Exercise Your “Smarts” When Setting Business Goals
A time-honored carpenter’s axiom implores the diligent woodcutter to “measure twice, cut once.” Loosely adapting those words, the adage can also fit the business world, particularly when it comes to setting and achieving annual goals. We often use the beginning of the calendar year to reflect on – or measure, if you will – the past year’s accomplishments, then use those assessments to help shape the goals that we’d like to see “make the cut” in the months ahead. One year out,