{"id":182,"date":"2012-05-30T16:42:59","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T16:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/?p=182"},"modified":"2012-05-30T16:42:59","modified_gmt":"2012-05-30T16:42:59","slug":"smbs-take-it-one-step-at-a-time-to-succeed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/smbs-take-it-one-step-at-a-time-to-succeed\/","title":{"rendered":"SMBs take it one step at a time to succeed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Neil Armstrong\u2019s famous moon landing quote — \u201cOne small step for man<\/em>, one giant leap for mankind<\/em>\u201d — came to mind the other day. \u00a0Plantronics worked with NASA and all of the Apollo shuttles;\u00a0 but that wasn\u2019t the reason I thought of the quote. \u00a0I recalled Armstrong\u2019s words after reading \u201cWhy Entrepreneurs Will Save the World<\/a>,” which just ran on the Forbes site.\u00a0\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Forbes contributor Paul Brown contends that many policy makers and experts would like us to believe that effective and large scale change needs to come from the top down. However, he points out, change initiated from the top often collapses \u201cunder the weight of political ideology, infighting and competing personal agendas.\u201d\u00a0 The way to break inaction and make the impossible possible is through small smart steps<\/strong> — a pilot project or just a different way of doing something.<\/p>\n

Brown says of small, smart steps taken by individuals and organizations, \u201cYou don\u2019t know what is going to happen and the only way you\u2019re going to find out what is going to happen is take a step, and see where you are and figure out what the next step is.\u201d<\/p>\n

And here\u2019s where you come in. \u00a0\u201cAn entrepreneurial mindset\u00a0is a wonderful tool to use to try to solve what seem to be unsolvable problems\u2014everything from the health care crisis to social ills,\u201d says Brown.<\/p>\n

Brown\u2019s piece about the value of your\u00a0 entrepreneurship to our national well being echoes the sentiments of many expressed during and following last week\u2019s National Small Business Week<\/a>. Huffington Post, for example, ran \u201cSmall Business Week Wrap-up: Reminder to Keep Our Entrepreneurs Top of Mind All Year Long<\/a>,\u201d in which John Arensmeyer, founder and CEO, Small Business Majority<\/a> writes, \u201cIn early May, Automatic Data Processing, Inc. (ADP) released data revealing our nation’s smallest businesses — those with 1-49 employees — continue to outperform large businesses in the job creation arena. They generated roughly half of all new jobs in April, while large businesses created just over 3 percent.\u201d<\/p>\n

CompTIA,<\/a> the nonprofit association for the IT industry, too, sounded its renewed call<\/a> for greater attention and action by lawmakers and regulators to your needs. CompTIA said in an official press release:<\/p>\n

\u201cSmall-and medium-sized businesses are the lifeblood of the national economy, employing more than 50 percent of the country\u2019s private sector workforce. \u2026Within the IT industry, small technology companies account for 40 percent of all IT jobs and 98 percent of the nation\u2019s IT firms; employ millions of Americans; and contribute billions of dollars annually to the nation\u2019s economy.\u201d<\/p>\n

All this validates the vital role you play in moving our economy ahead and more.\u00a0 That\u2019s why you should be confident to reach for the moon in your business. You\u2019ve proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that you can do it – by taking just one step at a time.<\/p>\n

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