Planning Your Next Five Moves

The future is filled with so many options.

From each mountain peak, you have the ability to scan to see your next objectives. However, in between, is a journey filled with unchartered valleys, glaciers, false summits, and freezing temperatures. Knowing how to get to your next destination, can be the difference between success and failure. This is why it is important to master the art of strategy.

If you haven’t read it already, I highly recommend,?Your Next Five Moves: Master the Art of Business Strategy, by?Patrick Bet-David.

Every employee within a company should know where you are heading next. And they should know how they are going to get there. Simply put, this is strategy. Everyone should not only know what we are working on now, but we also should know what are the next big milestones that need to be completed to reach your destination.

1. Master Knowing Yourself – Looking in the future; where you want to be
2. Master the Ability to Reason – Use Data; not just emotion
3. Master building the right team - We use Gallup Clifton Strengths to identity what talents that we need in our future to succeed
4. Master strategy to scale – Can you run your biz without you there? The great CEOs learn to fill in the missing pieces, and this adds value to your biz if you want to sell it in the future.
5. Master power plays – Take calculated risks using the Pareto Principle or the 80/20 rule. We have a tool to identify which value drivers will create the most value BEFORE you start working on it.

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