Tag: prepare

  • Start: Growth Idea #732

    As we enter into the final month of the year, we may be thinking about how to finish off 2025. Let me give you another idea – what if we start thinking about how we’ve grown this year, what we’ve learned, and start planning for an even better year next year? Almost always when we…

  • Preparation: Leadership Idea #43

    Preparation – how often have you skipped this because you didn’t plan enough time? Too often leaders think they already know everything and don’t need to prepare. Recently I heard a world-famous motivational speaker say he spends hours preparing for a speech, even one he’s given many times before. Why? Because the more you prepare,…

  • Contingency: Leadership Idea #40

    We’d all like things to go perfectly smoothly wouldn’t we, but – it seldom does. So what’s the plan when a colleague doesn’t show up, a task isn’t completed on time or correctly? What if our personal plans don’t work out, and we lose our jobs or our investments have a negative payback? Do we…