This month I will be posting a series of business blogs written by Victor J. Temple, business manager at Friendship Garden Nursery School, Inc.

By Victor J. Temple

Inaction is a Decision that will Create a Result:

In today’s political turmoil and possible economy downturn it is easy to find yourself re-arranging the deck chairs on your Titanic.  Perhaps your wait list is off, cash is low, and parents aren’t calling! Many of us turn to what we did yesterday or worst yet, clean our desk, file and re-organize last years invoices, candidly taking no action.

Over the course of history, the dot com bubble, the housing crisis, Covid and more brought similar economic and political turmoil.  We were mentored back then by a very successful entrepreneur that founded Whistler Radar, with help, we created a simple acronym for our action plan, OAF or rather OAPH, Operational Action Plan Highlights. 

Create this plan with your team, all of them, get them together and ask a very simple question, what are we going to do differently tomorrow than what we did today?  In each functional area of your business, ask this question, challenge yourself to craft unique and ridiculous objectives, don’t debate them, there is no wrong, just opportunities for change.  Prioritize these objectives and take action, report on them weekly and continue to push change, remember no action is a decision and will create a result, one that might not be pleasant. 

The companies that weathered the storm of the great depression emerged to be the leaders of today.  Create the possibility of success and live into that possibility by doing something differently everyday, when the economy shifts you will be poised for grandeur.