Should Hope Be Your Strategy For Success

On several occasions I have been in a meeting with clients and/or colleagues who defined their execution plan using the words hope or hopefully .  From my perspective hope really shouldn't be part of your strategy  for success.  Instead, I believe a person should be clearly articulating the objectives, deliverables, scope and change management plan that will be used to execute on the project.  Having an effectively planned strategy will allow a person to deliver a project without using words like hope or hopefully. 

What are your thoughts on hope as a strategy?

You Can't Make Everyone Happy

Several years ago I learned a valuable lesson which is that you can't make everybody happy. Now that doesn't mean that I go through my days looking to disappoint others, rather I know that at the end of the day someone will not be happy with the actions that I have taken or result that I provided them. Personally I have found that if you can go about your day without worrying about the little things you will be more successful in meeting expectations of the big picture.


What are your thoughts on this topic? Do you wake up in the morning knowing that you are going disappoint someone? How do you rest at the end of the day knowing that you may have failed to meet someones expectations?