Strategy and Tactics Make Dreams A Reality

Author: Ernst H. Gemassmer, one of the founders of Startup Professionals team.
Original article:. http://blog. startupprofessionals. com/2010/08/strategy-and-tactics-make-dreams. html.

Strategy and tactics turn dreams into reality.

Some entrepreneurs are so captured my dream, that the rush to implement it immediately, without first thinking about any strategy or tactics of the. As a result, when they meet with the first obstacle (and there will be many more ), it seems that it's over. They just do not know where to go further.

In my experience, there are undoubted benefits to spend the time initially to develop an overall strategy and tactics of the business before you move forward. This is necessary to turn your vision into a clear written plan to obtain seed funding, and to adapt to necessary changes in the course of.

Here is a brief summary of the steps I recommend you go along:.

1. 
   Turn your dream into a vision. What is the difference between the dream and vision? . You have to think about his dream, to discuss it with friends, partners and experts, until it becomes more definite and concrete. So your original dream turns into a vision.
   


2. 
   Transform your vision into a strategy and plan. With the help of trusted friends and colleagues, you can now convert the vision into a written plan with a strategy. Now the vision is available to understand the potential funding partners. They now see clearly that you have done the right job, you know the market, and gathered a virtual team, that is a real team for funding.
   


3. 
   Find friends, ... Count on numerous short and long presentations, the next step - to transform a vision into a plan with the strategy and obtain the necessary start-up funding. And even with the vision and strategy, you still do not see and will not know how to overcome many obstacles are in front.
   


4. 
   Now is the time to develop tactics to support your strategy. Here, working with a new team to implement the tactics are very important to your leadership. You have to look for affordable place to work, to determine the role of your team members to develop a product or service, develop primary sales channels and customers to work with the first. These efforts are time consuming and require all the energy that you and your team can give. Do not get lost in the details and keep in mind the overall strategy.
   


5. 
   Change your tactics and adapt the strategy, but do not lose vision. You, the founder and leader of the new team should be periodically diverted from routine and remind yourself what your main goal and strategy to achieve it. Be sure to revise the assumptions underlying your strategy. If one go a few key assumptions have changed, adapt the strategy, tactics change, repeat the whole cycle again.
   

According to their own experience, I have been disappointed at times fundamental changes affecting my business that I really noticed in the process, but could not properly assess the. Especially important are changes in the following areas: technology, competition and changes in legislation relating to your business. Pay due attention to the signals of changes at each stage.

My recommendation to you: Achieve your dreams, develop a vision and strategy and then, hopefully, successful implementation. You, as a leader should be headed by his team, sharing their vision, strategy and tactics. It's OK to modify or change the implementation of the whole situation is changed, provided that the main goal is achievable and has a sense of. As a leader, you focus on the adaptation of tactics to achieve success, rather than seeking to blame the fact that your dream has failed.


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