Step #10 - Manage or be managed . . . The last of the steps is also the one I consider most important: the reminder that in business, as...

Step #9 - Think about the end game . . . Corporations technically exist into perpetuity; human beings do not. And though we’d like to...

Step #8 - Mold and nurture your organization's culture . . . Like thumbprints that are unique to each individual, similarly, each...

Step #7 - Focus on what you do best. . . We’re all familiar with William Shatner, the sometimes bombastic personality - legendary Captain...

Step #6 - Win with a "team". . . There’s a story about the legendary college football coach, Lou Holtz, when in 1986 he took over a...

Step 5 - The right people . . . When business activity increases, it often means there’s more work to do than the number of people on...

Step #4 - Plan for contingencies . . . Over the years I’ve had the opportunity to see many multi-year projections and financial models. ...

Step #3 - Systems and processes . . .There’s an order to the universe, and it’s this structure that prevents us as human beings from...

Step #2 - Figure out where you’re going . . . There was cover line on a magazine that I once saw that said, “Planning? Who the hell has...

Step #1 - Know where you are. . . Have you ever been lost in a large and sprawling mall in search of the “you are here” dot on the map?...