Aside being an entrepreneur or business manager. The idealistic part of our crude socialization of "being ahead" is based on unfriendly terminologies, starting with the most common of all, "beating the competition". While you are focused on fighting the competition, you have not been gaining grounds but losing it. Does this make you wonder where you will be in the foreseeable future since the competition is obviously growing and getting more aggressive?.

Additionally, your cost of doing business is and has been rising. Owing to the fact that more of your productive resources are expended on fighting the competition. Getting new clients and customers is costing more as the price of advertising increases in direct contrast to the ineffective result of advertising. Lifetime value gradually erodes and the commoditization of everything will put your business not only in a precarious position, but in some instances a losing one.

These are the stark realities in the ever-changing marketplace that quickly come into focus when we take a bird's-eye view of how business is going for the entrepreneur and business manager these days....

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