#ZIGZAG LINES WATERSNAKE SKIN#
Moult your business: "But time strips our illusions of their hue, and one by one in turn, some grand mistake casts off its bright skin yearly like the snake," wrote the English Romantic poet Lord Byron. Inspiration: Knowing that the Year of the Black Snake promises to have change and lots of surprises in store, why not adopt the flexibility of the snake for your business? How can you twist or evolve the more rigid joints in your business and make them more flexible? How can you make your business flexible enough that you can swallow prey much larger in size? This is possible because snakes have evolved extremely flexible lower jaws and other joints in their skulls, enabling them to open their mouths wide enough to swallow their prey whole. Interestingly, many snakes can swallow prey that is larger in diameter than their head. If you want to get creative in 2013, look for answers to these wilder questions: how can you add legs to a business that looks like a snake? If your competitors move forward in a straight line, how can you zigzag your business to success? Or to look at it another way: what are areas in which you can zag when all others always zig?įlex your business: Snakes kill with venom, by constriction or by simply swallowing living prey whole. Inspiration: Given that snakes are among the most successful and competitive animals in the struggle for survival, why not learn from their hunting methods? Ask yourself: how can you place your business on firmer ground in a year predicted to be shaky? And once you are firmly grounded, how can you create an early warning system so you notice market vibrations and smell opportunity? Instead they flex their bodies alternately to the left and right and move forward in fast zigzag waves that allow them to catch and attack their prey. And while a Chinese proverb humorously suggests that you "add legs to the snake after you have finished drawing it", snakes don't come with legs they can use to hunt down their prey. For the most part, they lie flat on the ground or climb trees, making most snake species heavily reliant on sensing vibration and smell to locate prey. Zigzag your business: Snakes are among the oldest and thus, in evolutionary terms, most successful body designs on Earth. To help plan the details of each action in one of these areas, you can follow a format that we call the 5W2H Action Plan: what exactly do we want to do? Why is this important to do in 2013? Who is involved in this action? When do we plan to do this? Where does the action take place? How precisely do we plan to do this? How much does it cost? For example, at my company we structure our business into five functions _ creation, marketing and sales, operations, finance and legal, and a strategic core that holds everything together. Inspiration: To prepare your business for all the surprising twists and turns of the Year of the Black Snake, why not map out all your planned actions on a "Black Snake Year Road Map"? Write down the major business actions you have planned for each month of this Black Snake year, splitting your activities into four or five main areas. Fields said, "Always carry a flagon of whisky in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake." So in this Year of the Black Snake, plan ahead and be more careful than usual. Therefore, many Chinese astrologers predict the Black Snake year 2013 will bring unexpected changes, instability and volatility.įor that reason they advise that in 2013, it is important to plan everything and carefully evaluate pros and cons before taking any action. Prepare your business: Black is the colour associated with the Water Snake, the colour of darkness _ the darkness of space, of the night, of deep waters, of an abyss.
What inspiration can we get from the snake to help us flourish and succeed in the Year of the Snake and beyond? Kung Hei Fat Choy, Happy Chinese New Year! This is the Year of the Snake, specifically the Water Snake.
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