No Goal!

All of us in Buffalo know that quote.
As much as that frustrated me, nothing is as frustrating as hearing people say:

“I don’t need to set goals to succeed.”

Here are my two favorite quotes on the subject:

“If you don’t know where you are going you may not get there”
Yogi Berra

“What is wrong?
I’m lost and I don’t know which of these two roads to take.
Where are you going?
I don’t know
Well either of those roads will take you there.”
The Cat, to Alice, while she was running around Wonderland

My take is that goals are crucial to the owner of a small business. Without them your whole team has no direction, no way to prioritize their time, no way to know which way to go every time they reach a fork in the road. The bane of most businesses is Lack of Execution – they have great ideas but have trouble implementing them.

You see the most important thing about goals is that they immediately produce Actions. Actions can then be prioritized and then someone can then be made accountable and with an easy follow up process you Execute.

Goals – Actions – Prioritization – Accountability = Execution

(for more click below to listen to my 12 minute Audio “Clarity, Vision and Goals”

http://www.box.net/files#/files/0/f/31291448/1/f_371147368


Rick Wallace
“Closing the gap between the your Dream and the Reality of owning a business”