Switching to a 90 day planning cycle was one of the best management approaches I ever implemented, and helped me get more done in a smaller period than I ever h

Switching to a 90 day planning cycle was one of the best management approaches I ever implemented, and helped me get more done in a smaller period than I ever had before. A few reasons: 1) Shifting from an annual planning process to a 90 day plan lets you try things out faster and learn from what works and what doesn't. It also keeps you away from huge initiatives that quickly become boondoggles without breaking them down into smaller pieces. 2) Once you get to a shorter time horizon, you can get down to specific actions, rather than broad objectives. In doing so, you can actually verify if the goal is being accomplished. 3) Most companies struggle with getting one-off project work done at the same time as their normal day to day jobs. When you have a longer time horizon, people don't spend more time on the project, they just wait until the last minute to get it done. So the further off you put the last minute, the longer you're going to wait. 4) You build momentum by ticking things off the organizational to-do list at a regular clip. Keeping the pace light and fast makes sure things move forward and don't get bogged down (or if they do, that you can unblock them quickly). 5) This last one might sound simple, but when you write things down, you make it harder for people to forget to do something, or what was said, or what the expectation was.