What Projects Will You Still Be Working on Two Years from Now?
I’ve been reading It's Not What You Say...It's What You Do by Lauraence Haughton. It’s a great book. Laurence talks about a study that studied 160 businesses. They studied businesses that went zooming ahead, businesses that were sinking and businesses tht were just marking place. They checked to see if there were any business processes being used and what the common denominator was between the successful businesses.
It turns out that it didn’t matter if a business was using a TQM, Sigma 6, ISO 6000, or CRM business model. The only thing that made a difference was the follow through of the business. They determined that fully 50% of the business initiatives that were started were abandoned within 2 years. 50%! Half of the fabulous projects that are started with great fanfare and effort are just abandoned on the side of the road. Hmmm……
It makes me think about the projects that I’m working on, what I want to do now and what I still want to be doing two years from now. There’s a lot of good stuff in the book. Joe Bob says check it out.
Thanks for the vote of confidence.
There are serveral pdf files available at my website and a link to watch "The Art of Follow Through." It's free (thanks Microsoft).
