Why You Need to Start Planning for Next Year Right Now
Morgan DeBaun
CEO & Board Director – Angel Investor | Speaker & Author | Serial Entrepreneur Recognized as an Expert in Diverse Consumer Advertising
If you’re anything like me, you're probably heads down evaluating success from the first half of the year: make adjustments in strategy, implementing new processes and adjusting team structures. You're doing what you do best... operating!
But I’m here to let you in on a little growth secret I have been using for years to accelerate my growth:
I spend 20-30% of my time in the summer setting and executing towards my goals for next year.
Why? Because without a vision of the next 12-18 mths, I might default to a routine of being comfortable at my current size of business and success. Staying in the weeds can be comfortable. I like the weeds!
But here’s the issue… If I don’t push myself to grow, our team, company and revenue never will either. Innovation will slow down, raises for my employees won’t happen, ideas that have been in the backlog will continue to collect dust.
When I signed up to be an entrepreneur, I didn’t sign up for comfort or for maintaining a day to day routine. ...
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5 年Dope perspective with a great framework at the end. Thanks for sharing!
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5 年Morgan DeBaun?I loved this article! I couldn't agree more with your thoughts. As a small business owner, I have gotten into the habit of spending more time strategically networking and writing out my 2-year company goals. I always ask myself if what I am doing today will help me get to where I want to be tomorrow.?
Project manager| Translating dreams into reality.
5 年As a project manager I can really get behind this. Requirements planning is crucial. Ironically, my husband is an entrepreneur and this helps me see a bit more of what he goes through.
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5 年Morgan DeBaun thank for networking. View my profile and connect as so inspired! All things Tech equals Joe Mohen
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5 年Brilliant! It's always great to plan and dedicate that TIME!