Times are tough. In the midst of tough times, sometimes a business manage has to do something. But deciding to do something is different than deciding how to do something…

Entrepreneur.com had a good piece recently on creating an action plan.

This is the number one secret to effective goal setting; regardless of what your goal is, the key to reaching it is always the same. The best, perhaps the only, way to turn an abstract goal into an attainable reality is to create an action plan; a nitty-gritty, no-nonsense action plan.

Ray Silverstein goes on to give you four basic steps to writing (and carrying out) and action plan.

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