Want to learn how to screw up a good business?  There are a few variations on the theme.  Here they are.

Stop planning. 

Or get behind on your plan and then ignore it.

Or accomplish your plan and don’t plan again.

Or let your plan become obsolete.

My Executive Team allowed this to happen.  That’s not fair.  The company has my name on it.  I allowed this to happen. 

As we realized what was happening, each of us started to recognize it and communicate it to one another.  What were the symptoms?

We stopped having our weekly Executive sessions.  We let project deadlines pass.  We didn’t set new project deadlines.  We were all feeling complacent. 

It is spring.  There are flourishes of activity.  Kids are graduating and moving or looking for colleges.  Vacations are being planned.  The point is that there is a lot to distract us.  Even though we get distracted.  Never stop planning.  Even if the planning simply takes the form of putting certain projects on hold until a certain future date.  Set that future date and on that date either, re-start the project if you have not already done so.  Kill the project if it has become irrelevant or pick another date certain to address it.

This of course implies that you at some point were working from a plan.  Business planning is our company’s strength.  That his leading our Clients to plan effectively, measure results against the plan, and accomplish the plan.  We are exceptionally good at it. 

It is our own planning that I/we need to keep our eyes on. 

Choose Success!