Plan, think, Act !

I know, it seems a jargon ! Although, I have seen people failing down in personal, profissional and academic tasks or just spending more than the necessary time doing something without to think about the reasons of the failures.

In order to improve the overcomes we should have a "natural stratetic thinking" . Companies such as Sainsbury's emphasize in trainning sections for all employees, even for the temporary workers, one single orientation: " THINK, PLAN, THINK, ACT ! It seems really simple, but the majority of people do not do it and they spend company's time and money reducing productivity and profits.

The steps for thinking strategically are:

- To analyse the current situation.

- To think and to set up objectives.

- To establish the necessary actions to be adopted in order to achieve the objectives.

- To rethink about the actions and assessing possible alternative for improving the outcomes and to reduce timming.

- Plan ! What means to determine When, Where, Why, What, Who and How to do the tasks.

- Act !

The most successful people are naturally Strategists ! Think about it ! You can apply this concept in the most basic daily tasks, for instance: cooking or shopping ! You can practice this during all the time and to improve your personal finance, your job productivity and efficiency or just earn more time to have some fun !

If you are a leader in your company I would suggest to you paying more attention in your team and ask yourself: Does my team is thinking strategically ? Do are we doing our best ? Do are we saving time and efforts ? What should we be doing better or differently ?

If you have some interest in this subject, please let me know...

Cheers !

Fabio Oliveira