August 15, 2008



    What? You haven’t mapped out your career already? Don’t worry just yet. You’re still in the majority, but you shouldn’t stay there for very long. More and more individuals, and companies, are making career mapping part of the picture. Whether for development purposes or as part of an organizational succession planning process they are finding that involving the employees rather than simply relying on a few individuals in management has its benefits.

    Making decisions as a leader means relying on equal parts data and gut instinct.
    Failing decisions are rarely the fault of poor cognitive ability, but rather because of a poor process to reaching decisions. Gathering and disseminating the information that allows for informed decisions needs to be done with skill.

    Our expert author this week is Jim Horan, President and CEO of the One Page Business Plan Company and author of The One Page Business Plan … the best selling business planning book on Amazon.com. He is also the developer of The One Page Planning and Performance System.

    The Age Curve isn't a sales and marketing book, it's a profit opportunity awareness book – and it might be the most important thing you read in the next five years.