Drafting the Five Key Players to Accomplish any Goal: Part 1 Businesses have to be willing to adjust if it’s going to survive in today’s constantly changing world. Hard times and innovations are constantly threatening to demean your company’s presence in the market. Let it go too long and you will become obsolete within just a few years. Stay up with the times by watching for new ways of doing things.
The Key Players When you find something you’d like to do, make a goal to get it done and then hire a strategic planning company to help you get it done. The company will create a strategic planning committee. They will seek out all the right players for a team to see success in your goal. Every committee needs all-stars to make a play work. These office athletes are the play makers of every goal. If one of them is missing, you’ll create an imbalance in the team, and can potentially lose the game.
The Wiki-Man The key players your strategic planning company need are the wiki-man, the innovator, the devil’s advocate, the visionary and the worker. Every good company must provide a wiki-man to their strategic planning committee. This is the man or woman who knows every little detail about the company. From understanding its roots to naming the key components of every product the company has ever produced, this person knows it all. They have been there the longest. They have been involved in every department. They can answer any question about any department in the company. This player is incredibly important to the team because when the committee comes up with ideas, they need to be able to check with the wiki-man to see if that kind of thing is in-line with the company and its goals.
The Innovator He saves the committee the hassle of asking the heads of each of the departments for advice on the matter. The innovator is a creative brainstormer. He or she is creative by nature and can give you an endless source of ideas for solving a problem. They freely associate ideas together, creating a constant flow of new ideas.
The innovator isn’t restricted by common convention or peer pressure. They see an issue and find a creative way to fix it, despite what the world thinks of it. Steve Jobs is one of the greatest examples of a true innovator. Conventional business sense tells you to find the cheapest, easiest way to make a product that works. Translated into layman’s terms, if you’re going to make something like an MP3 player, it only needs to look good on the outside and who cares what it looks like on the inside. Steve thought differently though. He wanted the iPod to be truly amazing inside and out. He focused his attention on making the inside of his music player just as beautiful and cool as the outside. Just in case someone broke inside to see how it works, they’ll find a myriad of colors and design in an unexpected place. You can’t help but be impressed by a company that goes to those lengths to make sure their product is the best. Although this did not solve any particular problem Apple was experiencing, it created a sense of awe within iPod owners, creating a more loyal customer base. Steve was truly an innovator because he put conventional wisdom to the wind and did his own thing, creating an empire from scratch. This is not the end of our list. For more on the devil’s advocate, visionary, and worker look for the second part of this article.