Getting tied up in day to day business often absorbs all of an Owner/CEO’s time and leaves little time for planning along with the fun side of business.  The solution to planning is planning.  One of my pet peeves with business managers is when they require their associates to plan their work – yet as managers, they do not lead by example and fail to plan their own work.

Wow, what a problem and what hypocrisy!  How can we lead effectively when we fail to lead by example?

Last month we discussed the company “Vision” and why many Owners/CEO’s do not plan what and where they want the business to be in the future.

Among the reasons we discussed are:

• They do not know how to plan
• They cannot articulate their vision,
• They believe planning is just too much work
• They do not take the time to plan

The reason they “do not take the time” is because they do not “make time” by scheduling time in their daily, weekly or monthly calendars.  If we do not plan to do something it does not get done – plain and simple.

While this is fundamental, it is not so fundamental in practice because we all think what we are doing during any given place or time is more important than “that planning stuff!”

So which side are you on; “Are you a planner or a gambler?”

We are having great success coaching and implementing these methods and skills and our clients love it!