Have you ever said to your spouse or a good friend, “Boy, I wish I could spend more time enjoying the sense of accomplishment I should be getting from my business? I hardly have time to get all the stuff done that’s need every day – forget about being able to free up some time to grow and better managing my business?

Worse yet, my spouse just doesn’t understand how hard it is. It’s getting tougher and tougher to get it all done. And I’m falling behind in building my business because I’m just “too busy”!

OK – you’re busy! Busy doing what? Reacting to events? Getting buried in work because you never seem to be able to “keep up”? Do you think there might be something wrong with this picture?

Can you imagine anything worse in business today than to have internal operating/sales-marketing or financial management systems in place that everyone knows and understands, and can use? Yes, the kind of systems that helps make the company more efficient and better able to compete (smile)? What a thought. Probably, almost immediately, you’d start to think [...]