Idea 48: Time for reflective thinking
Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come more effective action.
Peter Drucker
A plan gives you something to work on, but it is only half the battle. The other half is to implement it. ‘Plans are only good intentions,’ Peter Drucker once told me, ‘unless they degenerate into hard work.’
It is unlikely that everything will go according to plan. You may well have on your hands what the British Army calls a ‘limited success’. Time for some reflective thinking.
Look in particular at any objectives you failed to achieve in the period under review. What went wrong? There are four possible causes listed in the table. But avoid blaming external circumstances too much: it can ...
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