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It's not a how-to book per se, yet it tells you how to do so many things! Hiring and firing, for instance; reading people; identifying nonproducers; cutting expenses; knowing what your customers need; and, most of all, growing your business. It doesn't tell you how to start a business, yet listening to it will make doing that so much easier. It doesn't tell you how to run one, but even if you've been a COO for 30 years, you'll find new wisdom in it. It's not a blueprint; it's more like a bag of missing puzzle pieces - the puzzle being the day-to-day job of making your business lean and profitable.

It's worded in the bite-size chunks made famous by executive summaries, perfect for business owners and managers with far too much on their plates - you can eat on the run, so to speak, and take in as much or as little as you can handle at a time. You'll find yourself listening again and again.

You need this book now if you're:

• An entrepreneur
• A manager
• A future entrepreneur or manager
• The owner (or aspiring owner) of a start-up
• Even vaguely thinking of starting a company
• The COO of a mature company with a lifetime of experience