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?...