By Derrick Brown (follow on Twitter @dbrowndbrown)
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Dear Hannah,
Vision, Mission, and Steps provide a path that helps you to walk in your life's purpose.
Vision, Mission, and Steps provide a path that helps you to walk in your life's purpose.
Vision describes what your efforts will produce / create - it describes your "end".
Mission describes the concrete path to your vision - it describes your "means".
Steps describe specific projects and tasks required to navigate that path - your "who", "what", "when", "where", "why", and "how".
Write these - so that whomever reads it may run with it.
Love,
Daddy
Writing Your First Business Plan (WYFBP)
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"LEarning (Writing Your First Business Plan (WYFBP))"
By Derrick Brown
8-10-2017
Many years ago, I developed a six-week class called "Writing Your First Business Plan".
The purpose of the class was to help entrepreneurs with GOoD ideas (good ideas from God) "wrap their minds" around their vision, mission, and steps - in a way that established and built positive momentum.
Vision describes what your efforts will produce / create - it describes your "end".
Mission describes the concrete path to your vision - it describes your "means".
Steps describe specific projects and tasks required to navigate that path - your "who", "what", "when", "where", "why", and "how".
I developed the class after reviewing the path I had navigated thus far while implementing my own vision.
My path began with a one-page business plan - written in the Summer of 1993 - that outlined my approach to being a computer consultant.
I was 23 when I wrote it, but even by then I understood that using a computer was my strongest skill set.
Educating and empowering people by learning to use computers efficiently was my strongest interest (my passion).
In 1996, I wrote a more formal business plan that helped launch an African-related Internet directory called The Universal Black Pages (UBP).
My current venture, KnowledgeBase, was first UBP's marketing and outreach arm - then we went "solo" in 1998.
All of this was defined and outlined in that formal plan - which received a lot of positive feedback, and allowed us to run our business "on paper".
This helped us avoid a lot of costly mistakes (I mean financial ones).
We still made more than our fair share (especially management & leadership ones), and earned some painful wisdom through lessons learned.
Through it all, though, I remembered that one-page plan, and the confidence, clarity, and calm it brought when I finished it.
I wanted to outline a process that would help others achieve that same confidence, clarity, and calm.
Then I wanted to walk through that process with them.
Let me show it to you ...
I led 250 people through this process from 2001 to 2002 in multiple 6-week sessions that I recorded on my laptop.
These recordings prepared me for podcasting before I even knew what podcasting was.
Listening to them also helped me grow as a man.
There is nothing more humbling than listening to yourself teach others while realizing how much you have left to LEarn.
Suffice it to say that I am still LEarning, still teaching, and still have a long way to go.
But I am confident that I know how to get there.
And I am faithful that I will.
Selah.
About Derrick Brown (Principal Consultant)
I am Keisha's husband, and Hannah's father.
My *other* passion is empowering people via methods that balance skill & will, analysis & synthesis, ideas & execution, and activity & achievement.
I am the product of my mentoring relationships, peacemaking (and peacekeeping), and problem-solving ability.
I am a publisher, filmmaker, executive coach & registered mediator with engineering degrees from Clemson and Georgia Tech.
My education began when I finished school.
After school, I enrolled in a lifelong curriculum that includes the following classes ...
- ministry (serving people)
- entrepreneurship (developing solutions that serve people)
- stewardship (taking care of relationships, possessions, talents, body, mind, and time)
- literacy (reading & writing skills)
- numeracy (math skills)
- language (communication skills)
- self-expression (sharing "who you are")
- self-identity (knowing "who you are")
- analysis & synthesis (solving problems & sharing solutions)
KnowledgeBase is a ministry that has evolved from wisdom earned through lessons learned.
I want to share this wisdom to build teams of "triple threat" fellows - mentors, mediators, and problem solvers.
We will collaborate in simple, powerful ways that allow us to help people.
I now know that power is work done efficiently (with wise and skillful use of resources, interests, communication, and expertise).
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