6 Chart Your Projects
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MOST WORK INbusiness is a series of projects. Your ability
to complete projects largely determines your success in your
career. A project is defined as a “multitask job.” A project is a
result that requires the completion of a series of many
smaller jobs.
Perhaps the most powerful tool you can use to maximize
your effectiveness and dramatically increase your level of
accomplishment is a checklist. A checklist consists of a writ-
ten series of steps, in chronological order, which you create
in advance of beginning work in the first place.
Your ability to clearly define and determine the steps that
you will have to take from where you are today to a success-
fully completed project is a mark of superior thinking. The
rule, once again, is that every minute spent in planning and