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Now Is The Time To Plan For 2020.

Rich Gee Group

Set New Goals. Use the SMART method to ensure success for each goal: Specific: Is the goal clearly written? Achievable: Is it a realistic goal? Lock-In Your Goals With Deadlines. Take each of your goals and do three things: a. Use a GANTT chart if needed. Clients/Customers: 20-40% increase?

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075: Conquer the Entrepreneur’s Kryptonite: Simple Strategic Planning | with James Woosley

Engaging Leader

Rather than the traditional approach of a business plan or a detailed GANTT chart, James Woosley provides a streamlined approach that is more practical and action-oriented. Others get bogged down in an overly-detailed planning process, and the plan never gets executed. The antidote for this kryptonite is simple strategic planning.

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Great Quotes: Making Ideas Happen by Scott Belsky

QAspire

Elaborate Gantt charts and byzantine procedures plague bureaucracies large and small. However, these tendencies become destructive as soon as we begin to pursue long-term goals or attempt something extraordinary”. - – - – -. The term ’project management’ makes most creative people cringe.

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Managing a Remote Team: 12 Best Practices for Better Productivity

Strategy Driven

While maintaining protocols is important to achieve business goals, allowing remote workers to utilize methods and tools they have already proven to work is good practice. Managing a remote workforce will require application of a diverse set of techniques and mediums to get a task accomplished. Use cloud-based tools.

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Adding Value: A Gentle Reminder

QAspire

Track value delivered, when you tracked through the Gantt Chart? Bonus : If you are a project manager, reading “ 5 Goals Every Project Manager Should Aspire to Achieve ” at CIO.com by Jason Westland would help. But did you keep that in perspective constantly while executing? Make stakeholder’s world a bit better in any way?

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Your Strategy Has to Be Flexible — But So Does Your Execution

Harvard Business Review

Action plans and Gantt charts can span many pages in pursuit of precision and concreteness. In the worst case, busyness can become an implicit goal or cultural norm, and the original strategic intent can be lost in a frenzy of detail and activity. But the worst way to achieve a goal can sometimes be to pursue it directly.