Management

 

Business Planning Procrastination Checklist

 

It is a proven fact that more than 60 percent of small firms do little or no planning.  It is not surprising that the vast majority of these firms end up failing.  The following ‘reasons’ are often given for not planning.  How many do you agree with?  Please indicate.

• I don’t have the time to do any planning.
• I’m too busy working on today to be bothered about tomorrow.
• I’m not into conceptual thinking.
• I just can’t get started.
• I don’t have the specialised know-how to do any planning.
• I don’t want to have to trust others with my business ideas and secrets.
• I need to get immediate results and feedback from whatever I do.
• It’s pointless to plan ahead when things are changing so fast.
• Planning costs too much.
• I can’t handle  uncertainty.
• I’m too close to the action to see things clearly and objectively.
• Every plan is out of date (and therefore useless) before it’s even finished.
• I can’t understand all the jargon used in planning.
• Planning is only for big business.

If you answered yes to any of these, please send us an email for a free  one hour consultation. In future issues, we will comment on each of these ‘reasons’ in greater depth and what to do.