The Key to Building a Strategy that Works

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On Sunday my wife and I visited the farmer on whose land our converted barn and home resides. The lambing season has started and we wanted to see how things were going. Thankfully things were going well and half of his ewes had lambs skipping, feeding and sleeping with them in the barns.

This reminded me of how much of our lives revolve around cycles and never more so than farmers like Paul.

As I talked about in previous posts, like galaxies, planets and our lives, businesses also work in cycles and revolve around an annual cycle of setting goals and trying to achieve them.

But working to this annual cycle isn’t always best for a business and can in fact harm it. Continue reading →