Too many people (personally) and businesses let their future be determined by their circumstances; they lack intentionality.

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The Big Rocks

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A big topic we can only refer to briefly

The limit (cap) on your business is your leadership. You need to grow with the business (or does its growth follow your growth?).

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Leadership

69 kB

A simplistic/illustrative view

Are you operating at a C/D level or an A/B level?, where A is a high performing leader, C an average leader, in terms of effectiveness

A Level leaders operate a percentage of their time in Q4, C and D almost only in Q1.

The percentage of the time you should spend in Q4 depends on your role. CEO's over 30% in Q4?

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Quartiles of Leadership

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The One Year Business Plan

Is about:

• Maintaining your current business model (status quo); and
• Doing what you are doing better.

The one year plan should be a by-product of your three/five year plan: Includes "investments" moving you towards your three/five your plan (the strategic drivers).

The Three/Five Year Business Plan

Is about:

• Future proofing your business;
• Defining a new business model or revisioning/refreshing your existing;
• Defining/Creating what will be;
• Reflecting market and industry changes;
• Building competency and capacity for this new business model;
• Setting some BHAG (big hairy achievable goals) that will get you there - strategic change drivers. Start with the most important ones;
• A more flexible plan that is regularly checked and tweaked.

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The Business Plan

80 kB

All decisions against, owned by all staff

Worksheet

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Strategic Framework

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