Last Day of the Year!!!

Well here it is - the last day of the year and I am excited!

2008 - this is the first year that I am totally prepared to take action and conduct business. The technology and resources are in place and my efforts to focus on planning are paying of. My focus is to do some hard core management and sales. The goal is to continue building on this momentum and hit my profit target.

Just gotta stick to the plan!!!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

The Final Drucker of the Year:

Information is what holds an organization together and information is what makes individual knowledge workers effective. Enterprises and individuals will have to learn what information they need and how to get it. They will have to learn how to organize information as their key resource.

In moving from data literacy to information literacy, you need to answer two principal questions: “What information does my enterprise need?” and “What information do I need?” To answer these questions you have to rethink:

• What your job is, and what it should be

• What your contribution is, or should be

• What the fundamentals are of your organization

You will need three different types of information, each with its own concepts. The three primary types of information are: external information, internal information, and cross-organizational information. Your success and the success of your organization depend upon getting these answers right.

Source: www.druckerinstitute.com
Management Challenges for the 21st Century
From Data to Information Literacy
(Corpedia Online Program)

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Still in Kauai

Last week I came to Kauai, Hawaii to attend the wedding of my financial adviser (Walter Chao) and was happy to meet his family, friends and other clients. Attending this event and getting to know Walter's family and friends made me realize that I am fortunate to have him on my team and feel a great deal of trust in his character and dedication.

At the wedding I met Walter's astrologer (Joyce Van Horn) who owns Partners in Healing in San Francisco. Does Walter consult with the stars before advising me? I don't know but his advice has been great so far. It was exciting to meet Joyce and learn that perhaps I should go see her and get an astrology reading for myself - it is all about planning after all.

It seems that getting a reading - although it does not predict the future - will assist me in my efforts to develop a solid plan. I will still strive to accomplish tasks accordingly however the stars may tell me when the optimal time is to implement plan items. I will look into it and use it a s another technique to keep me focused on finishing my business plan achieving my objectives.

What would the great management guru Peter Drucker say about this? He would say:

"The best way to predict the future is to create it!"
- Peter Drucker

What's the plan for today? Well the storm has passed and the sun is out so to the Westside I go - today I will spend the day hanging out at Polihale Beach Park. Polihale is the longest white sand beach in Hawaii - 14 miles of nothing but white sand.

There are so many things on my mind to accomplish and for the first time in my life I feel like I am definitely on the right track - just have to be prepared and that means having a plan!

Aloha!

Another Exciting Day!

So here I am planning and planning and then planning some more; how much more planning? Well I am beginning to see the plan starting to form and it is exciting to see that with minimal effort I am starting to "see the light" and I wonder - "what if I just focus a little more?" Humm????

This morning it is the marketing plan that is being worked on and it it is the TV advertising section of the plan that is in process. Just met with B. Martinez from our local cable company and it looks like I will be able to create a commercial for approximately $1,200 or less then depending on my monthly budget I can place it on as many channels and with as much frequency as I wish. Once I determine my monthly budget I will have them put a schedule together for me. B. Martinez suggests a saturation time of at least six weeks which is less than the 3 months I was estimating.

King of Solano Plan - that is my current plan for taking over Solano County and strengthening my roots while building wealth and having fun. The first steps involve:
1. Create "infomercial" starting in February.
2. Working from 10 - 12 every Tuesday and Thursday from my Fairfield office.
3. Canvassing Fairfield businesses from 1:00 to 5:00.

So that's it for now since it is time to work on some transactions.

Here are 20 quotes from Peter Drucker:

1. The critical question is not "How can I achieve?" but "What can I contribute?"
2. There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer. He alone gives employment.
3. It is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance of a whole mass.
4. Leadership is not rank. It is responsibility.
5. An executive should be a realist; and no one is less realistic than the cynic.
6. You cannot prevent a major catastrophe, but you can build an organization that is battle-ready, where people trust one another. In military training, the first rule is to instill soldiers with trust in their officers -- because without trust, they won't fight.
7. Listening (the first competence of leadership) is not a skill, it is a discipline. All you have to do is keep your mouth shut.
8. It is easy to look good in a boom.
9. Luck never built a business. Prosperity and growth come only to the business that systematically finds and exploits its potential.
10. The one person to distrust is the one who never makes a mistake. Either he is a phony, or he stays with the safe, the tried, and the trivial.
11. There are keys to success in managing bosses. First, put down on a piece of paper a "boss list," everyone to whom you are accountable. Next, go to each person on the list and ask, "What do I do and what do my people do that helps you do your job?" And, "What do we do that makes your life more difficult?"
12. Workmanship is essential: In fact, an organization demoralizes itself if it does not demand of its members the highest workmanship.
13. A decision is a commitment to action. No decision has, in fact, been made until carrying it out has become somebody's responsibility.
14. It's much easier to sell the Brooklyn Bridge than to give it away. Nobody trusts you if you offer something for free.
15. The ultimate test of an information system is that there are no surprises.
16. Until a business returns a profit that is greater than its cost of capital, it does not create wealth -- it destroys it.
17. The question has to be asked -- and asked seriously -- "If we did not do this already, would we go into it now?" If the answer is no, the reaction must be "What do we do now?" Very often, the right answer is abandonment.
18. Freedom is not fun. It is a responsible choice.
19. One can't manage change. One can only be ahead of it.
20. Just go out and make yourself useful.

Source: 20 Reasons to Love Peter Drucker

Daily Drucker + My Comments

The best way to predict the future is to create it.
-Peter Drucker

Well back at work from Thanksgiving and I am ready to get the week started. Tomorrow will be the first meeting in our Fairfield office and I am really looking forward to it. Let's look back on this post in three years and then look around at our "permanent" office. Goal, done, set!

Daily Drucker + My Comments

What's up? Well before we get to Mr. Drucker I should mention that I am finally taking some steps forward with my business plan. So far my personal plan is in effect and I am looking at it everyday and accomplishing tasks. Now for the LSF business plan I must consolidate my outline into one rough draft and meet with Tom Fujii again to take the next steps. I believe that my plan is a living, working plan that is only one or two steps ahead of my actions and with some long term components.

Today I will prepare for my commercial meeting at Joe's Buffett - Joe owns a few commercial buildings in Fairfield and this is part of my "King of Solano" plan. Oh well that's enough plan talk for the day - now it is time to take action!

Finally - The Daily Drucker:
What the enterprise needs is a principle that gives both the center and the parts genuine managerial functions and powers. This principle is federalism, in which the whole of the enterprise is conceived as made up of autonomous units. The federal enterprise and all its units are in the same business. The same economic factors determine the future of the whole as well as of all units; the same basic decisions have to be made for all of them; the same kind and type of executive is needed. Hence the whole requires a unified management in charge of the basic functions: the decision what business the enterprise is in, the organization of the human resources, and the selection, training, and testing of future leaders.

At the same time, each unit is a business by itself. It produces its own products for a distinct market. Each unit must, therefore, have wide autonomy within limits set by the general decisions of the management of the whole. Each unit has to have its own management. The local management will be primarily an operating management; it will be concerned mainly with the present and immediate future rather than with basic policy. But within a limited scope it will have also to discharge real top-management functions.

The Daily Drucker

The pioneers of management a century ago were right: organizational structure is needed. The modern enterprise needs organization. But the pioneers were wrong in their assumption that there is—or should be— one right organization. Instead of searching for the right organization, management needs to learn to look for, to develop, to test, the organization that fits the task.

There are some “principles” of organization. One is that organization has to be transparent. People have to know and have to understand the organization structure they are supposed to work in. Someone in the organization must have the authority to make the final decision in a given area. It also is a sound principle that authority be commensurate with responsibility. It is a sound principle that any one person in an organization should have only one “master.” These principles are not too different from the ones that inform an architect’s work. They do not tell him what kind of building to build. They tell him what the restraints are. And this is pretty much what the various principles of organization structure do.

Source:
www.druckerinstitute.com

The Daily Drucker

Setting objectives is so important that some of the most effective managers I know have each of their subordinates write a “manager’s letter” twice a year. In this letter to his superior, each manager first defines the objectives of his superior’s job and of his own job as he sees them. He then sets down the performance standards that he believes are being applied to him. Next, he lists the things he must do to attain these goals—and the things within his own unit he considers the major obstacles. He lists the things his superior and the company do that help him and the things that hamper him. Finally, he outlines what he proposes to do during the next year to reach his goals. If his superior accepts this statement, the “manager’s letter” becomes the charter under which the manager operates.

Mutual understanding can never be attained by “communications down,” can never be created by talking. It can result only from “communications up.” It requires both the superior’s willingness to listen and a tool especially designed to make lower managers heard.

Source:
www.druckerinstitute.com

Gotta Get On It!!

OK man today I really have to make some moves. I know what I have to do so I better take the steps to make it happen. I don't know what is going on with me but I am not myself. Come on Billy!!!! Be yourself, start with baby steps. Type in your personal plan and load into your tasks then scan all those biz cards sitting on your desk and start your money moves. Money moves are the steps I have to take to get my plan accomplished. I can do it I know I can - just need to get off my *** and do it!

The Plan!

So it has become clear that I have to get my business plan in place by January in order to take my company to the next level. Mr. T. Fujii is helping me with that and the first part was to develop a personal plan. On Friday I got to work on my personal plan and have completed it. Now it is time to convert it into tasks and look at it everyday. Next - LSFWC Biz Plan! I gotta make it happen!

I'm Back!!

Ok I am back now and ready to keep posting. I guess I'll star by saying that I just got with the times and got me a Nano - wow what a cool toy - what took me so long to get with the times! Looks like I will be up most of the night loading songs and getting ready for my trip to Hawaii.

Yes that''s right I am heading to Honolulu to do some business, relax, see a friend's new baby and see what new deals I can pick up.

Aloha!!!