Strategic Focus

How soon? What urgency?

The most important concept is your strategic focus, which many quantify as critical success factors, and present as strategic intent, priority issues or whatever phrase signals 'this we must do,' this is fundmental to our success.

What must we do very well to achieve our vision?

After you have studied the demand - supply problem, you make decisions as the leaders to prioritize work. How focused are you and your employees on your customers? Does our strategic focus empower our key players to act?

Think as a boss: Will it benefit our customers? Is the timing right? Do I have the resources? Who can I trust to do it? What is it going to cost? What is the effect on the bottom line?

How soon must you act? I use the 80/20 rule. Of the 100% of the important things you must do, about 20% are going to have the most impact on your success.

Do you need to "refocus" your folks on that 20%?