Posts Tagged ‘Goal Setting’

“Plan B? We don’t HAVE a Plan B!” I said, sounding exasperated to my business partners. We were to have our big event in less than two weeks.

You see, we only had about 13 registered people for our Summit last month and we were concerned we would not fill the event, the first of its type in NYC. What message would THAT send to the world that there were not enough Green Entrepreneurs interested in scaling up.

Some of the members of our team wanted a Plan B in case our goal of 40 attendees did not happen. And I could certainly understand why. We’d invested a lot of time and energy and what if things did not turn out? How do we manage the project? Read the rest of this entry »

All too often as entrepreneurs, there are a million and one ideas swimming around your head. You see trends in the marketplace that with the right mix of marketing, execution, technology, and effort could mean big success. But all too often, that million dollar idea quickly loses its luster and is soon replaced by another million dollar idea, and so on, and so on. Some of the keys to overcoming this obstacle were discussed in the “Goal Setting- the importance of 30, 60, and 90 day goals” panel discussion at NYEW this past November.

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