• Reason #5: Since you don't dare invest money anywhere else right now, you might as well invest it in yourself, your know-how, your self-improvement, and your business.
• Reason #4: You aren't going to get a "bail-out" from anybody but yourself!
• Reason #3: "All weather is local."  What happens in YOUR business, YOUR finances, and YOUR life still has much more to do with how YOU think, what information YOU acquire, who YOU connect with, and what YOU do, than with any goings on in Washington or on Wall Street.
• Reason #2: You can't just ‘wait this out' and hope everything will soon return to ‘normal.'  An entire New Economy is developing, presenting new challenges and new opportunities, requiring new strategies, which is why we feel it is critical that you start now with a serious analysis and optimization of your ‘process' so that you can create the future you dream of.
• Reason #1: Only the Best and the Brightest invest in their own development, it's how they create that ‘slight edge' difference between them and the next person which when compounded hour by hour and day by day and week by week allows the few to blow the doors off the many. Learn more about the slight edge at http://www.212movie.com/

We are in challenging times and 2009 is upon us.  In any market, sustainable high performance requires a sharp focus on strategy execution. The evidence is clear:

• 73% of companies that outperform their peers have a formal process for communicating strategy to employees. (2006 Balanced Scorecard Collaborative Survey)
• Strategy execution is the #1 concern of CEOs worldwide.
  (The Conference Board, 2007 CEO Challenge)
• Only 12% of companies successfully execute their strategy.
  (Balanced Scorecard Collaborative and Cognos joint study, 2006)

Is your organization ready to put strategy into action in 2009? More important, are you integrating strategy and operations to create sustainable breakthrough performance?

LMI has a proven process to help you succeed in any market.