Business Strategy

On Wednesday, I talked a little bit about manifesting your vision and yesterday a little about taking action.

Things get a little more interesting when you start trying to manifest your vision and at the same time, align your business team with that vision.

Sure you can just ram your vision down their throats but you have a better chance of success if you can get them behind your vision and an even better chance of success if their career and/or financial objectives align with your vision.

The thing is, strategic goals are easily lost in the day to day work of keeping clients […]

Vision does not create results.

Goals and planning do not create results.

Only action creates results.

Any action towards your goals and vision is better than all the planning in the world and no action.

How do you know your detailed plan is right? If you are heading down a new path planning out all the details in advance is treacherous. Things change and you spend all your time adapting your plan rather than taking action.

So have a vision, do "enough" planning and start taking action towards your goals. Avoid analysis paralysis. Be open to different paths along the way.

After all, actions speak louder […]

Whether you have a personal dream or a business vision, unless you do something to manifest that vision in the real world, it will not materialize.

At its core, the process is simple:

1. Write out your long range vision,
2. Determine intermediate and short-term goals (or projects) that will bring you closer to that vision,
3. Take action and implement steps that will help you reach your goals.

The bigger the vision, the more nebulous the path to accomplishing it may be. But no matter what size your dream/vision is, you need to take concrete steps to make it happen.

You need to keep the long range […]

Al Dhalla and I (Doug Wagner) went to another ProCoach Success Systems seminar put on by Andrew Barber-Starkey. Andrew is based out of Vancouver and was in town for this seminar and other ProCoach activities.

My intuition was telling me I should attend, but I’ll get to that part later.

Their System

Seeing a second presentation by Andrew, talking to some of the people in the room who are (or were) working with him and reviewing some of his materials that he provided as part of the seminar helped me form a stronger opinion about ProCoach.

My feeling so far is that he has developed […]

On Sunday night I watched two contestants get eliminated from the Amazing Race. It came down to the fact that one of the team members drank so much liquid she had to stop for a bathroom break on the final leg to the pit stop. Not a good way to go down.

This applies to business strategy as well. It is really easy to get caught up in the task at hand and lose sight of the big goals… causing you to lose everything.

On the show, one team member had to eat a bunch of deep fried creatures. In this case, […]