Monday, July 13, 2009

Prepare For The Worst

Plan for the best and prepare for the worst is an age old advice. Obviously you want your plans to be as excellent as possible in order to exploit the opportunity and hit it big. However, it is often more important to cover the soft underbelly and protect the downside properly. Prepare yourself and your team by asking "what if" questions in the style of "What is the worst that could happen?"

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Urban Gavelin a native Swede with more than twenty five years of business experience. He has held positions as director of sales- marketing- and business development on Nordic, European and World Wide levels. Urban has lived and worked in Stockholm, London and New York, now works primarily with leadership development and sales training and is a credentialed coach. He has studied Executive Management at Lausanne Business School and Stockholm School of Economics.

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