Sign up for my newsletter Strategy Made Simple to learn tools to drive revenue, engagement, and impact. To your strategic success!
What's Your Telos?
What's Inside...
1. The Dark Ages Happy New Year! I hope each of you had a restful holiday & feel rejuvenated for the year ahead. I appreciated time away to disconnect and reset. As cadets at the Air Force Academy, we called the period after the holidays - the Dark Ages. Less sun, cold days, and just a big of a slog… But I also love the New Year. A time to reflect & adapt. It’s a fresh start. Here’s one exercise I do at least once a year both personally & professionally... START. STOP. CONTINUE.
What does this look like for your business? 2. What Do You Want? Aristotle wove the concept of telos throughout his life, teachings, and philosophy. He posited that everything has a telos, or end, goal, or purpose. You can say that the telos of a plane is to fly, just as a book is to be read. Philosopher James K.A. Smith takes it a step further saying, “…our telos is what we want, what we long for, what we crave. It is less an ideal that we have ideas about and more a vision of "the good life" that we desire.” Consider using these “Dark Ages” to start at the end:
Maybe you want to travel more, start a side hustle, take some time off, or build a company from the ground up and sell it for a billion dollars. Whatever your telos, build your life & business around it. 3. Your 90-Day Plan It’s not just a New Year - it's the start of a new quarter. What do you want to accomplish by March 31, 2024? Your 90-Day plan should cascade from an overarching 2024 strategy – which aligns with your longer-term vision. Don't have one or all of those yet? Start here with this free resource to...
Invest the time today to create the future business you want. 4. Working Together in 2024
I am excited for the year ahead and wish you a joyous 2024. To your strategic success. ~Susan
Want to help a friend? Pass this on! Got this from a friend? Subscribe here. |
8116 Arlington Blvd, Suite 242, Falls Church, Va 22042 |
Hi! I make Strategy Simple.
Sign up for my newsletter Strategy Made Simple to learn tools to drive revenue, engagement, and impact. To your strategic success!
What's Inside... 8 Strategies to Stay Secure Schedule Your Fall Retreat Ways to Work Together 1. 8 Strategies to Stay Secure Cybersecurity, sigh. Yet another thing to add to our plates as entrepreneurs & business owners. As if HR, operations, technology, marketing, sales, and finance weren’t enough. But, as the regional AWS outage last week made painfully obvious, we are all data companies. From email to payment systems, CRMs, websites, and more... So as we celebrate Cybersecurity Awareness...
What's Inside... Capture Real-Time Feedback Schedule Your Fall Retreat Ways to Work Together 1. Capture Real-Time Feedback Do I enjoy rising each day at o'dark thirty? NO. Do I love completing my workouts before breakfast? YES. I know that if I don't prioritize workouts they likely won't happen. Even with the best of intentions. And I know that a post-workout dashboard will hold me accountable. There's no hiding from the numbers... The real-time feedback is there - distance, time, avg pace,...
What's Inside... Create Dynamic Dashboards Schedule Your Fall Retreat Ways to Work Together 1. Create Dynamic Dashboards How did we do this year? What's still needed? As we usher in fall & the start of Q4, hopefully these answers are clear. If you aren't reviewing a Dynamic Dashboard - at least quarterly - invest the time now to create a STRUCTURED & VISUAL view of your business. Dynamic Dashboards help your company: Track progress: What gets measured gets done. It's important to set clear...