Summary: <a href="http://brianjpombo.com/path-over-plan-carly-fiorina/"></a><br> <br> <br> <a href="http://DreamBizChat.com">http://DreamBizChat.com</a><br> <br> <br> <br> Path over Plan.<br> <br> <br> <br> Hi, I’m Brian welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live. Coming to you live every day here from Grants Pass, Oregon. Here at the headquarters for BrianJPomo.com.<br> <br> <br> <br> Today I wanted to talk about this concept of the path over the plan.<br> <br> <br> <br> I first heard this termed in an interview with Carly Fiorina.<br> <br> <br> <br> Carly ran for Senate in California as a politician. Was a business person, made into a politician. She also ran for president. Still a number of things like that. I’m not here to get into politics or talk about whether I like her or not. It’s irrelevant.<br> <br> <br> <br> What I heard though, something that stopped me in my tracks and she talked about path over plan and said that a lot of times we get caught up with the plan and when it doesn’t go right, we forget where the next step is.<br> <br> <br> <br> This comes back to the kind of the three big things that I think business owners get confused about and it has to do with what are we talking about right now?<br> <br> <br> <br> Are we talking about tactics?<br> <br> <br> <br> Are we talking about strategies or are we talking about principles?<br> <br> <br> <br> One of the most common things you see is people getting caught up with the tactics.<br> <br> <br> <br> So her getting caught up with YouTube or getting caught up with this new product. It’s that tactic.<br> <br> <br> <br> It’s a temporarily exciting thing that we’re getting caught up in the action and the action really doesn’t have much meaning unless there’s a plan behind it, which is the strategy.<br> <br> <br> <br> The strategy, should proceed the tactic. If you’ve got a strategy behind the tactic, the tactic means more.<br> <br> <br> <br> It’s based off of something deeper, but there’s another level deeper than that is most of the time we don’t as business owners.<br> <br> <br> <br> If we are strategy focused then we get too overly focused on strategy and we haven’t spent enough time thinking about the principles that should proceed the strategy, the principles of the deeper thing.<br> <br> <br> <br> And so if you get too caught up with strategy……and this is coming from a business strategist, okay, my main areas and helping businesses to plan, hench, The Worthington Method that we’ve been discussing in previous videos, hits a lot of the concepts that I bring to you here have to do with their strategy base.<br> <br> <br> <br> Because most companies do not have any sense in long-term strategy.<br> <br> <br> <br> But that strategy has to be based on principles.<br> <br> <br> <br> It has to be based on something that means something to you that is taking you somewhere important.<br> <br> <br> <br> And those principals, they have to be true. If they’re not true, the whole thing falls apart.<br> <br> <br> <br> The tactics fall apart and everything falls apart, if the principles aren’t true, If the real clear in destination isn’t true, if everything about that is not true, then it’s like a formula and the whole formula falls apart.<br> <br> <br> <br> So here’s a couple pieces out of Carly’s book.<br> <br> <br> <br> I haven’t read it, but the book is, Find Your Way.<br> <br> <br> <br> So you can go and track that down. I haven’t gotten my hands on it yet, but this is where she actually has a section or a chapter on it and I found an excerpt and it’s called the path over the plan. And says that the dirty little secret of a destination mindset of livin...
