We’re familiar with many of the pain points of the business leader and entrepreneur – we are living it ourselves. The worry about failure seems usurped only by two things – the fear of the unknown, and anxiety regarding negative surprises.
Nobody has a crystal ball (the future is unknown) and you cannot completely eliminate surprises. However, you can minimize them…which alleviates some of the fear of the future and ought to lower the risk of failure.
So how do you find peace in the face of uncertainty? For us, it’s all about VISIBILITY.
We want to understand what’s happening by harnessing data in the form of reporting and business intelligence (BI), so that our conversations are driven by insight and not conjecture.
We want the ability to build credible projections and conduct scenario analysis, so that our decisions are informed by potential outcomes and made with confidence. Further, for those inevitable surprises that come, we reduce the risk that they divert us from our desired path.
Visibility brings peace, and peace is hard to put a price on. You can’t open the Wall Street Journal to find today’s price for peace of mind.
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