By John C. Maxwell

Sometimes you have a minute to make a difference, sometimes you have a few seconds to make a difference. If you are lucky, you have an hour or maybe a day or two to make a difference. Time crunches in on you when a disaster like the terrorist attack on September 11th strikes. At that time, leadership emerges. Whether it is your greatest hour or your worst is up to you.

In every age, there comes a time when a leader must come forward to meet the needs of the hour. Therefore, there is no potential leader who does not have the opportunity to make a positive difference in society. Tragically, there are times when a leader does not rise to the hour.

The following are seven leadership practices seen in times of crisis:

Stand up and be seen.

Justice must not only be done but must be seen to be done. The same goes for leadership. This is not the time to lock yourself away in strategy sessions. It is time to be visible.

Embrace brutal optimism.

In the end, the best leaders combine two countervailing messages. Jim Collins, a management thinker and the author of “Good to Great”, sometimes describes this as the “Churchill paradox.” On the one hand was the Prime Minister’s grim promise of “blood, toil, tears, and sweat” in the near term. On the other was his upbeat certainty that England would prevail “however long and hard the road may be.”

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Some might say recession is not good but others would say it’s a great opportunity! I agree that this is the right timing for us to recess our mind and find that opportunity we are passionate about….Great to know that we have even more opportunities on this generation than it was the last time of so-called recession or depression.

Investopedia Says: “Recession is a normal (albeit unpleasant) part of the business cycle. A recession generally lasts from six to 18 months.” Could they really predict the exact time and just wait there like most of us Aussies would say “it should be right mate?”  Isn’t it interesting that we are all given the choice to seek, find, and research where the opportunities lie behind this so-called recession we are today?

Home-based business opportunity is booming like it has never been before in our global economy. Kiyosaki & Trump’s book stated “If I had to do it all over again rather than build an old style of business a Referral Marketing Business.” In Australia alone, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) in 2003, as many as 67% of all 784,800 small businesses in Australia, were actually home based businesses. With an estimated 4% increase rate per year.

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