The Definitive Business Plan: The fast-track to intelligent business planning for executives and entrepreneurs, Second Edition

Chapter 13. Now make it happen

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• Time for a break?

• From plan to reality

• A change of focus

• Communicating the plan

• Where do you draw the line?

• Policies, rules and procedures

• Who does what?

• Employee objectives

• How much freedom?

• Financial objectives

• Monitoring other objectives

• Monitoring the world

• Confirming and revising strategy and plans

• Don’t forget the carrots

• And into the next business plan

• Trying to catch the tail

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	“Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.”
	--Hazlitt

The journey through the business plan is now complete. You have a sparkling new plan with all the required approvals and funding. So where is it that you have arrived? Only at the starting point. You are embarking on a new era. You have a new or revitalized business ...