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What tpye of struggles surround being in the business field?
Trying to become a business major # #college-major #business-management #finance
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Harshinder’s Answer
Every Business has different struggles at different stages, Initially the struggle is to survive and client acquisition while maintaining costs as you wont be earning enough or no profits, Once the business is established you will struggle with more executive decisions such as expansion strategy, staffing strategy etc.
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Glendon’s Answer
The main struggles I find are around time management and prioritization. In my early career, I found that I would spend too much time on tasks that weren't part of my core goals and so would invite time pressure. I found that learning to prioritize and communicating clearly with my manager to understand his priorities was a huge help. I would also ensure that I allocated my time to my different project according to what priority level was assigned to it.
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Ingrid’s Answer
For those early in their careers, some of the most important skills to learn are time management around priorities, effective communication, building personal brand based on work/performance/interactions and identifying the career path that you want for yourself. Performance in tasks can be taught and learned and eventually becomes expected after the "new" phase passes, but self-management skills and soft skills are just as important.
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Le’s Answer
Your question is so general that I cannot answer it in specifically. However, i will give you the overview of business cycle which includes some phases with different struggles. In the early business stage when you just set up, you have to face with customers, how to have their attention due to your new products. You also prepare some first months to bare loss, human management. Everything is a mess at the beginning. After doing business for a long time enough, you have to face the development of products, increase profit, customer management, potential competitors and risks...Then, after development stage of product, you have to do a lot of efforts to make sure your revenue not decline. These struggles in this stage could be decreasing revenue, losing customer if you do not create the new products or make any improvements.
Decide which stage of your business to see what kinds of struggles
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You should ask struggles in terms of human,finance, time, ... don’t ask so general question.
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