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happen and panicking about it will do nothing to improve the situation. By all means, have a ‘moment’ and the occasional freak out behind closed doors, but your business needs you to have a clear head and for you to take positive, wellconsidered action. Also, this is a time when staff need a strong leader. If the boss is panicking, the staff will panic, and it won’t take long for the situation to spiral out of control. A client of mine had to reduce his company’s debt by $10 million dollars per month for eight months in a row. He had to lay off
many members of staff, and his company was in the media almost daily with talk of their impending doom. When I asked him how he coped through this incredibly stressful time, he smiled and said, “I just lined up the challenges and dealt with them one at a time.” This is a simple philosophy but a very good one. Trying to work through a problem as a whole can be absolutely overwhelming. You can’t solve every issue at once. So, break the problem down into manageable chunks, which can be dealt with one at a time.
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