While entrepreneurs need to be deeply enmeshed in the here and now of their current ventures, they also need a sense of the bigger picture.
Successful entrepreneurs, Sandler explains, are always thinking ahead, planning the future with equal measures of imagination and wisdom.
Her go-to resource for future planning? Strategic coaches. These professionals, as Sandler explains, can help you define your vision.
Sandler herself relies on something else to help crystalize her vision of the future. The BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goal) from "Mastering the Rockefeller Habits" (Gazelles, Inc., 2011) by Verne Harnish, is Sandler's favorite