Be Strategic
It is so easy to be busy in our jobs. You know, doing email, returning phone calls, and having meetings. Some days on my commute home I wonder what happened during the day. Busy does not equate to progress and most definitely isn’t strategic. What does it mean to ‘be strategic’? Why is this important to making positive progress? Is strategic planning still a relevant business function in this ever fast changing world? My wife and I visited Greece this past year and saw amazing examples of architecture and focused energy in creating complex structures and infrastructure. When you think of the resources they had at their disposal, it seems impossible that they could have done the things they did 1000’s of years ago. Take the Isthmian Canal for example. It was created to replace the more difficult method of rolling ships across land on logs. But, it took incredible focus and resources to complete. It was a very strategic goal designed to make far faster and easier passage fro