{"id":9262,"date":"2015-05-14T09:13:57","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T14:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/?p=9262"},"modified":"2015-05-14T09:13:57","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T14:13:57","slug":"disrupt-your-small-business-for-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/2015\/05\/disrupt-your-small-business-for-success.html","title":{"rendered":"Disrupt Your Small Business for Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9264\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/change-Dennis-Skley-Flickr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9264\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9264\" src=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/change-Dennis-Skley-Flickr-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Quote\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/change-Dennis-Skley-Flickr-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/change-Dennis-Skley-Flickr-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/change-Dennis-Skley-Flickr.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9264\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo (CC) by Dennis Skley, on flickr<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The world we live in is not a static place.<\/p>\n<p>This is true in every aspect of life, including small business. <strong>For small-business owners, things are changing, and those changes are happening at an ever-increasing pace<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Doing business tomorrow will be different than doing business today. And doing business next week might be something we can\u2019t even imagine today.<\/p>\n<p>Disruption is another term people use when discussing the changing environment in which we live. <strong>When disruption occurs, you are forced to respond in some manner<\/strong>. No longer can you continue to do business as you have in the past.<\/p>\n<p>While small-business owners may not know exactly what the next disruption coming down the road will be, they know it\u2019s coming. Knowing it\u2019s coming means the owner has a chance to determine his or her response.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Owners can respond in one of two ways<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One choice is to <strong>do nothing<\/strong>. Let the disruption come and then respond.<\/li>\n<li>The other choice is to <strong>be proactive<\/strong> and to disrupt the business themselves. The event no longer happens at a random, and perhaps a bad, time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Taking a proactive stance gives the owner several advantages<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>For one thing, bad timing is taken out of the equation somewhat. The disruption<strong> occurs on the owner\u2019s time schedule<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Second, being proactive means that the owner is not forced into playing catch-up but instead has done at least a little preparation in terms of possible responses. Even if the decision is to do nothing, <strong>the owner has made that decision and has not let circumstances make the decision for him or her<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>By disrupting your own business, you <strong>also can get a jump on your competitors<\/strong>. Not only might you get a step ahead, but you put them into the position of being behind and responding to the external environment.<\/p>\n<p>Being proactive changes the mindset you are working under. No longer are changes in the environment a threat. Instead, they become opportunities. You take control.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The bottom line: Disrupt your business before others decide to disrupt it for you.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world we live in is not a static place. This is true in every aspect of life, including small business. For small-business owners, things are changing, and those changes are happening at an ever-increasing pace. Doing business tomorrow will be different than doing business today. And doing business next week might be something we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,17,21],"tags":[110,103,75,124,155,125,156],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9262"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9262"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9265,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9262\/revisions\/9265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}