{"id":4598,"date":"2014-10-06T14:00:52","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T18:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/?p=4598"},"modified":"2024-02-14T10:38:31","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T15:38:31","slug":"knowing-your-weaknesses-might-be-your-biggest-strength","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/en\/blog\/knowing-your-weaknesses-might-be-your-biggest-strength\/","title":{"rendered":"Knowing Your Weaknesses Might Be Your Biggest Strength"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ryan Jackson, 2014 BDC Mentorship Award Winner, Certified Management Consultant, RAMECO Consulting Group, Futurpreneur Canada Mentor<\/em><\/p>\n

In my travels I have had the fortune of working with a significant number of different people and businesses. When I say different people I mean different talents and strengths, and by contrast different weaknesses as well.<\/p>\n

The real challenge I see that people face in the organizations that I work with or speak to is that some \u201cknow what they don\u2019t know\u201d but others \u201cdon\u2019t know what they don\u2019t know.” Confused?\u00a0 Just wait, it gets worse.<\/p>\n

It is generally good if you \u201cknow what you don\u2019t know.” These people or by extension their businesses are well served by the \u201cknow what we don\u2019t know\u201d group. This means that they can hire or work strategically to their strengths while surrounding themselves or their organizations with people that have strengths that address their weaknesses.<\/p>\n

Now, if you \u201cdon\u2019t know what you don\u2019t know\u201d that can be dangerous but not lethal. These people or by extension their businesses can be heading into troubled waters either operationally, financially or both and not even know it.<\/p>\n

An example of \u201cdon\u2019t know what you don\u2019t know\u201d might be a lack of knowledge of their finances or cash flow. They could be generating sales thinking business is great all the while the bank account is slowly shrinking due to poor margins, out of control expenses or both. This is both common and easily fixable with some help if it comes soon enough. Most of the time though the \u201cdon\u2019t know what they don\u2019t know\u201d crowd has to get into crisis mode before the help is not only sought after but the lesson learned.<\/p>\n

The worst one of the bunch is the \u201cdon\u2019t know but pretend to know\u201d crowd.\u00a0 These folks will be the first one to tell you what they think they know but don\u2019t.\u00a0 There is a fundamental lack of self-awareness of themselves and their businesses that defies logic and frustrates their customers and staff alike.\u00a0 The \u201cdon\u2019t know but pretend to know\u201d group usually gets taken care of by the marketplace one way or another. It is this group that typically won\u2019t take help from anyone even though they desperately need it because they know it all anyways.<\/p>\n

Of course we can all be accused of being in all three categories at one time but knowing what we don\u2019t know is can be your biggest strength.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ryan Jackson, 2014 BDC Mentorship Award Winner, Certified Management Consultant, RAMECO Consulting Group, Futurpreneur Canada Mentor In my travels I have had the fortune of working with a significant number of different people and businesses. When I say different people I mean different talents and strengths, and by contrast different weaknesses as well. The real […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entrepreneurship"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}