Chapter Highlights | 10-18
Chapter 10: Plotting Your Course with Strategic Planning
“You have to develop a road map that will take you where you want to go.”
Chapter 11: Implementation: Making it Happen
“You can make all the plans you want, brilliant or simple, and unless they are executed well—and consistently—they won’t make a bit of difference in your business.”
Chapter 12: Forecasting and Budgeting
“It’s very easy to forecast yourself into trouble because most entrepreneurs are optimistic by nature.”
Chapter 13: Using Your Financial Statement to Get You Where You Want to Go
“Your monthly financial statements should be the GPS for your business.”
Chapter 14: You Can, Too, Argue with Success!
“And the time to do it is when you are successful, when you have the luxury of time and resources to become even more successful.”
Chapter 15: Building a Great Corporate Culture
“A corporate culture can just happen—or you can make it happen.”
Chapter 16: Shaping a Winning Organization
“With the right people, it’s the best of times; business can be fun and exciting with the burdens, ideas, and knowledge shared.”
Chapter 17: Who Controls Your Life?
“We’ve all felt it: life feels like it is spinning out of control. There’s too much to do and not enough time to do it all.”
Chapter 18: Easing the Burden
“I often used to say that I got paid for about 10 percent of my time. What I did with the other 90 percent, others could have done as well or even better.”