Hi, everyone. Im j. J. Ramburg. Welcome to your business, the program dedicated to helping your business grow. Thrive. It is that time again and National Small business week begins today. From april 30th through may 6th, the u. S. Small Business Administration will recognize the achievements of the nations top Small Businesses, rurs, Small Business advocates and champions. And we get the chance here to kick it off with the newly appointed head of the u. S. Small Business Administration, administrator linda mcmahon. Shell be traveling around this week. Very nice to see you, administrator. Thank you very much, j. J. Its good to be with you. We are thrilled to have you. And this is your first time as the head of the sba for Small Business week. What do you hope to get out of the next week . The next week is really the opportunity for our country to salute our nations 28 million Small Businesses. We are recognizing the Small Business person of the year from each state and from the u. S. Te
start-ups are hard. they are hard work and challenging. there is a reason most start-ups fail. if you are transparent and honest and have a culture where that is embraced, i think your employees and team members will appreciate that and everyone should feel like a founder. i have a challenge for you. both of you i m sure have been through hard times with your company. it is great to be transparent when everything is going well. we re having a hard time here. what do you think we should do? what do you do when evenirythin is tanking and you want to be transparent and you want people motivated? honesty is the best policy. people can sniff it on you if you are trying to hide something or skirt the topic. hit the nail on the head. actually tell them what s going on. you can t solve everything yourself. you will need the help of the team to solve whatever issue are you going through. it is better to be honest to come to a conclusion.
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