The electorate has decided that the UK should leave the EU.  How best can SMEs respond to the coming changes?   Whether you are pleased with the outcome or dismayed is irrelevant.  The decision has been made.  What you need to focus on is how best to manage and grow your business in the short to medium term.  Long term planning is more difficult as the Brexit option only leads to many uncertainties.     The first thing is - Don't Panic.  Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it seems.  Every triumph always has at least some form of downside, and every disaster  (except perhaps illness and death) is never as black as it first appears.  There is almost always some benefit to be found, and things are very rarely as bad as they seem initially.   As small business owners we are naturally optimistic people.  We would not have started and continued to run our businesses if we were not naturally hopeful.   Now is the time to start thinking … [Read more...]