Try ‘Something New’
by WooJin Kim · Charm Regent Ltd. · July 1, 2008 - page(s): 63-65
I was at a wedding recently. A very nice and fun affair. The bride looked terrific and the grin of happiness on the groom was quite something. I mean, you really couldn’t wipe the smile from the guy’s face. Really cool.
Hanging out with the bride and groom on the balmy night before the wedding day, someone asked her, “Do you have all your stuff? Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue.”
It got me thinking, and in the conversations with some of the other guests (including one or two from our industry), we talked a bit about “trying something new.”
Clearly by the looks of the stock market and the economy in general, times are not booming right now. A few companies are doing well, a few not so much and many are up just slightly from last year. This is primarily in the U.S.; in markets overseas (particularly emerging markets) there is still good growth.
The really odd and funny thing about this is that when I asked these business people what they are doing to grow their business in a time of economic softness, I heard things like “We’re working really hard” or “We’re focusing on our main business” or “We come to work every day and work it as hard as we can.”
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