Ready! Aim! Fire!
In business, is it "Ready! Aim! Fire!" or, "Fire! Ready! Aim!", or, maybe even, "Fire! Aim! Ready!"?
You don't have to plan what you are going to do tomorrow. You already know what you are going to do.
What if, on reflection, you realized that most of your results tomorrow are going to come from just twenty percent of what you already have scheduled? Would you consider dropping some of your action items and focusing on the most important - the most productive - things?
This leads to some interesting topics:
- How do I choose which things to focus on tomorrow?
- How do I choose which things to do next week?
- How do I choose which things to do next month ...or next year?
Soon, you realize you're not planning to do all the work. Now we have more questions:
- How do you involve a team in what you are doing?
- How does your team decide, individually and as a team, what they are going to do?
- How do you make sure they actually do what they decide to do, especially individually?
- How do you measure results?
- Maybe even more basically, how do you pick a team?
Now for some maybe even more interesting questions:
- What about your suppliers? What do they think of what you are doing?
- What about your customers?
- ...your employees, especially those on the line who don't have the time - or, maybe - the inclination, or the right, to say something?
It's funny how a simple question, "What are you going to do tomorrow?" leads to all sorts of other questions that demand answers. The answers don't have to take a lot of time or expense to generate. You just need them. Now. Or how will you really know what to do tomorrow?