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Developing a
Strategic Plan
You set the direction
for the company by developing a strategic plan. A strategic plan that is
well conceived and implemented can energize the company to
the pinnacles of success
You develop a
strategic plan by creating a mission statement, establishing your goals and
business values, developing strategies to carry out your goals and values,
and then developing specific action plans to implement each of the
strategies you set forth. Finally you communicate
your plan to your staff,
and have them implement the
details of the plan.
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A plan will only be as successful as your true desire to implement it.
Without this true desire, it is essentially worthless.
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If you can carry forth your deepest aspirations, i.e. the deepest
spirit that enabled the plan at each point along the way, rather than
just the mere execution of the plan itself, you will vastly succeed.
Check at each point if you feel the deepest aspirations behind the plan.
Otherwise, abandon it, for it ill produce little. What you really wanted
is what really accomplishes.
Following the Inspiration of the Plan
-Excellent Planning gives Extraordinary Results when the mind moves
away from the planned details to its own inner Spirit which is
Inspiration.
-Be ready with a consummate plan. Do not rely on it.
Implement the plan trusting to the
true essence
and Spirit of the Plan, which is
inspiration. (MSS, slightly modified)
Strategic Plan Follows the
Process of Business Growth and Development
Building a strategic plan is essentially a process by which the company
grows and develops to higher levels of functioning, accomplishment,
success, and joy. A company is actually always going through this
process, whether unconsciously, or consciously as when it engages in a
strategic plan.
ARTICLE on the How to
Develop a Strategic Plan in Business
How High Should the
Company Aim to Improve Itself?
The company should enter at the maximum level where it is positively
organized, and do so with full intensity. By "positively organized" we
mean where the company has the full complement of skills, knowledge,
expertise, technology, energy, will, time, sales and marketing prowess,
financial stability, structure, job positions, levels of systemization,
etc. etc. This is the firm's level of efficiency. The company
should then start at the maximum possible area (given the above
constraints) where it can more efficiently function; and then, on the way
toward that achievement, aim at the peak of what can be accomplished in
the undertaking.
For example, one company wanted to take itself to a whole new extension of
its current work; but hadn't the skills, the infrastructure, the marketing
reach, etc. to reach this level. Still executives saw that it could
take what he was currently doing to a much higher level within the
constraints of his current efficiency and organization. When the firm took
the effort to provide the maximum level of services at his current level
of efficiency, work boomed. E.g. with the same effort the company was able
to perform the same services as before to a higher level audience directly
(without the intervention of other referral companies), enabling its
revenues and profits to quadruple. Life responded from all sides to his
effort to do the maximum possible at the firm's current level of
efficiency.
What will then succeed
for the firm is determined by its level of efficiency in life. The company's
level of efficiency is the plane of consciousness that it is currently
organized at. Life will suddenly and abundantly respond to an aspiration to
take the company to a higher level within the constraints of its current
efficiency and organization.
Of course, the firm can
raise that efficiency, and aspire for and achieve at an even higher level.
Still at each point the firm still must judge if it has all, or at
least most of those elements of that efficiency in place before the
firm risks placing all of its bets on something decidedly new.
As the company then
succeeds at a higher level at its current level of efficiency, the firm
should always aim for the highest achievement within that possibility of
products and services offered. That aspiration and will for the peak will
get the company to that peak.
If, when the firm sets
out on this journey, and it also sheds its negative propensities and values
related to the work, top management will see that they will acquire an
energy in their imagination which will in fact be the size of its
accomplishment later on. You will see that life has a way of
responding quickly and abundantly by building a bridge between what is
imagined and what is accomplished.
Insuring Success
Some of the keys to a very successful
outcome to your strategic plan are:
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Not biting off more than you can chew when developing your original
goals and objectives. Doing what can be done. I.e. not hoping to
accomplish something to broad and wide.
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Insuring that you have the resources, organizational prowess, finance,
etc. to enable the plan to work
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Being honest about the company's negative propensities, and overcoming
those areas that the company is currently weak, and including it in your
action to dos.
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Having real commitment to the plan. I.e. do your REALLY want to
do this. If not, there is little chance for success.
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A
complete buy in by others to the plan
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Staying focused on the plan and not drifting off into other areas
causing the plan to get diluted over time. This is very important!
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An
unfettered determination to carry out the plan, marked by
intensity and focused hard work.
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Implementing values down the greatest detail of work (i.e.
perfect execution of values)
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A
commitment by appropriate individuals to the start and finish dates of
your action to dos.
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