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Become Your Own CEO
This section will teach you how to prepare a personal strategic plan, using many of the same techniques, approaches and steps companies use to create their corporate strategic plan. You will learn the process isn’t difficult. It simply requires introspection, thought and time.
Why Prepare a Personal Strategic Plan?
If you’re struggling to achieve your dreams, or perhaps you’re struggling to even define them, then strategic planning will help you define where you want to go and how to get there. If you’ve read any self help books or listened to any self help speakers, what they all share in common is that they all say that you need a plan. Without a plan, who knows what you’re chasing or what you’re trying to accomplish. Without a plan, you may hit a target but you won’t know if you hit the right one. So strategic planning will help you define your purpose and help you achieve it.
What Can You Learn from Corporate Strategic Plans?
I started this book discussing corporate strategic planning and titled it Become Your Own CEO, because how companies develop and benefit from strategic plans translates into how you can develop and benefit from strategic plans. There is no secret formula or magic bullet when it comes to strategic planning. You decide what you want to do, create a plan to do it and then you do it. Companies do it all the time and you can too.
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SECTION 03 PERSONAL STRATEGIC PLANNING