Tim Moore
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No more excuses!
Right now, nothing gets my goat more than hearing or reading the words 'in the current economic climate' or similar.
Every sales email I receive informs me how in the 'current economic climate' I can't afford to be without a particular product or service. (And yes I can actually). Newspapers are full of gloomy 'current economic climate' stories. You can't switch a TV on without hearing of layoffs as a result of the 'current economic climate'. If you Google 'current economic climate' you get around 2,670,000 matches.
Client and colleagues are at it too – my mailbox has 62 matches – and that's without all the emails I deleted.
It's almost like the world is in depressing unison at last. Nations stand united, complicit in the biggest excuse in the history of the world "yes, we are performing badly... but in the current economic climate..."
Wherever you come across 'current economic climate' you might as well read 'it's not my fault'. But to every short selling hedge fund manager, banker that has enjoyed the bonus culture, and consumer burdened with debt after buying all that stuff, yes it is your fault. Face up to it.
So I say bollocks to the 'current economic climate'. I refuse to indulge it any more. Let's be innovative, service our clients better than ever, be more competitive and raise our game. And if it does all go pear-shaped lets be honest and accept that we made mistakes or just weren't good enough and not blame the 'current economic climate'.
Posted by Tim on 10 Feb 09, at 9:54 pm
5 comments on this post
Spot on, let's fly the flag for how great everything still is, eventually it'll sink in, else the whole country will keep sinking into a quagmire of negativity!
Tim, I agree with you. I think there's a lot of people ready to give up on the blamestorming and just get on with it, Fox news aside.
I think if you asked a sheep to sign a mortgage even he'd read the fine print and ask a few questions. But then he'd probably think twice about a career in financial jiggery pokery too, preferring a career focused on market participation instead of manipulation.
I'm hoping we all come out of this with more regulatory, market and personal responsibility. In the meantime I agree that we need to look on the bright side.
Mate, I couldn't agree with you more. It is far easier for us all to jointly talk ourselves down than it is to talk ourselves up. So lets leave everyone else to it and we at Playgroup can just talk our own company up.
Approaching this year with a positive attitude is half the battle. Getting clients to part with any of their budget is the other half!
I couldn't agree more Tim
Best wishes from Brazil;)
I agree whole heartedly, there is still a lot of business to be done and this is the exact time to (cliche time) "work smarter". Too many cutbacks will lead to companies being "too slim" to win new work.
ps: Good use of 'Bollocks'