Business Planning for Success with Michael Lennington

<p><strong>Topics covered and questions you’ll uncover during this episode:</strong></p><ul><li>The 12 Week Year is about training your consciousness to be aware of how longer term goals are achieved via short term planning</li><li>The three guiding principles at play are Accountability, Commitment, and Greatness in the Moment</li><li>The five core principles discussed are Vision, Planning, Process Control, Keeping Score, and Using Time Wisely</li><li>Why time is our most valuable resource, and how we view time impacts how successful we are in achieving our goals</li><li>What periodization is, and what it has to do with successful business planning</li><li>What the difference is between quarterly planning and 12-week planning</li><li>How annualized thinking creates a lack of urgency, which ultimately leads to a lack of productivity</li><li>Why success and failure should be measured on a daily basis as an indicator of whether you're on track to achieve bigger goals</li><li>Why you need to assess where you are today, where you want to be in the future, and identify the gaps in planning that are preventing you from getting there</li><li>If your vision doesn't make you uncomfortable, your aspirations aren't great enough</li><li>You need to stick to a process, but be willing to alter that process in order to make progress</li><li>What lead indicators and lag indicators are, and how they fit into your plan for success</li><li>Why planning—not time management—is the route cause of failure to meet goals</li><li>Why reviewing plans after they've been executed is helpful for future planning</li><li>Leaders want to hold others accountable but they can't; only individuals can truly hold themselves accountable for the things they choose to do</li><li>Accountability is the foundational principle to high performance (i.e. taking personal ownership of goals is the first step in achieving them)</li><li>When you choose what you're doing, you're in complete control of the situation—so choose appropriately in order to work towards y