The best plan is only a plan... unless it degerates into work.

When the business grows, the person who founded it is incredibly busy. Rapid growth puts an enormous strain on a business. You outgrow your production facilities. You outgrow your management capabilities.

Businesses once grew by one of two ways; grass roots up, or by acquisition... Today businesses grow through alliances - all kinds of dangerous alliances. Joint ventures and customer partnerings which, by the way, very few people understand.

What managers decide to stop doing is often more important than what they decide to do.

To make knowledge productive, we will have to learn to see both forest and tree. We will have to learn to connect.

Entrepreneurs believe that profit is what matters most in a new enterprise. But profit is secondary. Cash flow matters most.

By themselves, character and integrity do not accomplish anything. But their absence faults everything else.