Who Said Small Business Was Fun and FreedomLearn from Nature - How to Win Fun and Freedom
You're working all hours and have no friends or hobbies. Your family think you're a distant relative.
You complain about not being able to find time to make improvements to your business.
You dash from one crisis to
next. Embarrassing and costly mistakes are being made by your staff. Cost and time lost to rework creeps higher.
You even begin to revel as an expert fire fighter or trouble-shooter.
Reacting to demands all
time, who said running your own business was fun and would give you freedom to do your own thing?
How did you find yourself in this state? Simply, you and your staff are human. Humans make mistakes and forget things, especially when they are in a hurry or lack experience.
So, What Can we Learn from Nature
Nature has produced complex, powerful, elegant, awe-inspiring, incredibly capable organisms and species that have evolved, thrived, and survived for millions of years.
Species compete for food and shelter. They also face
threat of disease. Species survive using their traits and capabilities...their genes.
Business is like a species you need to compete for business to survive, and to defend yourself against business diseases such as fire fighting or complacency.
Your business, like a species, exhibits distinct traits and capabilities derived from your skills, experience and upbringing -your business genes.
Here's How Nature Creates Incredibly Capable Species:
1)Living things evolve in small low-risk incremental steps not in giant high-risk steps. They adapt to their environment all
time to improve their chances of survival.
What's natures strategy?
The environment eliminates species that cant cope and only keeps those who can meet
Survival of
Fittest rules. Nature doesn't have a vision statement, foresight, mission statement, or manifesto.
It simple uses this process of natural selection. Nature just takes one small step at a time to improve its current survival chances building on
best or fittest and removing
least fit.
2)Nature builds everything in small independent modules or building blocks genes. A gene is a length of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) a long list of instructions or template on how to put
organism together and make it work well. Genes determine
features, traits and capabilities of
organism.
3)The DNA genetic structure gives outstanding stability. The gene building blocks give
stability. The probability of any particular part of a gene being miscopied on any one copying or reproduction occasion is approximately one in a 1,000,000,000 (1 billion). It happens but it takes a considerably length of time for an error or mutation to occur. The lifetime of DNA messages of genetic code measures in millions of years.
Genetic stability preserves
useful and best characteristics that meet
environments needs. It ensures that
favourable characteristics travel from one generation to
next.
4)The DNA replication or replacement process has brilliant proof-reading and repairing capabilities to prevent errors occurring. About 5000 pieces of DNA chain degenerate per day in every human cell, and are immediately replaced by
repair control mechanisms.