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October 2011
Everyone who ever worked for a very talented CEO got the POIE lecture numerous times. He made people step back before they came up with an idea and pulled the trigger on it.
P — Plan
O — Organize
I — Implement
E — Evaluate
Who among our readers can identify this CEO?
August 2010
New ideas are the lifeblood of any organization. Without them, companies perish.
No organization can have too many ideas. The issue is how many ideas you take on at one time.
A rocket uses 85 percent of its energy to break the gravitational pull of the Earth’s orbit. If you divided the available fuel among it and three other rockets of equal size, none of them would get off the ground. At the same time, smaller rockets could launch on less fuel.
YOUR TURN: How do you choose the right number of big and little projects to launch at any one time?