Get Smart!: How to Think and Act Like the Most Successful and Highest-Paid People in Every Field
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| Unleash Your Inner Powers The regular practice of solitude requires slow thinking. It requires that you stop all of the business and activity around you and just go into the silence with yourself fora few minutes. The best news is that the more you practice solitude, the faster, better, and more comprehensive will be the answers and ideas that you get from each period. In corporate strategic planning, where the consequences can be significant, taking the time to back off, slowdown, and think through the critical issues can be the action that determines the successor failure of the business. There is a rule in time management that says, Every minute spent in planning saves ten minutes in execution.” Whenever you see a successful enterprise, you see a successful strategy inaction. You seethe result of an extended process of slow and careful thinking. Use the GOSPA Thinking Model To help yourself and others to slowdown and think with greater precision, use the GOSPA model on a regular basis. The acronym GOSPA stands for “Goals, Objectives, Strategies, Priorities, and Actions.” Goals: The specific, measurable, time-bounded results you want to achieve over the longer term in your business—your targets for sales, profitability, growth, share price, and quality rankings. Objectives: The interim goals that you will have to achieve to accomplish your major goals. Imagine that your goals exist at the top of the ladder—your long-term aims—and your objectives are the rungs of the ladder that you must climb to achieve them. Strategies: The various ways that you could accomplish each objective. For example, in business, one of your objectives will be to achieve a certain level of sales. You can use a variety of different strategies to achieve your sales objectives. Priorities: Those activities that are more important than others in achieving your goals and objectives. Apply the 80/20 rule to everything. What are the top 20 percent of actions that you can take that can account for percent of your results? Actions: What specific, measurable, time-bounded activities must you take to implement your strategies, achieve your objectives, and accomplish your goals? This method of thinking, and carefully considering each action you must take, dramatically improves your decision-making abilities. It forces you to use both long-term thinking and slow thinking together. Download 0.86 Mb. Share with your friends:
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