Larry Broughton's Five Strategies

Retail store or not, I am sure that “a good plan violently executed today is better than a perfect plan next week” (Patton) is something that most businesses live by when talking about operations. I also think that this is something everyone should think about whether it is in their personal life or work life as it fits into both. I say personal life because if one has a plan to do something or get something done would they really wait for their plan to be perfect and put it off until later? The answer is usually that most people would not put it off because we do not know what interruptions tomorrow may bring. With that being said I will get back to discussing my opinion of this quote pertaining to the business world.

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These strategies are: 1. Remove negative chatter from your life and mind, 2. Focus on your strengths, 3. Take rapid action, because action is power, 4. Expect and embrace failure, and 5. Never give up. (Yoogozi). In my opinion every one of these strategies are true as I will explain my reasoning. The first step of removing negative chatter from one’s life and mind will help a person or business become successful as they will be focusing on the positive. This way one can accomplish more in their day with a positive attitude rather than a negative one. Second for a business to be successful leaders and employees have to focus on their strengths. Knowing one’s strengths and weaknesses will let them focus on their strengths in order to succeed in the workplace. Which having successful leaders and employees, it will then strengthen the company as a whole. Larry says to take rapid action and in my opinion this is because if one does not take rapid action this will usually delay projects being completed in a timely fashion or even over looked. He says expect and embrace failure as everyone makes mistakes at some point in their life. We should learn from our mistakes so we know what not to do in the future. Therefore, acknowledging our mistakes and wisely correcting them will allow us to learn valuable lessons along with what to do and what not to do in order to create success. Sir Winston Churchill was quoted saying, “ Success is the ability to move from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.” (Yoogozi). Churchill is basically saying that no matter what have the strength to move on from your mistakes and never give up. These steps are not only pertaining to life, but also pertaining to the assignment quote from Pattan because these are steps to strongly consider in every plan that is made in the business