subject: The Auction Industry & Az Auctions [print this page] Over the years, AZ auctions have changed from a simple warehouse, to a highly technological bidding war that includes people across the globe. This article talks about the changes in the auction industry. Specifics may vary from auction to auction; however, the following information includes helpful and important guidelines from which everyone can benefit.
During the past week, I have heard several people say, "I am doing the best I can do". Every time someone utters those words it makes a sound equivalent to long fingernails being slowing moved along a dirty chalkboard. In fact this idle phrase goes in the same category as "I can't disagree with you" in offering a non-committal understanding of a suggestion. Even in a bargaining situation, we often ask, "Is that the best you can do?" The assumption being that someone can always do better.
Growth and challenge is just that - when you were eighteen months old, the best you could do was crawl, but around 2 years of age you learned to walk and eventually you began to run. If settling for your "best" ceased at eighteen months then you would still be dragging your legs behind with your dirty hands pulling your weight along the floor. It is hard to constantly raise your sights to doing better, but without doing so, don't you just become stagnate and wither away?
Our auction industry has changed so much in the past ten years and the huge revisions indicate that no one who propelled the auction industry into the World Wide Web settled for auctions having achieved the very best. Simulcast auction technology is better today than it was even six months ago. Clerking software is a far cry from paper tickets and slot boxes. And the word "auction" has become part of every American's household vocabulary. Our profession achieved these heights because someone wasn't willing to settle for their "best".
As auction firms we constantly strive to sell our services as more superior than our competitors or better suited to meet our client's needs. Reinventing ourselves to meet today's market demands is an ordinary part of everyday business. We always strive to do more, sell for higher and be more improved than the day before. But the question begs do we require the same from ourselves personally? What have you done lately that can point to your advancement in being better and requiring more from yourself?
It isn't easy to always be your best. And it certainly puts a tremendous amount of pressure on oneself to constantly require more. But we have robust resources today that are available to us in the information age. If you simply want to be better a word processing, all that is required is to sign on the Internet, visit a word processing tutorial and within a couple of hours you will have improved your skills more than 10%.
Furthering you, pushing to be more valuable and striving for excellence does put on a tremendous strain. To use an old Zig Ziegler phrase, "It takes pressure to make a diamond out of sand." I promise you this - what you are producing today will not be what the marketplace will need or want from you in five years. We are too advanced as a marketplace to be stagnate and settle for anyone's "best" - especially our own.
