CHAPTER 9

Maintain

If you really look closely most overnight successes took a long time.

—Steve Jobs

Maintaining Your Business

Once you build your business, you must constantly use best practices to maintain your effectiveness and grow your capacity. Without time and attention, businesses stagnate. Consider the following to protect your investment:

Risk Management

Constant Process Improvement

Effective Meetings

Risk Management

All plans have risks. Recognizing those risks provides a way to mitigate and plan for a response BEFORE a crisis. Once you know the risks you face, prioritize each and do what you can to mitigate each. In some cases, understanding risks creates new strengths and turns threats into opportunities. Decisions become ...

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