Profiting from the successes and failures of others is the best way to avoid pitfalls as you build your own lucrative enterprise. Bill Matthews' Don't Step in the Entremanure: Tiptoe Your Way to Entrepreneurial Success distills time-tested wisdom that will help you guide your business toward enduring prosperity. Matthews poses thirty-two questions that will help you determine the general health of your company and also offers a wide range of advice based on real-world examples of outstanding management. Each Chapter focuses on a specific theme, including:
- Ensuring you have the capital to sustain your business
- Hiring the right people at the outset
- Making tough personnel decisions
- Holding yourself, and others, accountable
- The importance of having a written plan and written job descriptions
- Why it is crucially important to set up an outside board