Treat Negativities as Opportunities

If you run a company without negative experience, we will love to know how you do it. Wouldn’t you? The negativities that cause issues are boundless. Your company cannot exclude the negativities, just like life needs negative experience. And the corporation has a life of its own. A general path to improvement is still problems, control and resolution.

Our negative experience never condemns us. On the contrary, it improves us. A threat is a huge problem. We can’t sugar coat it in any way to make it any less of a threat. Some people avoid anything risky. Others will tackles the problem, and gain from the experience. Sophists believe that everything have a downside. They would argue that the aptitudes depends on what people do.

Philosophy tries to understand peoples’ experience. They rationalize and analyze it for a deeper understanding. They can argue that no matter your capabilities or intelligent level, it is impossible to go beyond your capabilities. For clarification, you cannot exceed your proficiencies. It does not underestimate your capabilities, nor does it depict your abilities to know what’s best. But it does inform you of something that the universe agrees upon.

Business might not be about philosophy. But great managers are also philosophers. They can understand a deeper meaning beyond what is visible to the naked eyes. Some experts have argued that managers use philosophic terms when making strategic decisions and socializes with other people for business purposes.  The company has already gone through some negative impact. At time, this problem will become something that gradually becomes a potential new business.

How you tackle a threat can makes it either a problem or opportunity. Resolving a problem do not go anywhere beyond resolution. Going further than that makes it an opportunity. It is where we extend our resolution to something to act upon. For instance, a negative event that we’ve solved becomes an opportunity to reach a new market. It is a new enterprise.

If you don’t know the problems, you don’t know its possibilities or opportunities that comes with it. For you to treat a negative experience as opportunity, you need to stop looking at it as your own problem. And consider how many other companies/people haves the same problem. Isn’t that the main reason most companies were established? We have seen companies establishing a competitor against themselves, because they sees the need in market.

Some big companies have subsidiary company that supplies different components/services to the company. For example, a company has a goal of producing a technological device. After some time, they establish another company, with goals to supply themselves and others with a specific component that contribute to producing the device. This in combine will result in building the device. Later, they establish another one to supply a complementary service/component for the company.

In some cases, they could have a manufacturing company for mass-production, when it is more productive than outsourcing it. Some will have a company that market their products and services, while marketing others’ products in the process. These subsidiary companies contributes to the company. They have different things that collaborate to make the company productive. Each one of them was due to a negative experience.

Opportunity is within your grasps. But the most important thing is to find and embrace it, in order to explore it. This is why ambition is the key component in expanding our businesses. This is where it becomes an opportunity. If we don’t see a problem as an opportunity, we can’t see it as a potential expansion for the company. But as something to solve and move on. After this experience passed, we’d know where to improve.

In conclusion, our business face negative experiences that causes problems. But even though it is a problem, it is easier to decide how productive that problem might makes the business. Our corporate problems can expand it. It is where our abilities are being tested, and enhance our capabilities.