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Setting Your Goals Knowing What You Want |
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by Victoria Kozlova and Vadim Kotelnikov
"You can have anything you really want but you cannot have everything you want"
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Defining What You Want Defining what you want is the critical first step in almost any situation. What Goals are Worth Achieving? Goals worth achieving are mission-oriented goals. Channeling your grand vision into a specific direction and action makes the difference between being an idle dreamer and being a person with a mission. "The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another" - Alexander Graham Bell Case in Point: 25 Lessons from Jack Welch Jack Welch, the former legendary CEO of General Electric, urged everybody to stretch. Stretch targets energize. "We have found that by reaching for what appears to be the impossible, we often actually do the impossible; and even when we don't quite make it, we inevitably wind up doing much better than we would have done."...More Case in Point: Kentucky Fried Chicken Why Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants are always packed? "They have outlets all over the world, and they are successful because set a goal and achieved it: they have persuaded people to got there to eat. They are a global brand because they can be trusted to deliver predictable nourishment conveniently and at fair value - and they keep their promise. The very nature of business and branding is that you keep your promise to the customers
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