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Thoughts on transitions in business and how you handle change.

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The funny thing about transitions.

Hi I’m Brian Pombo, welcome back to Brian J Pombo Live.

I want to talk a little bit about transitions because we’re going through quite a few transitions here at Brian J Pombo. Live.

We’re kind of restructuring how we’re doing things.

I mean, everything’s always in transition if you’re looking at the right way, but we’re restructuring things, we’re shutting down some projects some long term projects that we’ve been working on, and opening up new ones that I’ve been hinting at for a while, but putting a lot more energy and focus into that.

And the funny thing about transitions is everyone handles it a little bit differently. Some people get really freaked out about new things and trying out something new and ending something that you’ve done for a long time.

I’m lucky that I don’t have a huge staff or anything of that sort. It’s all designed to be able to run and turn quickly. And as I’ve been discussing it with the people that I do work with, we realize that certain things have to change.

At first, that can cause a little bit of trepidation but if you back away from it, it can get really exciting.

Now I have a funny thing about my personality, being that I’m entrepreneurial, and very, very much an innovator, if you will, I love transitions, I love the beginning of anything, the ending of things I’m not that great with but the beginning of new things, make the ending of other things even better.

So I’m always for the beginning, I’m always hot to try it when we’re first running out the door. So we’re working on a new project and I’ve got these books all laid out.

I’m highlighting them and I’m organizing and I’m putting things together and kind of drawing out a map of where to go.

Now when it starts getting into the real nitty-gritty and really getting into the into, into getting things done. I’m not as good at that. That’s the time I want to start something new, you know, but everybody’s a little bit different.

And you got to be aware of that, especially if you’re working with a team of people. Everybody handled these things differently, it really is built into how your brain functions.

A whole lot has been put into this in terms of research and I always recommend people look into Kathy Kolbe’s work.

Really good stuff, Kathy spells her name with a K and her last name, also with a K.

So it’s Kathy Kolbe, go check out Kolbe.com, and look up the stuff regarding the Kolbe index, because they’ve been able to find that there’s a certain part of the brain, right that they call the conative center of the brain, where you pretty much it’s set to run a certain way pretty much your entire life.

And that from the time you’re a baby all the way till when they put you in the ground.

I mean that that’s how you function. And it’s even more pervasive than what people would normally consider personality, and it’s how you work.

It’s how you function in work.

And some people enjoy during certain types of things.

They could do that in a whole bunch of different careers but there’s one thing they really have an aptitude for, and everything else they may not have.

And some people they’re spread out in their aptitude and other people are, are very specific, or they have a couple of things that they do very well and everything else they’re not as good at.

A lot of times when we get involved in teams of people, especially with work, we think that our way is the right way.

Especially if we’ve got some other things that we’re on the ball on, we think well, but clearly, they haven’t figured this part out about life yet. It’s not true. Everybody runs differently.

That’s how these things all work together. It’s why you need a team of people is because we don’t all have it all. And even the people that are more spread out more even keel in how they work. It’s what Kathy calls a facilitator, a person who has a wide range.

They can’t just do everything all the time. They’re there to help facilitate and allow things to move along. It doesn’t mean that they’re that yes, they can do just about anything, but it doesn’t mean that they can stick to that long term.

So it has a lot of interesting nuances to this. It’s important that you do not just experience it, but that you just talk about it.

You discuss these ideas out there, and that you study some more always learn more about how people function because there’s always someone out there that doesn’t function quite like you and that’s that really is the funny thing about transitions.

It brings out a lot of these ideas and people and shows you where people’s strengths and weaknesses are.

And just because they have weaknesses doesn’t mean you need to get you to need to fix them. Sometimes you just need to put someone with strength in that area working in that area. Hopefully, that makes sense.

That’s just got quick it was just a quick idea for tonight because I am in this, this movement of transition and it’s exciting. I’m having a great time. I hope you’re having a good time doing whatever you’re doing.

Hey, if you’re looking to kind of broaden your horizons, in terms of making yourself completely competition proof. I have kind of a background in business strategy, even though I’m a Business Investor.

That’s kind of where I come from a strategy standpoint. I wrote a book called, 9 Ways to Amazon-Proof Your Business. You go get a free copy at AmazonProofBook.com where you can go and buy a copy off of Amazon or Barnes and Noble or wherever you buy books.

That’s all I got for tonight. You have a good one. Get out there and let the magic happen.