50 Steps to Business Success

The reader will find this book easier to digest and derive the greatest benefit if each chapter is viewed as a building block toward total leadership. Figure 1.0 depicts this process as a never-ending leadership assessment through planning, goal achievement, and executing action plans for every area of the business.

Leadership is an ever-strengthening process. From the completion of this annual activity conies knowledge that will strengthen leadership in the next cycle. Actual leadership cases are summarized and interpreted for each manageable bite, and referenced in the Appendix. This book is intended as a reference for your leadership issues as they arise — not as a one-time read.