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Not being the expert
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Not behaving like the expert can take many forms. One of them: trying to avoid pushback, arguments, or resistance in your relationship with clients. It can hurt you more than help. You can be in the order-taking business, if you prefer. And that's fine. The impact that comes from it, though, will be smaller. You can be in the service business, where your impact will be higher. Or you can be in the transformation business, and help them achieve the potential your customers have. How you want to be the expert —or not— is up to you. |
Rod Aparicio
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"Every customer is important." It's not. If you had only 4 hours to have face-to-face conversations that define the future of your business, who would be these customers you'd have those 1:1? Physically, you can't do it with all of them. Who would you choose? In your gut, you already know. Just as you know the ones who are not. Focus. It's all about choosing. Choose wisely.
After a 2-month break, we're back. This time off was important to re-evaluate some thinking, pressure test some more, and focus more. Anyways, now that we're back, let's get down to business. :) As such, you might focus on certain things, and maybe leave others. That's ok. You can take a pause (short or long). Regroup. Rethink. And then you can retake things. At your own pace. Just remember to get back to it.
One way that makes the process of articulating what's different about you simpler (not less painful, though) is through your insight. April Dunford defines insight as "the thing we understand about the market that the others do not." It starts with what you see in the market that doesn't make sense, that makes you cringe, that pisses you off. And the way you approach it that's in another direction from what everybody else does. It's your understanding. That's what makes you different.