It's the beginning of March, and we all know what March is good for !
-March also measures my birthday-actually tomorrow-at which time, I will once again defy time and inch back a year or two.
There's no better a time of year to make these self-assessments of yourself and your work than now-in March-right at the point of measuring yourself against what you planned to during this quarter!
2. Send a note to the Team naming the date to get together during the first week of April for a one-day planning session aimed directly at Q2 only-at which time you and the team will do a giant refresh.
3. Quite simply Q2 is the most important quarter in any year. I don't care if you're a manager at a software or a food company, a not-for-profit, or you're one semester deep into a two semester university program, I know from long experience in a wide variety of industries that the results of Q2 will mark the pace and the success of your work for the rest of the year.
I don't think that you need any help in rewriting your business plan, but if you do, you can click here and read our ebook on Writing the Winning Business Plan, which is into its 10th plus year edition, and has now been adopted by MIT as a textbook for early stage businesses. And, of course, at any time just connect directly with me or George (george@derbymanagement.com) if you want to set up a Whiteboarding Session.
The weather does look pretty good, and it's already feeling warmer than an hour ago!
I'm off to get a breakfast sandwich up the road a piece at the Winhall General Store on my way to the hill.
Spring's comin' ...thankfully!
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