
A Support System
High performers tend to share one trait in common; they seek experienced mentors and take full advantage of the advice, encouragement, and training their mentors have to offer.
Martin Luther King Jr. had Mahatma Gandhi. John Cusak has Rob Reiner. Plato had Socrates. Henry David Thoreau had Ralph Waldo Emerson. Jim Collins had Peter Drucker.
Who do you have?
A Plan
Do you believe business success is mostly luck and some planning, or mostly planning with some luck? If you believe that good planning leads to luck, you’re half way to success.
What is your plan?

Relevant Knowledge
If you went to one of the big business schools, you’d find business knowledge is roughly the same from place to place. If you are planning to go into middle management at a Fortune 500 company, the way that knowledge is presented will be useful. You might even find a few good classes on entrepreneurship.
But you need business knowledge designed for small business owners.






