Crisis: Time to rise up and face the challenge

At this moment especially after September 2008, the word is suffering a global financial crisis. This crisis started in the USA due to Banks, like Lenheman and Brothers going bankrupt.

The environment is panic! That’s sad, because this year in Brazil we are living in a time of growth, the economy has been great, the sale of cars, item for house like: TVs, DVDs, refrigerators, etc, have been very high. In fact, record high!

Everybody has been buying a lot, travelling around the world, as the was down. While the EUA was already in crisis, gas was U$ 4,84 in August when I was there, people were losing their houses, the consumer spending was decreasing.

Result: the crisis exploded around the world, the G9 became G20, now including countries in development like BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) and others. These leaders are now together to discuss how to defeat the crisi. Therefore, it is a new economic chart that is forming.

In my opinion, in the crisis we have the opportunity to succed ourselves. There is a popular phrase that says: “While someone is crying, others sell wipes to dry the tears.”

In my office we are experiencing a crisis, everybody is scared, consultant are paralised and that is bad, because we, the consultants, earn money according to our production, in others words, if we don’t generate business the company we don’t get paid.

At this point there are people who are crying and others are “selling wipes”. In others words, they are visiting clients, having business lunches, increasing their networking and selling new projects.

What I mean is: even in a crisis we can succeed and stretch our limits. In my case I see this period as an opportunity to be visible in my company.

I’m working so hard and I’m sharing some ideas to improve the business, to get more clients, organize some presentations for clients, doing “cold calls” in pharmaceutical companies, agroculture business and Brazilian banks.

I’ve passed through many crisis, different kind of crisis. So, for me it is just one more crisis. I’m confident I will succeed with honor and I will be strongest in the end.