Strategy work involves setting goals, identifying a mission, forging strategic intent. It's usually all about outcomes. And yet in spite of this focus on outcomes, it's often the integrity of the process that ensures success. And frequently, when the focus is on process, stated goals are exceeded. Process is about consistency, about economy, about replication, about all the little things that go into making the big things possible.

In planning for your future, ask yourself if you have, or can build, sound processes that will make your plans more real and more rewarding.