Individual Rights Exceed Our Business Skookum

"Nope.  I Ain't Gunna' Do That!"

I had to look up the spelling of this word, 'skookum'.  Although I have used it in many sentences when I speak I do not ever remember writing it down.  I looked it up.  Technology is great stuff.  I typed the word and they corrected the spelling for me.  They even defined the word more clearly to me.  Now I have it correctly spelled and its meaning very much in tack.  Is this donkey above exercising its business skookum or is it practicing to protect his personal rights?  We see the difference, don't we?

Skookum is a term that gives the impression that something is strong, dominate or very accurate.  It represents something that is 'right on' or 'smart' and 'understanding'.  It reflects a positive position.  It suggests that someone has the right kind of knowledge happening at the right time it needs to be employed.  They have skookum.  They are 'right on' the target.  Good perception on complicated matters.  Skookum does suggest a bit of stubbornness, but in the right way.

How well is your business skookum?  Is it producing a long list of profitable outcomes?  Your pocketbook will tell you the truth.  Your bank account reflects how well you are doing.  Your debt accumulation reveals the level of your business skookum.  If any of these three rates of business measurement are a bit lower than what they should be, your business skookum might be running a little bit low.  Everyone in the business world is facing tough times.  Nobody was passed over.  Therefore, do not use this as your excuse for having a poor cash position, too much debt or a terribly shaped checking account.  This bad economy hit everyone.  The ones with the best skookum have come out better than the ones with less skookum.  No doubt about it.

Skookum.  It all comes down to skookum.  What kinds of things interfere with our level of business skookum?  It comes down to our level of skookum.  How well do we understand complicated matters?  How well do we navigate the complexities of human relationships in the slippery waters of business management?  What levels do our skills reveal?  What are our weaknesses?  Where are we deficient?  When do our strengths run out of room to move?  What is our skookum level?  This is where the world of business success meets the road.  It has nothing to do with how well we repair automobiles, if we are a mechanic.  It has nothing to do with how well we bake cookies, if we are a bakery.  It has nothing to do with how well we build cabinets, if we are a carpenter.  It comes down to our skills of having enough skookum to deal with all of the complexities and challenges that a small business must learn how to manage.  It is within these crossroads that a business leader learns how to profit well.  It comes surrounded by our skookum levels.

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"Nope.  I Ain't Gunna' Do That!"

How well do you do math?  This is the area where most business owners hurt themselves.  They do not know how to do good math.  Bad math reveals low levels of skookum stuff.  Some people cannot add, subtract, multiply or divide numbers very well.  This is a really serious problem.  Get better at math.  Go teach yourself how to do it better.  Start tonight!  Kill the television and get out some flash cards.  I mean it.  Get away from the "nope, I ain't gunna' do that stuff" game.  Get good at math.

On the other side of that math knowledge area, when a business owner who knows how to multiply and divide well, they often times use their good math skills to drape over some of the finer points in human resource management.  Math is where those business leaders hide their lack of possessing skillful human factors.  Some good math thinkers use that skill to dominate how they control other people.  Bad math does not always mean we cannot do good math.  Quite the contrary.  If you do good math, do not leverage it right over the top of your lack of human skills.  Become very good at both or your business will suffer.

The business owners who fail to recognize how critical the human factor is in the world of business success is a business owner who bounces a lot of checks.  Just look into a mirror.  That is where I found my villain on that subject.  I did great math.  I walked over a ton of people to get where I wanted to go.  Guess where my checkbook ended up with that kind of approach?  Be spot on with your skookum about this subject.  It is all about relationships.  The math is how we do the numbers.  The skookum is how we do the people.

Anyone who runs a business and fails to recognize how critical the human factor is to the success components of any business model is a business leader driving their business vehicle wearing blindfolds.  Sooner or later it becomes a business game of bump and crash.  Damage finds its way at every turn and junction as the business model travels to navigate what it does.  Stuff that is unwanted seems always able to make its appearance when the importance of the human factor is ignored.  The business patterns that find this kind of daily routine are the same ones that lack good skookum.  They are missing out on the finer points that determine how well their checkbooks will do.

Skookum runs the show.  Low skookum delivers messy accounting results.  High skookum activities manifest healthier financials.  It has nothing to do with how well the business leader does their math.  Although doing good math is critical, it is only a small part of why a business leader does so well.  Skookum rules the balance of where that business model will typically end up on the profit/loss side of the world of measurements.  It comes down to the measurement on our skill levels for managing higher abilities for skookum developments.  How well is our skookum development?  What complicated things have we learned how to avoid?  What complicated things have we learned how to include?  What complicated things have we learned how to discover?  What complicated things have we been doing incorrectly?  What visions do we lack?  What visions do we ignore?  How do we continue to permit our individual rights to exceed our business skookum?

You see, it becomes very personal.  Our business success surrounds the idea that we must learn how to better manage the personal rights we feel we ought to enjoy.  When our individual rights grow up to dominate how we manage our skookum factors, we will lose.  Almost every time.  Losing in business is as much about personal matters as it is about doing good business.  Our individual rights get in our way.  We feel like we need to dominate what our personal desires feel they need to protect.  Our personal beliefs cloud up the skookum lanes.  Wisdom fails to arrive when this happens.  We all know this and we all do it incorrectly.  We protect our personal rights viciously.  I am guilty.  So are you.  It is in this line of work that we fail to allow our business skookum to trump what our personal rights feel they ought to be.  We permit our individual rights to exceed our business skookum.  As a result, our business success gets placed on hold.  It suffers a bit more.  Skookum loses.  Our personal rights win.  The checkbook reveals what the score really is.

Kill the ego.  Harness the desire to protect our personal rights.  Get the mind placed into a better school for learning more about business skookum and watch how well that checkbook grows.  Personal feelings will cloud up this path.  Learn how to manage them better.  Shake off the rusty stuff that protects how we do so many things wrong.  Start learning how to polish up the business skookum of what needs to be done, as opposed to avoiding what we 'feel' we do not want to do.  Get out of the individual rights game and walk into the game of improving the world of business skookum.  It will deliver much more of what you originally thought the business should produce.  In the end, the business could care less about what your personal beliefs are.  It only cares about the skookum stuff that governs how well it produces.

Until next time...