Heard a good one the other day, "When you say yes to one thing, it means saying no to something else."
You have to be careful with your commitments. Not keeping them means that you lose credibility. Keeping them means that there may be some unintended consequences such as missing something that you actually find more important to keep the original commitment.
For me that means Wife, Kids, Work, Health. These are the things that I must schedule for in 2011. If I can fit the other stuff in them 'yea for me', other wise 'oh well.'
Applying this concept at the organizational level is nothing more than Jim Collins' hedgehog concept. Simply put the hedge hog concept is the ability to consistently be deliberate in the simple policy of doing great business. The business has a laser focus on what it is going to do and therefore knows what to say yes to and what to say no to.
If your business cannot create a list of things that it has said "no" to, then it is not focused enough.
Easy to say, hard to do.
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