Posts Tagged ‘sequence’

Sequence Part 2

Thursday, March 3rd, 2011

In my last blog (too long ago) I wrote about how “sequence is critical” and that a cart that is in front of the horse is hard to move.

An updated list of examples include:

Putting work before personal lifestyle

Putting strategy before tactics (endemic)

Putting “just do it” before planning

Putting product before market

Putting medium before message

Putting opportunity before criteria

Puttng achievement before balance

Putting money before people

Putting short term ahead of long term

Next week, I promise, I’ll recommence this series on the critical importance of sequence…

Sequence

Friday, December 17th, 2010

Sequence is critical. A cart that is in front of the horse is hard to move.

Other, more business focused mistakes include:

Putting work before personal lifestyle

Putting strategy before tactics (endemic)

Putting “just do it” before planning

Putting product before market

Putting medium before message

Putting opportunity before criteria

I’ll explain each in more detail over the coming weeks and months but for now it would probably be very good for the development of your strategic thinking if you print this out, grab yourself a drink (any variety will work fine) and try to figure out what the hell I am talking about.

Failure to get sequence right leads to a lot of people working really hard and not getting far, like the cart before the horse.