{"id":868,"date":"2012-10-02T08:54:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T12:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/?p=868"},"modified":"2015-11-15T21:53:54","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T02:53:54","slug":"missing-the-bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/2012\/10\/02\/missing-the-bus\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Miss the Bus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We, in business, use the term &#8220;<strong>Bus<\/strong>&#8221; often as an abbreviation for business and we have a habit of saying &#8220;threw them under the bus&#8221; as an euphemism for blaming someone for something that didn&#8217;t work.\u00a0 Thanks to Jim Collins, we also use the terms &#8220;<strong><em>get the right people on the bus and in the right seats<\/em><\/strong>&#8221; as he explains in &#8220;<a title=\"Good To Great by Jim Collins\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0066620996\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0066620996&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=changinglanes.biz-20\">Good to Great<\/a>&#8221;\u00a0 about people in the company and the company is the <strong>Bus<\/strong>.\u00a0 The bus really is a good illusion for business in many ways.<\/p>\n<p>Like a business Plan, a Bus has:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Vision &#8211; a school bus is taking children to obtain higher education &#8211; very lofty;<\/li>\n<li>Mission &#8211; safely deliver them on time to the school on a regular basis;<\/li>\n<li>Core Competencies &#8211; children are treated fairly; safety is first, bullies are contained;<\/li>\n<li>Desired Outcomes &#8211; Arrive safely and on time; and<\/li>\n<li>Projects &#8211; service bus, clean bus, greet children, assure parents.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I also like that if a bus is a business it would have financial statements that the owner (driver) would want to look at regularly.\u00a0 The combination of a business plan, financial statements, and other metrics are great ways to track your definition of success.\u00a0 Success in business is what you define it as but financials are important &#8211; especially to banks, IRS and employees wanting paychecks.<\/p>\n<p>As a business owner, getting your plan in order and knowing where you are on that road is key<em><strong> to not missing the bus<\/strong> <\/em>AND\u00a0 being a great <strong>Bus<\/strong> <strong>Driver<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0 Changing Lanes and the Maumee Chamber will be presenting &#8220;<a title=\"Financial Statement Workshop\" href=\"http:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/training-classes\/managing-your-financial-system\/understanding-financial-statements-for-non-financial-people\/\">Understanding Financial Statements<\/a>&#8220;, a good way to get started on the road to best <strong>BUS<\/strong> practices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We, in business, use the term &#8220;Bus&#8221; often as an abbreviation for business and we have a habit of saying &#8220;threw them under the bus&#8221; as an euphemism for blaming someone for something that didn&#8217;t work.\u00a0 Thanks to Jim Collins, we also use the terms &#8220;get the right people on the bus and in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12,24,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-culture","category-business-improvement","category-planning-for-business","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3216,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions\/3216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}