When Business Planning Becomes Necessary
Recently I wrote an article on ‘Why you don’t need a business plan.’ This started up a fair amount of controversy in The Business Oasis (no longer active).
(Aside: For those who don’t know, The Business Oasis is the online community I run for heart-centered business owners. Anyone who owns the Guidebook qualifies to join.)
Several community members, who are very experienced in business, chimed in to say that the high failure rate of new businesses can largely be attributed to a lack of planning during the early formative years.
Many of us had a great discussion about planning that went on for several days. It seems that people who were planning-averse found some new insights into approaching planning, and those who were big planning advocates were seeing the overwhelm that was engendered by a lack of heart-centered planning approaches.
And I had the realization that it was possible to skim my article and come out thinking: “I don’t ever need to plan, I can just follow my heart in the moment, and be okay.” Well, that’s not really true.
So, here’s what I have to say about planning:
When business planning becomes necessary Read this article.
Listen to the podcast- around seven minutes.
Are you ready to experience the freedom of planning?