Keeping a Business Healthy

25 Jul 2023 · 0 min

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A brief conversational excerpt (two speakers) framing running a business as analogous to maintaining personal health. The speakers list multiple ongoing responsibilities required for a healthy business—sales, marketing, leadership, people, and service—and emphasize the difficulty of doing all of them well consistently.

Running a business is much more like trying to be healthy. Right. So, for example, what are all the things you have to do to be healthy?
Well, you got to eat right. You got to exercise. You got to nurse your personal relationships. You got to get enough sleep. There's probably 15 other things. It's very hard.
To do all those things well all the time. What does it take to build a great business? You need great sales.
You need great marketing. You need great leadership. You need great people. You actually got to do the service.
It's very hard to do all those things well all the time, but it's a striving.