Summary: <a href="http://brianjpombo.com/is-your-business-truly-open/"></a><br> <br> <br> <a href="http://DreamBizChat.com">http://DreamBizChat.com</a><br> <br> <br> <br> Is your business truly open?<br> <br> <br> <br> Hi I’m Brian Pombo welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live. Coming to you live today from Tracy, California on our trip, our California trip, which will be over soon.<br> <br> <br> <br> I wanted to go over a concept of being open and how open is your business.<br> <br> <br> <br> And when I’m talking about being open, it really comes down to open with your customers, with your clients, with your employees, with your partners.<br> <br> <br> <br> Open on an interpersonal level is what I want to talk about.<br> <br> <br> <br> So I was sitting back tonight and watching a TV show.<br> <br> <br> <br> Not sure if you’ve ever seen The Prophet. I know it’s shown a couple of different places. They show reruns on CNBC was watching an old rerun of the prophet where he’s working with his fellow, his name is Marcus LeBoldus and he gets brought into companies that are having trouble to help turn him around.<br> <br> <br> <br> He was working with a company and ended up becoming a partner with them and becoming the majority owner of the company coming in, buying out the other partners. <br> <br> <br> <br> Even though the other partners were still engaged with the business, they did not have the clout that they once had, so he was basically in charge and going through and talking to former employees and trying to get an understanding for what went wrong, what went right.<br> <br> <br> <br> It turns out all the employees hated the person that owned the business originally, but they couldn’t say it and they had all years and years of built up resentment and all these things that they knew that he was doing wrong, but they couldn’t tell him because they were too afraid of getting fired.<br> <br> <br> <br> What I want to ask you is, the tough question is, do you have a situation like that on your hands?<br> <br> <br> <br> Are you open enough that you’re willing to handle, head on, all the problems and criticisms that your employees, the people work with you, for you around you, that they have against you and the way you do business?<br> <br> <br> <br> Are you open enough to be able to take criticism from your own customers and be able to consider what they’re saying?<br> <br> <br> <br> It doesn’t mean that they’re right, but are you open enough?<br> <br> <br> <br> Are you asking for it?<br> <br> <br> <br> Are you out there asking for criticism directly and open to hearing someone else’s point of view?<br> <br> <br> <br> One thing I found is most business owners is they just are not open to it and they don’t go looking for it. They try to sweep it the rug and they enjoy the fact that they have the power over their employees and so forth and that it keeps everybody in line and keeps everyone from criticizing and what you end up happening is having a very broken company at the end of that.<br> <br> <br> <br> So do yourself a favor, open things up as soon as possible.<br> <br> <br> <br> Bring in a third party that can come in and open up communications between you and the people you work with.<br> <br> <br> <br> It will make a huge difference.<br> <br> <br> <br> It’s one of the big areas that I look for when I’m working with a new client is somebody that’s open or willing to be more open with the people that they work with. It makes a huge difference in the long run.<br> <br> <br> <br> Hopefully this is helpful to you.<br> <br> <br> <br> If you are in the self reliance field, meaning you’ve got products and services that help people become more self reliant,
