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November 24, 2011

Why chasing tactics can prevent progress to your business plan goals

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Why chasing tactics can prevent progress to your business plan goals.

Chasing stuff is fun. It’s non-threatening. It provides here-and-now gratification. It’s organizational comfort food

Go fish. Pick a card. Follow the instructions. Where does it lead? Who knows until you pick another card.

Many organizations function like this. Tactics rule. Immediate opportunities dominate how time is consumed.

Performance is often measured by how many things a person has on the go; the length of their to-do list.

Tactical driven activity, unfortunately, sometimes produces little value because it is often not consistent with the business plan of the organization

And activity with little or no connection to its strategic intent consumes copious amounts of time and energy.

You never know how much progress you’re making.

Get your strategic thinking straight before you give chase to action.

Be sure you are focusing on what is absolutely necessary to do in order to deliver your strategy.

If you can’t define precisely how your actions contribute to the strategy STOP!

Pick a card that puts you on the right path and follow it.

Cheers,
Roy
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• Posted 11.24.11 at 10:28 am by Roy Osing
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