What’s the difference between an excuse and an explanation?

Coach Mi Definition: Explanation – A reason for why something happened.  A process to help the listener understand. Excuse – An attempt at an explanation, but with the aim of absolving self or others from responsibility. Do you offer explanations or excuses?  To the listener, an excuse usually has a hollowness to it, a lack of believability.  So if you’re not …

Why bother with a business plan?

Does it really matter? Don’t many businesses survive without one anyway? “Survive” is probably the key word in this discussion. If that’s all you want to do, sure, you probably won’t need a business plan. What’s the big deal anyway?  The “deal” gets bigger the more you want to achieve out of your business.  In simplest terms, a business plan is a road map which …