Business Lessons from “A Christmas Story”

With Christmas and New Years days falling on Monday’s this season, I am going to take a couple weeks off from the podcast and even publishing next week  Both will be updated with fresh material on January 8, 2024.

In the meantime, I am sharing the content from last weeks Sound ADvice newsletter that you can get free from me by sending me an email to Scott@WOWO.com

Have a very Merry, Blessed and Happy Christmas and Holiday season!

I wanted to take this opportunity to say thank you to the thousands of business owners and managers all across the United States who read SoundADvice each week.

My hope and our goals are that you find the articles worthwhile and that they help provide some thought-provoking ideas on how you can run your business more smoothly and more efficiently.

As we did last year, again this year in the spirit of Christmas we will lighten the topic, while still hopefully providing some valuable business and marketing lessons.

As a reminder, last year we wrote about The Leadership Secrets of Santa Claus. Santa is a great leader, and his leadership lessons not only work in the North Pole but will work in any business as well.

While researching for this year’s Christmas edition of SoundADvice, I stumbled upon a newsletter published by Forbes in December 2014. The lessons are from one of the all-time great Christmas movies, “The Christmas Story”. If you recall, this beloved holiday movie follows the exploits of Ralphie Parker who spends most of his time dodging his nemesis and bully Scut Farkus. In the movie, Ralphie’s only wish for his Christmas gift is a “Red Ryder Air Rifle”.  The movie takes you through the trials and tribulations of his quest for the perfect gift.

The business lessons that can be taken from the movie, while somewhat simple, can also be impactful.

Lesson #2 – Don’t Bow to Pressure. Competitors, colleagues, and economic pressures find ways of triple-dog daring businesspeople into making poor decisions. Lowering standards to compete or ride out an economic rough patch, for example, can sometimes seem like the only option. But it rarely is the right one.

To see all Five Business Lessons Learned from “A Christmas Story”, click here.

In the end, Ralphie gets his Red Ryder Air Rifle and learns many valuable lessons along the way.

As we wrap up 2023, we hope that SoundADvice has and will continue to provide you with valuable lessons so that you too can reach your goals.

From all of us here, we wish you a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy, Healthy, and Successful 2024.