March 14, 2007
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to Guide: Define your goals, accomplish more - personally and professionally
In a world full of deadlines and time constraints setting aside time for goal setting can be a challenge. Remember that time spent carefully choosing your goals and success measures will save time in the long run by accelerating your overall strategy. Check out these 5 basic steps to creating good business goals. Download our personal goal setting worksheet to create your balanced goals today. |
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It’s always great to see the success of other companies – both well known and unknown – that have reached their vision. Here are some talking points to help you inspire your team that being strategic really works (I hope you're inspired by their success – I know I am): Catalytica Pharmaceuticals: A 1,700 employee, Mountain View, California-based pharmaceutical outsourcer that made the world's supply of such drugs as AZT and Wellbutrin. The company was founded in 1993 and was sold to DSM of Holland for $800 million in 2000. MLMReporter.com: Founded in 2000, this company, which sells online marketing programs and systems, was sold two years later to KMT Media for just under $250,000 in April 2002. Paypal: An online payment service based in San Jose was sold to eBay three years after it was founded for $1.5 billion in stock in June 2002. MySpace: A social networking website (the fourth most popular English language website as of May 2006), was sold to media giant News Corp for $580 million in 2006 three years after it was founded. |
| The Portland, Oregon company, Speak Shop, offers a real-time video-conferencing service for Spanish students to connect with tutors and instructors in Spanish-speaking countries. The company’s mission is to improve the lives of language tutors and students and to foster intercultural understanding and respect. The owners have been committed to strategic planning for the past two years through the company’s start-up product development phase. The outcome? An online service that truly meets the needs of students and instructors and the evidence is in the company’s double-digit growth. |
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