Radical Business – How to Burn Bridges in Business!

Believe it or not, knowing how to burn bridges is one of the most essential skills to running a business. Sometimes, you simply need to focus more on business instead of chit-chatting with someone you know.

Why?

You need to be more efficient, get more things done. By keeping all your networking connections unlimited you are bound to get unnecessary sales calls, e-mails, and whatnot. If those connections help you, that’s great but if they don’t, it’s time to BURN BRIDGES.

So how do you go about solving this inefficiency?

Not always but there are times where you must burn the bridge, put a TNT there and blow it up so no one can ever cross it again. Recently I did this with a company I was working with. They were pissing me off, playing me around like a hockey puck, I FIRED a bazooka at their company. No longer do I wish to waste my time with unprofessional dicks.

Of course, don’t worry that you ever burned a bridge, there’s also ways to “rebuild” a bridge. But for our purposes of getting things done (TODAY), you need to learn to burn bridges. It’s a hard skill to learn because you need to directly at the person/company and tell them to FUCK OFF. As a boss/owner of business, you need to do it because this skill will ultimately help you weed out the inefficiencies in your business.

And I bet you, you are probably doing this all the time in regular life anyways, you just haven’t realized you are burning bridges when you walk away from people without telling them WHY. (and yes, don’t even waste time telling them WHY, just burn the bridge and move on.)

Sometimes, life is simple, keep it simply by focusing on what you do best.

As for me, I enjoy burning bridges to get more things done. Most people who never burn bridges never find out their full potential because they don’t have the guts to say NO, FUCK OFF, etc…etc…

When it comes to push and shove, you will always get a big NO-NO from me.

I’ve fired my web hosting companies about a dozen times, I’ve wrote blog posts detailing a company’s faults, I go after scammers like it was my number one enemy. These are all examples of burning bridges mostly because I don’t have time to chit-chat with them, I need problems solved last month, not me being stuck on their technical support line or calling my credit card company because I got scammed.

Burning bridges can also be very fun and save you a ton of time. Making friends is probably a good thing but I’ve had enough hardships in my life that I KNOW friendships don’t pay your rent, smart thinking does.

You must remember one rule in business, “THERE’S NO ONE ELSE TO BLAME FOR FAILURE BUT YOU.” If someone is not helping you get ahead in your business, you better damn do something about it, don’t just sit there and smile. (pretending nothing bad is happening.) NOTHING is the worst thing you can do, DO SOMETHING ALWAYS!

Just think of business as a video game like Super Mario Brothers where you must keep going forward and get those 1-up life mushrooms while burning those bridges so the enemies can’t get to you. Well, you need to have the skills to evaluate quickly who is going to help you and who is not.

On a side note, burning bridges doesn’t mean you hate someone, it simply means you need to shut off that part of your life (perhaps temporarily) as it’s not helping you in anyway or simply wasting a lot of your time.

I tend to get very loose sometimes and let a lot of people into my personal life. If I get to that point, I will realize that and start burning bridges until I can get back on track. As a busy business person, I simply don’t have more than 3 sentences to spare, even to best of my friends. I am very busy like that nursery rhyme, “My name is Busee because I am always busy.”

Next time, I will show you how to get a “rhythm” going for your life and business, another crucial skill you will need to run your own business. Getting things done consistently means you are working in “rhythm” and when you get a rhythm going, there’s nothing that can stop you from success. (except God)

I just hope you get one thing from this blog post, think of just ONE person/company you are currently working with right now that is most time-consuming yet makes you NOTHING of real value. Now, please burn the bridges with that person/company for the next 3 months. I assure you, you will get much more done over the next 3 months, plus that person/company might be willing to offer you better terms/conditions in the long run.