Let’s say I gave you $100,000 to grow your business. You go to dinner to celebrate your great windfall and then the next morning you’re at your desk, admiring the check.
Here’s my question: Would you know what to do with it, first, second, and third for the greatest impact? $100,000 sounds like a lot of money especially if you’re the typical contracting company which is at $2 million a year or less, and sometimes way less. But it’s also an amount that can disappear remarkably quickly unless you have a plan and use the money to execute that plan.
The other thing I know is that some problems aren’t really money problems. The problem is some people would only have fallen deeper down the hole if they had gotten a hundred thousand dollars.
Why?
They were lacking Planning Power, which means a plan on which projects to work on. They didn’t have systems like Operating Power (today it’s my Signature Operating Manuals System program) so they threw people at the problem hoping they’d magically make everything work right.
If I did give you 100,000 dollars, you would need systems to help you know how to spend money on the right things in the right way.