Tim Irwin joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the role that knowing your purpose – for yourself and the environment you find yourself in – is a critical element of making plans that will bring success.

Beverly Flaxington joins Jim Blasingame to discuss your plans for the New Year, including whether you’re looking forward to backward, whether you’re focused on quality or quantity performance, and whether that fits you best.

Ruth King joins Jim Blasingame to reveal why your future plans must include writing down the financial and non-financial elements that you need to achieve your goals, especially the power of budgeting.

Ruth King joins Jim Blasingame to reveal why the second planning question to ask yourself about future direction is “why?” you want to go there.

Ruth King joins Jim Blasingame to encourage you to focus on your future planning by asking yourself what you want to do, and then writing down what you decide – on paper.

Gene Siciliano joins Jim Blasingame to discuss how to determine that if a project fails, was it because we didn’t have the best information, or that we had bad systems and processes.

Gene Siciliano joins Jim Blasingame to reveal why what we’ve already invested in a project that is failing – the sunk costs – is not a reason to continue throwing good money after bad, and how to develop viability metrics.

Gene Siciliano joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the fact that most of us have difficulty admitting that one of our ideas isn’t going to work out, and how that real tendency costs us more than we know.

Peter Meyer joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the questions that must be asked of yourself and your organization when you decide to grow your business, including will this make us happy.

Peter Meyer joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the element of competence as you consider personal, professional and organizational growth.