Comments on: Involvement vs. Commitment http://timberry.bplans.com/2007/05/involvement_vs_.html Tim Berry on business planning, starting and growing your business, and having a life in the meantime Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:26:20 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Tim Berry http://timberry.bplans.com/2007/05/involvement_vs_.html/comment-page-1#comment-83668 Tim Berry Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:58:34 +0000 http://timberry.bplans.com/2007/05/involvement_vs_.html#comment-83668 No, that's not what I'm saying, and thanks for asking. I'm saying that the planning process helps commit people in business to doing what they say they are going to do. We're in a specific context in this post: planning process, managing results, and comparing actual results to planned results. And even there, commitment vs. involvement in business doesn't involve death like it does for the pig. The breakfast image is a figure of speech. No, that’s not what I’m saying, and thanks for asking. I’m saying that the planning process helps commit people in business to doing what they say they are going to do. We’re in a specific context in this post: planning process, managing results, and comparing actual results to planned results.

And even there, commitment vs. involvement in business doesn’t involve death like it does for the pig. The breakfast image is a figure of speech.

]]> By: anjen_painter http://timberry.bplans.com/2007/05/involvement_vs_.html/comment-page-1#comment-83640 anjen_painter Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:21:28 +0000 http://timberry.bplans.com/2007/05/involvement_vs_.html#comment-83640 Are you saying that entrepreneurs and business owners are supposed to be as committed to their business as the pig is to breakfast? Are we supposed to sacrifice our lives for the business? Work ourselves to death? Guarantee and then yield up a pound of our very flesh for the company, trading our existence for its? Are you saying that entrepreneurs and business owners are supposed to be as committed to their business as the pig is to breakfast?
Are we supposed to sacrifice our lives for the business? Work ourselves to death? Guarantee and then yield up a pound of our very flesh for the company, trading our existence for its?

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