How Many Ducks Make A Row?

Spring is here and the New England tourist season is quickly approaching.  Wheather you are a business owner or someone with a profession geared toward tourism, you may have a few goal oriented questions on your mind.  How do I make more revenue/wages this time around? How will I be better at my profession/operating my business? What do I need to change and what do I need to improve?  Step one to answering all of your questions is "Get Your Ducks In a Row."  This popular phrase when disected can provide more meaning and assistance than you would assume. First ask "what are my ducks?" and second "how many ducks make a row?" I will prove all that is needed is one duck.

Begin with the first, what are my ducks? Lets assume ducks represent problems.  The most important task in aligning your ducks is to determine the appropriate problems to correct.  You could make a long list of major to small problems, however you must correct only the ones that will strongly impact your goals and possibly correct other problems along the way.  Lets say for example your problem is concerning overtime wages, take a look at your employees can they be more qualified? More experienced? When considering how to solve this problem you can either focus on training/certifying your employees or even replacing them to create more efficient work time.  Consider other problems this solution will solve, quality of service/product, employee confidence, customer satisfaction, or your bottom line or maybe all of the above.  Solving one problem in this case has provided a solution to many other problems.

Addressing the second component, "how many ducks make a row", imagine every problem when solved deliberately or as a byproduct is placed behind you.  This process will leave remaining problems ahead and place problems solved  behind, keep in mind problems, are figuratively speaking ducks. So how many ducks make a row, well naturally any quantity more than one will create a row.  I believe tending to one duck will instigate others to follow and you will have your row.

My answer against all definitions you can make a row with only one duck.