Launching a product or service to capitalise on a gap in the market is straight out of the syllabus of an MBA, it’s business 101. But it rarely works.
Why?
Because ‘why’ is missing.
Your ‘why’, your reason for being speaks louder than any marketing message. If you go after a gap in the market purely to capitalise on that, unrelated to your ‘why’ the market generally sees it for what it is, a cynical market play to gain share.
But when you launch a product or service that speaks directly to your ‘why’ the market sees it for what it is, another step towards achieving what you were put here to achieve.
(Check out the new financial services company we have just launched for doctors, MedCapital. My ‘why’ is that I believe that anything’s possible, that any individual or organisation can be exceptional, and that exceptional people change the world. You be the judge on whether this is a big step towards realising the vision I had when I created MedRecruit back in 2006.)
I have never resonated with the word ‘balance.’ It sounds too mediocre, too ‘little bit of everything done not that great.’
When I wash clothes, I leave the light on in the laundry room so I can’t forget about a wet load of washing in the machine.