{"id":2285,"date":"2014-02-25T20:03:29","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T01:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/?p=2285"},"modified":"2014-02-24T08:07:33","modified_gmt":"2014-02-24T13:07:33","slug":"plan-like-a-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/2014\/02\/25\/plan-like-a-general\/","title":{"rendered":"Plan Like a General"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/PDCA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2265\" alt=\"PDCA\" src=\"http:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/PDCA-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/PDCA-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/PDCA.jpg 248w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>How is it that some companies are successfully growing faster than others in the same industry?\u00a0 Fast Track companies handle new projects or target markets like a general might plan a battle.\u00a0 But before you declare you\u2019re a commanding officer, realize that the secret is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Plan<\/li>\n<li>Brief<\/li>\n<li>Execute<\/li>\n<li>Debrief<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Having a complete \u201cbeginning to ending\u201d plan will help take the hesitation out of new projects. This cycle is explained the the book F<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B003YCOP7A\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B003YCOP7A&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=changinglanes.biz-20\">lawless Execution by James D Murphy<\/a> of the US Navy fighter Pilots and his business Afterburner.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Often businesses do the plan for a new project, product or service, but making sure everyone is briefed on the plan and how it will be executed is left to guess work.\u00a0 Or maybe the brief happens but the execution is only explained to &#8220;those involved&#8221;.\u00a0 Getting the entire company behind and involved is key to success, but even with plan &#8211;&gt; brief &#8211;&gt; execute some projects will go array or produce less than stellar results.<\/p>\n<p>When things don&#8217;t produce the results you want, that is where defrief comes in to play &#8211; an honest conversation about what worked and what didn&#8217;t AND most important will changes make it successful in the future.\u00a0 This is a good read and it leads me right back to LEAN and PDCA or Plan-Do-Check-Act.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/PDCA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2265\" alt=\"PDCA\" src=\"http:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/PDCA-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/PDCA-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/PDCA.jpg 248w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s your best way to get the results you want?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How is it that some companies are successfully growing faster than others in the same industry?\u00a0 Fast Track companies handle new projects or target markets like a general might plan a battle.\u00a0 But before you declare you\u2019re a commanding officer, realize that the secret is: Plan Brief Execute Debrief Having a complete \u201cbeginning to ending\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-improvement","category-planning-for-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2285"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2631,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285\/revisions\/2631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}