For those of you that ever thought about being an author let me encourage you as I was encouraged by my mentor, Jim Horan, author of The One Page Business Plan. I started on an adventure that is still not complete. Jim sent me the format he uses for his Executive Briefing, a short, powerful look at how and why the One Page system of planning works.
When I asked him to mentor me through the process he told he would under one condition – “Bring full-on Bart! Don’t hold back. Write it the way you see it and we’ll go from there.” Later he then encouraged me with these words – “Don’t make it perfect, just get it done.”
I followed all of that advice. Here is what I learned while writing “Managing or Mangling – A Brief Plea to Executives for Sanity in Management!”:
