Chapter 18

WISDOM AND MASTERY IN BUSINESS

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WHAT DO WISDOM, faith, and mastery have to do with small business? If you’ve gleaned anything from the preceding chapters, you know at least one thing: taking the qualitative growth, big-vision small-business path can be very challenging and thus requires inspiration, faith, mastery, and wisdom—sometimes in very large doses.

While life as an employee includes the more trying moments that can broaden perspective, wisdom, and skillfulness, someone else ultimately holds the responsibility for ensuring that the business remains viable (and for seeing that the garbage cans get emptied). A small-business owner, ...

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