How to Run Your Business So It Doesn't Run You

by Linda Leigh Francis

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0965787907
• ISBN13: 9780965787901
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Borah Press
• Length: 161 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.1" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

Solid, wide-ranging help for the small business owner

I must say I didn't know what to expect when I opened this book. I had found it listed as a recommended reading on The Great Game of Business Web site (www.greatgame.com). But Francis completely won me over with her solid, specific recommendations and common-sense approach to small business management. This book covers a wide range of topics-basic goal-setting, time management, how to use financial analysis to make better management decisions, making planning a regular part of your operations, the benefits of open-book management, developing an organizational structure, hiring and keeping good personnel, disciplining and firing employees the right way, and suggestions for developing a positive attitude about your business and your life. I still don't know how she managed to pack so much information into a relatively short book (161 pages counting the glossary and bibliography), but you'll find numerous nuggets of gold in every single chapter. If I had to recommend one starting point for any small business owner, this book would be it. Although the book would be helpful to any small business owner, owners of construction-related businesses will find it especially useful in virtue of the fact that many of Francis' consulting clients were from that industry.