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Prioritizing your efforts

Prioritizing your efforts

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Prioritizing your efforts

- Once you've created a list of initiates that you're going to pursue to help you achieve your vision, you need to evaluate those initiatives according to objective criteria for comparing them to one another. Because ultimately you need to prioritize those initiatives and the ones you're going to pursue are the ones that meet the majority of your objective functions. I like to use a tool that I call strategic filters for doing this evaluation. Those strategic filters are going to be based upon the objective functions of your organization and the goals that you find to be important. Once you've constructed your strategic filters you're going to assess every single initiative relative to that set of filters. Let's say our company is growing and we're also trying to expand internationally and we really want to launch some new products. So we're going to create two types of filters. The first filter set is going to be qualitative, the second filter set is going to be quantitative. So I…

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