Small business: 3 waves 🌊🌊🌊 coming

This will be challenging.

This will require us to work together.

This will force us to adapt.

This is our #newnormal

This will make us better together.

Towards a #newfuture and #newbalance.

This is a 3-wave storm 🌊 🌊🌊 🌪 we have to weather:

First wave 🌊: back to basics – survival of the fittest

• Rethink how we work. Focus on our added value. Constraints force us to innovate.
• Value people, teams and loyalty. Never take this for granted. It is the most valuable part of any business.
• Cash is the oxygen of a business. This wave will last longer than you think or anyone says. Prepare. We all need air to breathe.

Second wave 🌊: who is left standing – time to transform.

• few businesses will come out of this stronger – learn from them.
• most businesses will have suffered but on their feet ready for a comeback – partner with them.
• some business will be wiped out – be there for the people behind these businesses.

Third wave 🌊: a new world – bounce forward

• A crisis has winners and losers. For your business this is not about fair. This is about facts. Focus on the winners.
• Recuperation is like going to the gym. It is hard. There is sweat, effort, often even pain. But it makes you stronger. We will need grit. Stamina. Dedication.
• The world is different now. It is the one most adaptable to change, that lives within the means available and works co-operatively against common threats that comes out victorious.

So let us lean into the situation. Own it.
Analyse, come together and then act.

This can be an opportunity if we decide it to be.

Listen. Learn. Work. Together.

We will come out of this in few months. Better. Wiser.

#strongertogether #thisisastoryaboutpeople

The above is simply a summary of what I have collected over the last week or so (since Italy 🇮🇹 and Spain 🇪🇸 went in lockdown) – and I will keep adapting as hear more from you all. It is simplified and focussed on “what we can do”. Together.

Share your feedback, suggestions, ideas. We can all learn from each other.

If we come together this situation is an opportunity in disguise. 💪🏻