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LYNNE: We need to adapt to the way things are today. This afternoon isn't going to be
the same as it was this morning. Because the world is always evolving. They say every three
days, every three days, information has replaced itself. It's the good information phenomenon.
Change, adapt, and if you do, you'll grow. And you may be laying off people, or you may
not be laying off people. You may be having to do something different.
When you get to that point that change is happening out there, and you don't adapt to
that change, then you're going to cut off your arm. "Oh, I don't have any use for this
arm anymore, so I'm just going to cut it off." So if you don't change with the change that's
outside of you, and you don't adapt to that change, then you're not going to grow. But
when change happens and you adapt to that change by changing your way of thinking, you're
going to grow.
And the others, that's not your concern, right? These two people we talked about this morning,
they're not your concern. But you're concerning yourself with their results. And applying
them to you. I know you know that's silly, and I'm helping you understand how that's
silly.
SPEAKER 1: You're not doing a very good job of it.
LYNNE: No? (laughs) Hmm, okay. So we're going to have to spend some time one-on-one after.
You have to be willing to let it go.
SPEAKER 1: I understand the letting go process. I'm just having a hard time understanding
the growth and I've strived for 23 years to continue to grow the business in other altitudes,
other directions, with multiple partners. But in the process of growing, if something
outside of what I can control changes and I have to reduce part of the business, isn't
that changing?
LYNNE: Not necessarily, and yet why do you have to reduce that part of the business and
change that part of the business? Adapt to the change, and you'll continue to grow. That's
what we've seen as being the only option. Or the other option. One option is to continue
trying to force things and trying to control things. It's not there. The demand for your
service isn't there. Where is there a demand? Look outside of that, and see where there
is a demand. It could be in northern Ontario, or it could be in Nunavut, or it could be
in Spain.
"No, I've got to do it my way. I just want to stay at home. I don't want to leave my
environment. I like where I am." Yeah, you can like where you are and go there too. Who
knows? You just might love it there. That's the part is what we concern ourselves with.
What if I like it more over there than I do here? Well, you don't know till you go there.
And then so what if you do like it more over there? What if you never come back? So what?
SPEAKER 2: Too, if you hire another 20 people, you never know who those people might be and
how they could maybe end up helping your business. So if you do have to lay off 20 guys later,
maybe you might like some of the newer people that you got better for someone for your team,
or someone that you're going to lay off, somebody that isn't beneficial to you as much.
SPEAKER 1: Yeah. We've already seen that, because we've already hired some new people,
and some of these new people that we hired have more talent over some of the existing
people that we have.
LYNNE: And the other thing is that those people are coming to you now -- the new 20 you are
hiring -- they're coming to you now for something to facilitate their growth. So then, should
you need to release some of them -- you don't, but should you feel that you need to release
some of them later, they've grown with you. The reason they're being released then is
because they need to grow bigger than they can grow with you.