The document discusses the importance of planning for success in business. It states that the failure to plan properly is planning for failure. It then outlines five critical components of success: vision, skills, incentives, resources, and plan. Each component is discussed in more detail, emphasizing how a lack of or weakness in each component can lead to issues like confusion, anxiety, resistance, frustration, and mistakes. The document concludes by stressing the importance of continuously challenging and improving your vision, skills, incentives, resources, and plan in order to maximize the chances of success.

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Lars A Chr Welinder
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1. THE PURPOSE OF PLANNING
The failure to plan properly
is to plan for failure !
Thoughtform 1 of 5

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Lars A Chr Welinder
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The Critical Components of Success!
Success in business is based on the
combination of many factors.
Being in the right place at the
right time is only partly
manageable, whereas others
require painstaking planning and
execution…
Vision Skills Incentive Resource Plan

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Lars A Chr Welinder
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Lack of Vision leads to Confusion!
Having a vision isn’t as easy as it
may sound. It is an ability to see
beyond the horizon, appreciating
that the world is a changing place.
And the world has never moved
faster than it is now…
Vision Skills Incentive Resource Plan

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Lars A Chr Welinder
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Skills gap causes Anxiety!
Enthusiasm may well get you
started, but it will not be enough
for driving success. In business,
the “fingertip feeling” and the
right skills are essential. The
balance of WHAT and HOW is key…
Vision Skills Incentive Resource Plan
Vision Skills Incentive Resource Plan

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Lars A Chr Welinder
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Failing Incentives results in Resistance!
There are many incentives
available to drive success. “Being
part of it” may be an important
factor whereas money is often a
lower motivator. And if your team
does not feel properly appreciated
you’ve already lost…
Vision Skills Incentive Resource Plan
Vision Skills Incentive Resource Plan
Vision Skills Incentive Resource Plan

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Lars A Chr Welinder
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Shortage of Resources drives Frustration!
Resource is perhaps the most
underestimated success factor in
any business; particularly in
entrepreneurial and creative
businesses. Monetary capital is
easy to understand, whereas the
human capital can be lost at great
expense…
Vision Skills Incentive Resource Plan
Vision Skills Incentive Resource Plan
Vision Skills Incentive Resource Plan
Vision Skills Incentive Resource Plan

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Lars A Chr Welinder
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Absence of Planning creates Mistakes!
The only thing that is certain with
a plan is that it will never happen
as planned. At every encounter
with reality, assumptions will
change and failure to keep a plan
up-to-date will guarantee failure…
Vision Skills Incentive Resource Plan
Vision Skills Incentive Resource Plan
Vision Skills Incentive Resource Plan
Vision Skills Incentive Resource Plan
Vision Skills Incentive Resource Plan

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Lars A Chr Welinder
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Focus On Criteria Until Success!
So, challenge the Vision, keep
your Skills up-to-date, make sure
that Incentives are aligned to real
key success factors and that
Resources are available and
applied to a constantly updated
Plan! Then you are at least looking
in the right direction…
VISION Skills Incentive Resource Plan
Vision SKILLS Incentive Resource Plan
Vision Skills INCENTIVE Resource Plan
Vision Skills Incentive RESOURCE Plan
Vision Skills Incentive Resource PLAN

9. © Macaw Management Ltd
www.macawgroup.com
Lars A Chr Welinder
www.linkedin.com/in/larswelinder | www.macawgroup.com
Focus On Criteria Until Success!
So, challenge the Vision, keep
your Skills up-to-date, make sure
that Incentives are aligned to real
key success factors and that
Resources are available and
applied to a constantly updated
Plan! Then you are at least looking
in the right direction…
VISION Skills Incentive Resource Plan
Vision SKILLS Incentive Resource Plan
Vision Skills INCENTIVE Resource Plan
Vision Skills Incentive RESOURCE Plan
Vision Skills Incentive Resource PLAN

10. © Macaw Management Ltd
www.macawgroup.com
Lars A Chr Welinder
www.linkedin.com/in/larswelinder | www.macawgroup.com
Lars A Chr Welinder
Lars brings some 40 years experience gained from entrepreneurial
and international businesses and management; both “hands-on” and
at board level, including business design, finance, build and launch
and all gained from both the industrialised and developing worlds.
Founded several successful businesses, including a highly awarded
international marketing services group, a global retail services
business and brought a leading edge IT company to a public listing.
For 10 years, Lars has been a Partner of Mango Aviation Partners Ltd and its Director
of Europe, Middle East & Africa and he is the Founder Partner & Managing Director of
Macaw Management Ltd.
He is active as a London City Liveryman in the World Traders’ Company and a Fellow
Member of both the Chartered Institute of Marketing and the Institute of Directors.
www.linkedin.com/in/larswelinder
Macaw Management Ltd
lars.welinder@macawgroup.com
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