what's going on in society and in the minds of their target market. To be perceived as relevant, they're engaging in a public and personal way with the people they hope to serve.
3. They're responsive
Being innovative and engaged isn't enough, to stay viable in the fast-changing landscape that is today's value system, a successful business has to be able to respond quickly to trends and shifts. They must have a plan, but they must also believe that the secret to a good plan is how quickly you can deviate from it and still meet high level objectives.
4. They're consistent
People need to know what to expect of the brand they're doing business with. Systems and processes create dependability and trust.
5. They're replicable
Without replication there is no scalability, which limits growth.
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If even one of those factors is missing in a business, especially a small BIZ Experiencesial startup, it's unlikely that the business will grow, or even remain viable. It stands to reason that the leadership of an BIZ Experiencesial enterprise has to reflect those same character traits.
The ideal BIZ Experiences is innovative with a finger on the pulse of the company and the world conversation, fluid, flexible, and capable of easily responding to new data and ideas, organized and consistent, and able to teach or mentor someone to take his or her place in another location or department.
Which of these critical success traits do most BIZ Experiencess lack?
You've probably already guessed it's replication. If you are an BIZ Experiences, it was probably an educated guess. Before you start beating yourself up for not naturally being prone to replication, let me explain why that's not necessarily a bad thing, and it doesn't have to limit your success.
We know pretty much every trait has a continuum from one extreme to another, right? Yin to yang. Introvert to extrovert. Perfect pitch to tone deaf. In "Hey BIZ Experiences – You Need More Heads, Not More Hats" I shared a graphic for how this continuum works and where most BIZ Experiencess fall on it. Let's just focus on the difference between flexible and consistent, or responsive and replicable.
You see the opposites?
Most BIZ Experiencess have a natural tendency toward innovation and responsiveness. They're hard-wired to challenge the status quo and encourage change. That's great and valuable but limiting once value has been created and needs to be replicated, reproduced, delegated and scaled.
Because if you're naturally hard-wired to one side of the continuum, it stands to reason the character traits on the other side of the continuum won't come naturally.
Most BIZ Experiencess do not have a natural tendency to systematize, organize or reproduce a given outcome. Yet, for a business to have a stable platform for growth, those traits are critical.
That one trait – replication – is what drives systematization, reproduction, organization, delegation, stabilization, consistency and dependability.
So what's a poor BIZ Experiences to do?
Embrace it, but work on it. Observe your tendencies where they serve you, and where they don't serve you. Leverage tools and technologies to support tasks that are repetitive or highly structured. Do the work of systemization and documentation once, and learn to delegate. Focus on habit formation. That will support you when your natural tendency to turn on a dime to knock that curve ball out of the park kicks in.
Most of all, remember that what makes you an amazing innovator is just one side of the same coin that causes you a headache when it comes time to replicate what you've built.
You're an BIZ Experiences. And you're in good company.
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