In a recent article, "What does it take to succeed in business?" my CEDF colleague, Frederick Welk, compared five business disciplines related to measurement and management of results that, in his experience, were important for profitability to more mental characteristics. He asked:
But what about the business owners that seem to succeed despite their apparent aversion to current bookkeeping, budgets or performance gauges or interest in studying the others in their industry? And their relati...