By Crystal Faulkner, an EO Cincinnati member and partner of Cooney Faulkner & Stevens, LLC
As a co-founder and partner of our business and advisory accounting firm, we try to develop grandiose goals for our company. Each year, we develop specific strategies for growth and success, but like many business owners, oftentimes the day-to-day business activities take over and demand our attention leaving our strategies to fall by the wayside.
On the verge of celebrating our 15th year in business, we decided to take a step back and reflect on where we had been, where we were going and how we were going to get there. This reflection reminded all of us how excited and passionate we were about building our new business and making it as successful as possible. Through this process we realized we still needed to develop grandiose goals, but we needed to strategize differently in order to stay on track to actually accomplish them. (more…)