What I’m learning from Strategy Maps‘ authors Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton is that people ought to figure out what they’re exceptionally good at, and focus on doing those things. Knowing makes it easy to discern quickly and with clarity the difference between “doing things right” and “doing the right things.”
A friend recently asked for advice on how to go about doing this big-picture, end-goal visualizing kind of thinking. I’m no expert, but I suggested this: write your obituary.
Author Steven Covey harps on a running theme in Seven Habits of Highly Effective People: start with the end in mind. Picture your funeral. Exact same idea.
We hear all about vision and mission and goal-setting, but without having desired “outcomes,” as Kaplan and Norton call them, crystallized in your head as you write, it’s impossible to chart routes to get there.
See? Business books are good for something, after all. –DK
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