B2B

Its been a long long time since I had a chance to sit down and write on my perspectives. This time around I will write about B2B.

Hasn't there been written enough about B2B? Business-To-Business, yes sure. There is tons and tons of material written on the birth of this concept etc. etc. You can read about all that till you are blue in your face.

What about the other B2B? Do you ever take time to review the other B2B? Refresh your mind? Back-To-Basics. This is the other B2B that I think needs attention.

In every thing that we do at work, we are constantly learning new things, new technologies, new processes, new methods and so on. How many times as executives do we take the time and go back to basics? How many times do we send our teams to go back and learn the basics? Never ever.

Simple elements like treating people with respect. Managing resources to achieve long term efficiencies. Thinking global, acting local.

We tend to get caught in the mundane pieces of executing to plan that we lose focus of the basic fundamentals that have made us what we are. As executives, we tend to push to get our objectives met, goals exceeded and so on. How many times do we sit down, talk to the people without asking for a commitment, without asking for a timeline? Just respecting the individual for what they are and not the hard-work that they have put in.

As we get ready to close this year and begin to put our goals and objectives for the next year, I am going to have one of my goals as respect the individual. Are you? Think about it !