Entrepreneurial Blog #11

This week we went over mini cases and were told what we would do in each situation. In this first scenario it's talking about going to an emergency meeting with a big customer or going to your daughters recital that you promised to go to. Despite the customer being a big part of the business and losing them would make some financial complications later down the line, I would still be choosing my family. By making that promise to my daughter that is something that I am not willing to break. I know that breaking promises early on can skew how my daughter view me later in life even is she were to learn why I did it. On another note letting a customer control that much of my business is unhealthy and is something that I am not really willing to keep on happening. Losing the client will open networking opportunities to find new clients that are willing to work with me and not have as much of a hold on the business. 


In the second scenario it talks about a Coach who got a great opportunity to work his dream coaching job. Although getting there he had to cut back on family time and now wife wants a divorce. Despite this situation in my opinion being a bit rash and I do not agree how the wife went about this. Choosing family is still the right option here. Family is something that you can always rely on and be there to support you even in your hardest days. If you lose this then you won't have anyone to lean back on and that is something that is very hard to lose in the long run. Taking the time to talk to my wife and figure something out would be the best way for me to figure this out and hopefully we can come to some sort of common ground and get to a solution that way. 

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