Business Goals
Business Goals give a business consistency and growth.
You are making dozens of business decisions each day, and knowing what you are working towards makes the difference between good decisions and bad surprises.
How do you manage so many decisions and still keep business management simple? There is a lot that you can not control in business, so it pays to focus your efforts on the things that you can control. The Progress program gives you and outsourced Chief Strategist Officer for professional advice and performance tracking.
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It is a growing trend to see businesses allocate specific time to strategy and innovation. And that’s a good thing. But it shouldn’t stop there. Innovation will be effective if it is based on the correct information. That information gathering should be happening continuously. Here are two ways you can build innovative thinking into your…
Read MoreIt is helpful, every now and then, to get a little bit philosophical. Last week’s look at passion was a chance to remind yourself that working through the challenges and successes of running a business is part of the fun. Or “fun”. It does not, however, stop there. Passion, to have impact, requires action. And…
Read MoreThis weekend we will see the opening of the FIFA Women’s World Cup; that is the soccer world cup of women’s national teams. You may already be familiar with my soccer/business analogy, and how a well-run business also has a front office, a midfield, and a defense. Women’s soccer specifically brings us another analogy about…
Read MoreLast week I promised more information about the various competitive forces a business faces. In past posts we have tackled the categories of direct competition. This makes up just one of Porter’s Five Forces. What is the Five Forces model Michael Porter developed his “Five Forces of Competitive Position Analysis” in 1979, creating some timeless…
Read MoreI recently had occasion to revive this Gary Vaynerchuk classic quote: Make Money: Don’t Raise Money As business mantras go, this one is pretty powerful. In this case Gary Vee has two main points in mind: the importance of sales capabilities, and the sustainability of the VC culture (which he questions). There is a more…
Read MoreHaving only one goal will cannibalize your pursuits. Here is why.
Read MoreLast January I talked about new year’s habits as an option to new year’s resolutions: New year’s resolutions are list items we can start to forget by about mid-February. New year’s goals are targets we can miss and return to for the first six months of the year. New year’s habits, however, are a structured…
Read MoreIn business, tradition is a terrible reason to do something. “That’s the way we’ve always done it” is not an effective evaluation of strategy. And don’t even get me started on “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”. (To summarize my view on this: always consider fixing it, there might be a better way to…
Read MoreContrary to many headlines and Facebook posts: networking is neither dead nor useless. It probably is over-used and badly used. But it still remains an essential tool for business growth. I recently did a series of Consultant Corner videos about how to prepare and follow up for networking and meetings. Here I look at that…
Read MoreIt is a pleasure to be once again quoted in the CEO Nation blog: Rescue a CEO. See the article 20 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Determine and Set Their Goals, and check out response number 16.
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