Protect against business failure by ensuring the quality and clarity of your business thinking beats your competitors.
Consider the following questions:
- What are your business objectives for the next 12 months?
- Will you recognise when you have achieved them?
- If you achieved them would it cause you a problem? Would it cause anyone else a problem? If yes, how will you deal with this?
- Which of your skills will be most useful in achieving your objectives?
- What resources excluding your skills do you have that will be most useful?
- Is there anyone that can help you to achieve the results you want?
- If there is how can they help specifically and how can you motivate them?
- If you were to sabotage achieving your objectives what might you do (e.g. procrastination) and how can you anticipate and prevent this?
- What is the first next step towards achieving your objectives?
- How will you monitor progress?
- If you follow these steps how confident are you that you will achieve your objectives?
If you put some time into considering the above questions and formulating a plan you will beat your competitors as they will be focused on the right issues.