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longer and longer hours that are not matched by higher returns,
take the time to review and revise your strategy.
Ask yourself this critical question: What is it that I do
especially well? Examine the areas where you excel or are
clearly superior to others in your field. You need to know
what you can claim as your personal competitive advantage.
This is the lifeblood of personal strategic planning. The
answer to this question will give you a clear focus in your
work and life planning. Your success is tied directly to how
excellent you become at the most important part of your
work. Of all the responsibilities you face in life, this is one of
the most important: to identify that area of excellence that
can have the greatest positive impact on your career and your
income. Once you know what that is, pour all your energies
into becoming the best you can possibly be in that key
area.
Gary Hamel tells us in Competing for the Future that the
top companies project forward five years and then identify
the core competencies they will require at that time to dominate
their industries. They then implement a development
plan today to ensure that those core competencies are in
place when the future arrives.
Follow this strategy in your own personal planning. Do
you know what core competencies you will need to be at the
top of your field three to five years from now? What key
skills will you need to have? Do you know how these differ
from the key skills you are using today? How can you start
to develop these new skills? Begin today to develop a plan to
acquire and master those additional skills and abilities you
will need to be the best in your chosen field. Then work at
that plan every day.
Several years ago, we had a coaching client who was