Posts Tagged ‘plans’

“I learned to embrace risk, as long as it was well thought out and, in a worst-case scenario, I’d still land on my feet.”
– Eli Broad
Great ventures not only have basic plans to start them on a great course for their journey but they also develop master plans for ultimate success early on in their [...]

“In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
In all things, planning serves a purpose.  The purpose in NOT to develop perfect plans!  It is to channel and challenge your advance worrying.  It is to work through your thoughts and ideas on what is possible.  [...]

No matter what goes on in the economy or world, we all arrive at an equilibrium that is determined by the driving forces and restraining forces in our lives.  This equilibrium ultimately determines the results we get relative to the economy.
In booming times, our personal equilibrium is able to produce better results than what we [...]

Are you transitioning in these tough times?  Well, you should be whether it is being forced on you or you are driving the transition process yourself. The economy has dramatically changed during the last year and a half. When we exit this recession, successful individuals and companies will look much different than they did before.
If [...]

We are now 18 long months into this recession and it is getting tougher and tougher for more people to survive the recession and have any hope of returning to a lifestyle they once enjoyed before the recession.  5.7 Million jobs have been lost since January 2008 and many other lives have been disrupted and [...]

Long-term Strategic Planning is a thing of the past. At least it is in the form that it took in the 20th Century. Many of the components of a long-term strategic plan are still important and relevant today but some aspects of the 20th Century strategic planning process are now antiqued. The strategic planning process [...]

You start a new year. You have New Year resolutions. You have goals for the year. You have plans. You know where you’re going and you are committed to getting there.
 
Then, out of the blue, just as you start to make the real progress, life gets in the way. Something unexpectedly comes up…a significant problem [...]