Do You Need To Adjust Your 2016 Plans Already?

Published: Jan. 8, 2016, 7 p.m.

We're barely into the new year and already, things are changing that could very well get your 2016 plans off track.  That is unless you planned for change, planned for distractions, planned for new opportunities.  My business has a mission statement, but beyond that, I create a mission statement for my year too.  Each year, I think of the goals I have and following that, I define the year I expect to have.  This allows me to weigh each of my decisions against that mission statement.  If it doesn't line up, it doesn't make the cut.  This week, I review an article written by Bryce G. Hoffman called "Nine Things I Learned from Alan Mulally", the former CEO of Ford.  Mulally has an incredible business management style that brought Ford back from the brink of bankruptcy, and I want to talk about his leadership values and how you can incorporate them into your own.