The importance of an accurate Goal specification

[ChrisGreaves]

I always ask prospects/clients "What is your goal?", and hound them mercilessly until they can define their goal in a one-breath sentence.

    If you don't have a goal, you cannot know when we have reached your goal.
    And if I cannot state that we have reached your goal, you will remain unhappy.
    And if you remain unhappy, you will not write a cheque.
    And if I don't get paid, i will go hungry, and be miserable.

here is how Muggins achieved his goal.
Use him as your role-model.

Cheers
Chris

[HansV]

I read elsewhere that one snake survived, so he didn't even reach 100%...

[StuartR]

I read elsewhere that one snake survived, so he didn't even reach 100%...

Requiring 100% is so completist Hans, I think he did a pretty good job.

[ChrisGreaves]

I read elsewhere that one snake survived, so he didn't even reach 100%...

Oh come ON Hans.
Cut the guy a little slack.
Have you never heard a news report that "fire hoses snaked across the ground ..."?
Pedantically yours
Chris

[ChrisGreaves]

I read elsewhere that one snake survived, so he didn't even reach 100%...

Requiring 100% is so completist Hans, I think he did a pretty good job.

Me too. Not bad for an amateur, and even if a real-live snake did survive:-
(1) Muggins wanted to get rid of a "snake infestation"
(2) Muggins has a 50% chance that the survivor was male and
(3) Muggins made 75 new friends.

But then Piringer said the fire, caused by placing coals too close to combustible material, was accidental, and I have a problem with that. I fail to see how intentionally placing something somewhere can be said to be accidental.

I have my suspicions about Pete, and would like to learn more about Muggins's insurance policy. Especially if one can buy a Lamborghini for under a million dollars.

I'm just sayin' ...
Cheers
Chris

[ChrisGreaves]

I always ask prospects/clients "What is your goal?", and hound them mercilessly until they can define their goal in a one-breath sentence.

There again, Poolesville [is] a town about 25 miles outside of Washington, so if Muggins was thinking of smoking out a different kind of snake, he could be handed a different kind of sentence.
Don't hold your breath ...
Cheers
Chris

[ChrisGreaves]

I always ask prospects/clients "What is your goal?", and hound them mercilessly until they can define their goal in a one-breath sentence.

The MSN news item "Seventy-five firefighters were needed to put it out. No humans were hurt" I believe, give us some insight into Microsoft's view of "Humans" as distinct from "Users".
Cheers
Chris

[ChrisGreaves]

I always ask prospects/clients "What is your goal?", and hound them mercilessly until they can define their goal in a one-breath sentence.

There again, maybe Muggins just was ticked off at whoever didn't teach the Washington Post reporter English syntax in grade school.
I mean, "In the process, the homeowner caught the house on fire,".
really!

Ok that's it.
I have to get back to work, otherwise I won't achieve today's goal : to find out whether last night's power outage and subsequent surge burned out my 2,500W baseboard heater, or just the $cdn78 programmable thermostat I installed last week.
And before you ask, "No, I didn't catch my house on fire".

Cheers
Chris