2004 -- YOUR YEAR FOR GUARANTEED BUSINESS SUCCESS!

Don't just dream of success, make it a reality! While success may not be guaranteed, organizations with astute leaders have a higher chance of making it happen. So what is the first step in getting there? According to one business performance expert, it's as simple as identifying your challenges.

(PRWEB) December 29, 2003 --Every business leaders dream is to have guaranteed success in the New Year. While success may not be guaranteed, organizations with astute leaders have a higher chance of making it happen. What is the first step leaders must take to guarantee success? According to Business Performance Expert Pamela Harper, if you want to succeed, you must first identify your challenges.

In the next few months, business leaders everywhere will face one of three major challenges: 1) rebuilding their organization; 2) restructuring their organization, or 3) pulling their organization out of strategic gridlock" -- the mysterious paralysis that occurs when persistent organizational problems snarl business performance. No matter what the challenge, executives must understand it before they can even begin to take control.

Once you identify and understand the challenge your business is facing, you can then determine how to conduct strategic planning to overcome that specific challenge," Harper says. Identifying the problem will help executives balance the apparent facets of what should work with the less apparent facets of what will work in their particular organization." This knowledge allows leaders to better manage expectations and create a path that has the best chance of moving their organization forward.

For those who are rebuilding, they need to look back at past mistakes to set new goals, new directions, and new strategies that will lead them away from the identified roadblocks. When restructuring, leaders should be proactively seeking a way to sharpen their organizations competitive edge, while establishing a new pathway to the future -- a pathway clear of old challenges and stumbling blocks. If a business is currently in strategic gridlock" leaders must quickly identify their problems in order to design and implement a plan that will get the company back on track as soon as possible. Harper asserts, No matter what the situation, a clear and complete understanding of the challenge at hand will help any business leader design a plan to drive their company to success not only this year, but every year."    

Pamela Harper is an internationally known consultant and speaker and is the founder and president of Business Advancement, Inc. Since 1991, BAI has helped leaders of entrepreneurial, middle market and Fortune 500 Companies transform their business strategies into high performance results.

You can find more information on how to lead your business to success in the new year, as well as a plan to prevent strategic gridlock" in Pamela S. Harpers book Preventing Strategic Gridlock®: Leading Over, Under & Around Organizational Jams to Achieve High Performance Results. To obtain a review copy, please call 1-866-372-2636 or send an e-mail to marketing@cameopublications.com.
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