Chemists
Every business leader is a chemist, mixing the available chemicals together to achieve the optimum business concoction.
Some business leaders create incredibly rank combinations, where the chemicals don’t mix…in fact, they stink.
Others create an acceptable mix that smells ok but looks horrible, and thankfully, the business finds ways to move forward and grow even with the ugliness.
And finally, those rare few create the perfect concoction that looks good, smells good, and delivers beyond all expectations.
There are very few perfect concoctions.
Even fewer perfect chemists.
But there are an awful lot of chemicals that when mixed together make acceptable solutions.
Unfortunately, too many chemists live with the ugliest of mixtures.
There’s no need to do that.
But we do it anyway.
And then live with the results.
Business leaders today need to be the best chemists in the world.
Otherwise, everything stinks.