{"id":4425,"date":"2024-02-04T23:55:12","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T05:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:10043\/?p=4425"},"modified":"2024-09-16T09:19:04","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T15:19:04","slug":"if-we-take-the-risk-on-the-icy-street-or-in-business-we-will-face-ditches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.atiba.com\/if-we-take-the-risk-on-the-icy-street-or-in-business-we-will-face-ditches\/","title":{"rendered":"If we take the risk on the icy street or in business, we will face ditches"},"content":{"rendered":"

This article originally appeared in\u00a0The Tennessean<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

I crept up the driveway and cautiously looked both ways.<\/p>\n

The coast was clear.<\/p>\n

As I slowly made my way on to our snow covered street, I was careful to keep an equal distance between the wide but shallow ditch on my right and the narrow but deep ditch on my left. \u00a0They both looked treacherous.<\/p>\n

With no one else on the road, my strategy was simple: drive slowly, stay in the middle, and avoid the ditches at all costs.<\/p>\n

Making my way down our hilly street I noticed several of my neighbors\u2019 cars were already stuck.\u00a0 Two were on my left, in the wide shallow ditch that appeared to have gently slid off the road. And one was in the narrow but deep ditch on my right, that looked to have a decent amount of damage.<\/p>\n

To avoid joining them, I kept my focus on staying in the middle, careful to avoid the pitfalls that threatened on both sides.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t easy, but I was holding my own.<\/p>\n

Like many of us that live in the South, my ditch-avoiding experience during a snow storm is limited.<\/p>\n

But the concept of avoiding ditches isn\u2019t unfamiliar.<\/p>\n

As a businessperson, whether it\u2019s winter, summer, spring or fall, I have to navigate around ditches every day.\u00a0 In many ways, these \u201cbusiness ditches\u201d are even more treacherous than roadside ditches because they are more difficult to spot.<\/p>\n

In business as on the street, there are three types of ditches you can fall into:<\/p>\n