Sean University, Pet Week Special: Your Business's Spirit Animal

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Here at the Sean Adams University of Business Management Development Leadership, we always say "Businesses are like people." Sure, there are some things that people have that businesses donâ??t, like arms and legs. But there are a lot of other things that people and businesses both have, like a drive to succeed or a printer. Another thing that every person and every business has is a spirit animal: an animal that corresponds specifically to its personality, its soul, and sometimes its odor...

With people itâ??s easy to figure out. For example, if a person you know is really into sitting on windowsills and looking longingly at birds flying by, that personâ??s spirit animal is probably a cat or a bird that suffers from crippling self-doubt. If a person plays the trumpet, their spirit animal is either a trumpeter swan or an elephant - consult their physique for further similarities. If a person eats bugs, you don't care what their spirit animal is because who wants to hang out with people who eat bugs?

Businesses are a bit harder to pin down. But if you let a little difficulty keep you from completing essential business tasks, you might as well forget about ever advertising your business on sandwich boards, because trust us, that gets really old after like ten minutes. Luckily, here at Sean University weâ??re experts on both business and animals. So here are a few common business methods weâ??ve noticed and their corresponding spirit animal.

• Despite it being huge, nobody even knows if your business really exists. Your businessâ??s spirit animal is: a giant squid.
• It takes forever for your business to do anything, and when someone calls you out for your slowness, everyone gets very introspective. That, or they bite the person who called them out and never ever let go. Your businessâ??s spirit animal is: a snapping turtle.

• Your business appears to be doing nearly nothing at all. Nobody pays attention to it until your goods/services begin slowly making their way into the community. At first, your impact is faint and almost unnoticeable, but soon it becomes overbearing and someone has to open a window. Your businessâ??s spirit animal is: a sleeping dog.
• Everyone at your business is really weird and none of your employeesâ?? clothes ever match. Your businessâ??s spirit animal is: duck-billed platypus.
• There is much unrest in your business. Higher-ups are always fighting about the direction they would like the company to go in. Eventually the tension becomes too great and the company splits into two very similar businesses. And both businesses are pretty gross and nobody wants to touch them. Your businessâ??s spirit animal is: an earthworm.
• Your business moves fast. Every day is a race to overcome your competition, and you never waste a second in reacting instantly to the latest twists and turns. Thereâ??s also this weird thing where, from time to time, your business needs to kill and eat a zebra to survive. Your businessâ??s spirit animal is: a cheetah.

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