Business Street Smarts

If you live in or near a big city, you probably know what street smarts are. Well, in business you have the same thing. Try to describe it and it's difficult but you know if you have it or not. You also get a good idea if the people you are working with or your employees are street smart. It's a definite advantage for people in sales, marketing or those growing a company.

Ever notice how young people graduate from college and start their first job and think they know it all? You can almost hear them say, "We didn't learn it that way in school." When working in business especially small business, the real education is learned on-the-job every day. College teaches logic and the basics of your subject area but just can't teach the abstract things that comes by doing.

Business street smarts is a valuable asset and takes years to acquire. Most of the people that built big companies out of start-ups certainly have it and a lot was learned from failures along the way. But once you have it, you'll probably never lose it and it will guide you to success.
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