What are your goals for your business?  What sales goals do you have?  What about profits? Have you put your goals in writing?
As I discussed in my post about commitment , active commitment is much more effective than passive. Research has shown that a commitment that is written and publicly stated is more likely to be taken seriously and worked on.
Making Goals a Reality. Some suggestions for making your business goals a reality:

Use the SMART principle to create your goals; make your goals Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, and Timely.
Get input in writing your goals. If you have a board of …read more

For those of you who need a little summary of what WE blogged about in January 2008, here is a month-end sum up of projectmanagement411. There are many excellent comments/points of view on these topics- check THEM out and add to the conversation! (The topics are arranged to be sung, with appropriate breathing- first three words very slow and the rest “rapid fire”):
We… wrote…. about….. living standards, innovation, carbon trading, collaboration…..(breath), strategy mapping, tech trends, role of commitment and preparation…..(breath), social security, business leaders, statesmen, project queues…..(breath), language barriers, PMOs, BI drivers, and swamp draining.
Just click on the topic and …read more

Recently a good friend told me that if you are not a man of your word that you can’t make, let alone keep, commitments. The corollary is that if you make a commitment you should keep it or risk degrading your “word”. A simple example is picking up a friend for work. You make the commitment but the night before you decide that you are not going to work the next day. You could justify not picking up your friend. But what would the impact be? What positive things could result from keeping your commitment? Your friend would upgrade their …read more

Commitment. It’s a word that creates more questions than answers because of the changes and distractions that follow commitments we make. I started this blog in October 2007 while working for a consulting firm specializing in project management software implementations. My rationale for the commitment was 1) it fit with my current position, 2) I wanted to learn about blogging and it’s potential for marketing and communication, plus 3) I like to write. I left the project management consulting firm soon after and had to make a decision. Do I stop blogging?
Stopping so soon after starting, although justifiable by most …read more