The future begins today. Whether you plan it or not, it goes forward with momentum beyond your control. The adage that “life is what happens while you are making plans” is as true in business as it is in your personal life. While you are planning your marketing campaign, your potential customer is acting on doing business with your competitor. While you are planning a human resource strategy to retain your top talent, an executive search firm is recruiting them for the competition. Scarlett O’Hara may have been able to get away with “thinking about it tomorrow” but you must take action NOW!
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Vicki Donlan
(Visit Vicki's Website)
Vicki Donlan is former publisher and
founder of Women’s Business Boston, a
25,000 controlled-circulation newspaper
devoted to women in business in the
Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Rhode
Island region. She is a regular guest
discussing women in business on New
England Cable News' Business Day. Her
first book HER TURN Why It's Time For
Women To Lead in America was published in
September 2007 by Praeger Publishing.
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