A Goal Is a Dream with a Deadline

by Leo B. Helzel

Business readers who enjoyed Life's Little Instruction Book will welcome this personal guide to getting more out of business and life. Designed to be read quickly and savored long after, this... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0070282625
• ISBN13: 9780070282629
• Release Date: September 1995
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Trade
• Length: 197 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.7" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Balance your strategy with a spice of wisdom

43 yo (and getting better) beginer enterpreneur- I laughed at the comments made by a reviewer as he classified this book as bathroom reading, Ha! He is right on that, but that does not make the book any less effective than it is. This should not be your only book on enterpreneurship, yet this is a ideal book for being in there for the wisdom is given by those who have been there, and they tell it has it is. "Enterpreneurship is like parenting. if you wait until everything is right, you'll never get started". This always hitted me where it hurts, the analogy is not totally accurate for sometimes (and just because nature cannot wait for the "right" time), parenting sometimes is bestowed on you, rather than a "rational choise".. but for enterpreneurship, the hardest part is beggining and the 2nd hardest, to see that "The driving principle of business is CFN- Cash Flow Now!"

Deceptively Simple

I founded my own company over ten years ago, and could have saved myself a lot of trouble over the years if I had understood then, the wisdom contained in this deceptively simple book. I've recommended this book to many other entrepreneurs, and used it as one of the texts when I taught briefly at University. The sayings seem simple and can be understood immediately by a novice entrepreneur. At the same time, experienced business people will recognize that only a tremedous depth of experience could produce such simplicity. In the case of this book, the depth of experience comes from dozens of CEOs and seasoned business people, in addition to the author, Leo Helzel, who is properly considered a Master of Entrepreneurship. What else can I say? Buy the book and see for yourself.

A goal is a dream with a deadline

A wonderful and refreshing view of business guidlines simply stated with the common sense thought process in place, and a bit of humor to boot. I have given many copies of this book to fellow associates and friends over the years. All have enjoyed the reading and many have profited by the experience. It is a book of knowledge and should be read over and over. As a nephew of Leo,I know this book represents his wisdom which he shared with the readers of his book.

Wonderful Book!

This is a wonderful business book with a great deal of insight. I highly recommend reading it!