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Tune into the Business Habitat podcast with Sam Dean.

[Previously known as ‘The In Demand Accountant’ podcast].

In our expert professional services businesses, where the rules were written last century and the world keeps changing around us...how do we as experts who have spent years, sometimes decades getting our technical skills to the ultimate level and proportionally little time learning the ones required to grow our businesses based on our own terms, re-write the rules for ourselves.

That’s the question and this show explores the answers.

Stay tuned and enjoy some brave conversations.

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Episode 73: The Crucial Step of Executing the Plan

Sam examines the third element of Strategic Planning and explains why Execution is arguably the most crucial of the three phases. With the Strategy and Plan put in place, Sam talks the listener through the steps to complete this final phase in order to drive optimal results.

“A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week”. This quote by General George Patton of the US military reinforces Sam’s point that it’s better to execute a plan sooner, even though it may not be perfect, rather than to continue to delay.

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