Comments on: Developing a Detailed Vision and Having it Become Reality http://mattinglot.com/blog/2006/07/12/developing-a-detailed-vision-and-having-it-become-reality/ Thoughts and Stories of an Entrepreneur on the Web Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:53:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Lindy http://mattinglot.com/blog/2006/07/12/developing-a-detailed-vision-and-having-it-become-reality/#comment-13917 Sat, 10 Mar 2007 01:02:08 +0000 http://mattinglot.com/blog/2006/07/12/developing-a-detailed-vision-and-having-it-become-reality/#comment-13917 Every business plan needs to start with a vision. Every plan, like every journey, needs a destination if you actually want to arrive somewhere in particular. Businesses, like people, benefit from some worthwhile purpose to pursue. How else do you know where you are relative to where you want to be? Specificity in the language also helps in reaching a desired destination. When you are going Somewhere, you can readily see when you are leaving the route that has any potential to get you there - even with detours. Driving aimlessly without knowing where you are or the way to where you want to be is usually called "lost". Every business plan needs to start with a vision.

Every plan, like every journey, needs a destination if you actually want to arrive somewhere in particular. Businesses, like people, benefit from some worthwhile purpose to pursue. How else do you know where you are relative to where you want to be?

Specificity in the language also helps in reaching a desired destination. When you are going Somewhere, you can readily see when you are leaving the route that has any potential to get you there - even with detours. Driving aimlessly without knowing where you are or the way to where you want to be is usually called “lost”.

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]]> by: Creating a Better Life http://mattinglot.com/blog/2006/07/12/developing-a-detailed-vision-and-having-it-become-reality/#comment-2253 Sun, 16 Jul 2006 13:39:41 +0000 http://mattinglot.com/blog/2006/07/12/developing-a-detailed-vision-and-having-it-become-reality/#comment-2253 <strong>The Personal Development Carnival - July 16, 2006...</strong> Welcome to the latest edition of the Personal Development Carnival! — Peter Kua presents What Do Others Think of You? posted at RadicalHop.com by Peter Kua. Victor Fam at Towards Better Life presents Jogging Once a Week Brian Carson presents 6 ... The Personal Development Carnival - July 16, 2006…

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]]> by: Matt Inglot http://mattinglot.com/blog/2006/07/12/developing-a-detailed-vision-and-having-it-become-reality/#comment-2000 Thu, 13 Jul 2006 10:23:33 +0000 http://mattinglot.com/blog/2006/07/12/developing-a-detailed-vision-and-having-it-become-reality/#comment-2000 Excellent question Yuri. Let's take it a step further out - can a vision act as a business plan? This is definitely partly true. My vision is the single biggest factor affecting my business decisions. It's always up to date, unlike any written plan. The mind also handles certain things better than words on a piece of paper, where much will get lost in the translation. However other things are best written down. I scribble a lot on paper and use techniques like mind mapping to help me visualize a situation and connect the dots towards a solution. It's a more solid visual, almost a snapshot in time of what's happening. You gain the ability to manipulate a lot of data, perform calculations, plot out markets, do competitive research, and much more great stuff that you can't do effectively in your head. So maybe a business plan is part mind (vision & perhaps a couple more processes) and part paper. Both have elements and store information that the other does not, and I can't imagine running a company without relying on both. Do you need a written plan for your website? That depends on the site and where you see it going. Be wary of formal plans - they are really just a summary of your planning and make frustrating templates for planning itself. If you don't need to show it to a banker, then a few pieces of paper and some coffee at a coffee shop may be what you need. Excellent question Yuri. Let’s take it a step further out - can a vision act as a business plan?

This is definitely partly true. My vision is the single biggest factor affecting my business decisions. It’s always up to date, unlike any written plan. The mind also handles certain things better than words on a piece of paper, where much will get lost in the translation.

However other things are best written down. I scribble a lot on paper and use techniques like mind mapping to help me visualize a situation and connect the dots towards a solution. It’s a more solid visual, almost a snapshot in time of what’s happening. You gain the ability to manipulate a lot of data, perform calculations, plot out markets, do competitive research, and much more great stuff that you can’t do effectively in your head.

So maybe a business plan is part mind (vision & perhaps a couple more processes) and part paper. Both have elements and store information that the other does not, and I can’t imagine running a company without relying on both.

Do you need a written plan for your website? That depends on the site and where you see it going. Be wary of formal plans - they are really just a summary of your planning and make frustrating templates for planning itself. If you don’t need to show it to a banker, then a few pieces of paper and some coffee at a coffee shop may be what you need.

]]> by: Yuri http://mattinglot.com/blog/2006/07/12/developing-a-detailed-vision-and-having-it-become-reality/#comment-1978 Thu, 13 Jul 2006 05:02:10 +0000 http://mattinglot.com/blog/2006/07/12/developing-a-detailed-vision-and-having-it-become-reality/#comment-1978 Wonder if your approach can be applied to websites without a business plan. Will it be sufficient? Anyway, an excellent way to look at things that take time. Wonder if your approach can be applied to websites without a business plan. Will it be sufficient? Anyway, an excellent way to look at things that take time.

]]> by: David Bain http://mattinglot.com/blog/2006/07/12/developing-a-detailed-vision-and-having-it-become-reality/#comment-1916 Wed, 12 Jul 2006 17:52:10 +0000 http://mattinglot.com/blog/2006/07/12/developing-a-detailed-vision-and-having-it-become-reality/#comment-1916 There's so much self-improvement stuff out there. I agree with the above. If you have the vision, and do lots of hard word, and keep on learning, you'll get there! There’s so much self-improvement stuff out there. I agree with the above. If you have the vision, and do lots of hard word, and keep on learning, you’ll get there!

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