The Basic Basics: Have a GOAL.
Kids’ stuff, right? Put the ball in the hole. Simple.
Okay, try these:
- What’s your company’s #1 goal for this year? For 2009? For ever?
- What are your career goals? What do they imply for how you spend the next six months?
Not the boilerplate of mission statements. (”We strive to provide the most comprehensive solutions . . .”) Not the ambiguities that would satisfy your high-school counselor. (”I like working with people and with words . . .”)
I mean the real, scary, deep-dish, CLEAR goals that will make a difference.
You don’t have to tell me. Ideas like this can be dangerous when released in the wild. But you’d better be able to tell yourself.
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Related entries:
- The Basic Basics: “It’s my fault.”
- The Basic Basics: Run to the Point of Contact.
- The Basic Basics: Solve someone’s problem.
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When creating goals, choose ones that are difficult, yet not impossible. Sure you could come up with a goal that is cut costs by 10%. You know this can be done fairly easy and so it’s obtainable. Now consider setting a goal of cutting costs by by 25%. Maybe you don’t reach that. Maybe you only get 21%. Look at the difference: even though you achieved one goal, it was easy and the results of perusing the difficult goal brought about much better results!
you always manage to hit the nail directly on the head. those are indeed the questions to be answered.
Thanks for the kind words, Jeanne.
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