Thought Tweet #625 Know what you know, see what you don't know: then, learn about making your business grow.

The Thinking Behind The Tweet

There's an old saying, "What you don't know cannot hurt you."

...not a good idea to apply that to business

In business, 2 functions reign over all others. They are: Strategic Planning and Risk Management.

At the heart of Risk Management:

• discovering how to uncover & see what you don't know - being present & checking reality
• anticipating situations that contain risk and considering & planning for them before they happen

Thought Tweet #479 Planning is not a cookie-cutter process; planning must blend strategic thinking with strategic intuition.

The Thinking Behind The Tweet

In his 2007 book 'Strategic Intuition', William Duggan says his pilot course on strategic intuition begins with asking people to select the one statement, A or B, which best reflects how you think:

A: You achieve anything you want if you believe in yourself, set clear goals, and work hard.

B: You can achieve many things if you prepare for opportunity, see it, and act on it.

Boil down your business.

That's what Robert Collier did at Volume 5 of his 1926 classic, 'The SECRET of the Ages'. 

He stated, "Volumes have been written about personal efficiency, and general efficiency, and every other kind of efficiency in business."

Then he said,

 "But when boiled down, it all comes to this:

1. Know what you want.
2. Analyze the thing you've got to do to get it.
3. Plan your work ahead.
4. Do one thing at a time.
5. Finish that one thing and send it on its way before starting the next.
6. Once started, KEEP GOING!"