Creating A Strategy For Success
Creating A Strategy For Success.
How to pick a plan.
The Leadership Academy program that I present has now been running for more than 10 years. A lot of the material was written before it started, although there have been some additional concepts added over the last decade. When you present any body of work that is over 10 years old, there’s a good likelihood that you will not remember everything that’s in it.
Recently, I was presenting The Leadership Academy once again when I noticed that one of the original lessons jumped out at me. It had been in there the entire length that the program has been offered, yet I didn’t realize the significance of it before.
The lesson was taken from a military leader who said that in every battle circumstance, there are two plans: A plan that won’t work and a plan that might work. The leader’s job is to take a plan that might work and make sure that it does work.
As I was preparing to present this lesson, I finally realized the brilliance of this statement. So often, business owners will waste all of their energy and time trying to make a plan that will work, work. Instead, they should be taking a plan that might work and figuring out a way to make sure that it will work. Have you been doing this in your business?
There are very few problems in life that cannot be solved. If you cannot solve a problem on your own, you can seek out the wisdom of a more experienced business associate in your field or a business coach. You can delve into books on the topic. You can research what other experts have to say on the Internet. There is no shortage of resources for a resourceful person who is serious about solving a problem. Learn to be open to the possibilities of what might work and you just might end up being the person other business owners turn to in order to help solve their problems.
“Plans are nothing; planning is everything.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower
(This excerpt is taken from my 5-part series entitled The Leadership Academy.) I encourage you to click here to register for The Leadership Academy program which will be held on five consecutive Tuesday mornings, on October 4, October 11, October 18, October 25, and November 1, 2022 from 9 AM to 12 noon Eastern Standard Time. This program will be presented partially in person at the Comfort Suites in Manheim, PA (for classes 1, 3, and 5) and on Zoom for the other classes.
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