{"id":15030,"date":"2019-08-12T08:13:34","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T08:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.icebreakerexecutive.com\/?p=15030"},"modified":"2019-08-12T08:13:34","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T08:13:34","slug":"we-seem-to-be-losing-our-skills-to-make-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/winningthinking.co.uk\/?p=15030","title":{"rendered":"We seem to be losing our skills to make money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you recognise this, we seem to be losing our skills to make money? Heres a common observation from our recent engagements&#8230; are you a lightly resourced tech business trying to standardise your tech products to &#8220;<a id=\"ember51847\" class=\"hashtag-link ember-view\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/hashtag\/?highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A6564100497744158720&amp;keywords=%23scaleup&amp;originTrackingId=r5gYJ%2FSdQsmuTvtsFDq0wQ%3D%3D\" target=\"_self\" data-control-name=\"update_hashtag\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span id=\"ember51848\" class=\"hashtag-a11y ember-view\" dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"visually-hidden\">hashtag<\/span><span aria-hidden=\"true\">#<\/span><span class=\"hashtag-a11y__name\">scaleup<\/span><\/span><\/a>&#8221; when all you are doing is trashing your own niche market, value add and gross margin? There is a variety of thinking that gives rise to this, which unless addressed creates a catch22 and time-consuming race to the bottom&#8230; You can never outperform your <a id=\"ember51851\" class=\"hashtag-link ember-view\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/hashtag\/?highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A6564100497744158720&amp;keywords=%23thinking&amp;originTrackingId=r5gYJ%2FSdQsmuTvtsFDq0wQ%3D%3D\" target=\"_self\" data-control-name=\"update_hashtag\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span id=\"ember51852\" class=\"hashtag-a11y ember-view\" dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"visually-hidden\">hashtag<\/span><span aria-hidden=\"true\">#<\/span><span class=\"hashtag-a11y__name\">thinking<\/span><\/span><\/a>&#8230; your thinking drives all of your actions. have a great day? cheers Tom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you recognise this, we seem to be losing our  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - 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