InhaltsangabeGreat businesses start small and become successful due to the vision, courage, and tenacity of the entrepreneurs who conceive and build them. Turning your business into a first-rate, reliable generator of profitable growth year after year takes creative positioning, winning tactics, and effective tools you could easily learn from successful Fortune 100 companies if they'd only share them with you. In Run Your Business Like a Fortune 100, Rosalie Lober discloses seven business-boosting principles and a wealth of best practices from the world's biggest and best companies and applies them to growing businesses in over twenty industries. Those big businesses you admire were once much smaller, and their strategies and tactics will help you prosper too. When you're an entrepreneur, nearly every decision you make can lead to major financial and operational consequences. The risks you take have to be smart ones. Your decisions must be good ones. Make your move, learn the secret formula, and begin today to Run Your Business Like a Fortune 100. Implement these proven principles to get and stay on track for peak profitability, while avoiding all the traps that can drain the life out of your growing company. The principles and tools in this book guide you in facing tough realities and discovering flexible, appropriate responses. From simplifying your supply chain to expanding your distribution channels to adding customers and markets--Run Your Business Like a Fortune 100 provides tools and solutions for engaging existing clients and attracting new ones, streamlining your business, increasing productivity, and fortifying profitable growth. No matter what you sell or what services you provide, you increase the odds of winning more customers and bigger profits by learning from the successes and mistakes of other businesses. If your goal is sustainable and profitable growth, it's time to learn to Run Your Business Like a Fortune 100.

ROSALIE LOBER, PHD, is President of Lober Associates, specializing in designing and implementing business practices to increase sustainable profitability for companies of all sizes. Her experience encompasses more than twenty years in senior management at Bloomberg Financial Markets and Media, Venator Group, and Citibank; consulting for NASDAQ, Combustion Engineering, FDIC, the New York Times, Linens ''N Things, and GE, among others; and teaching at universities such as Cornell, Fairfield, Hofstra, and New York University.

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