The following is a collection of miscellaneous thoughts and ideas accumulated over 30 years of business consulting; possibly they will prove helpful to you:
• No sane person purposefully drives off a cliff. Unless they are crazy, most folks don’t purposely drive off a cliff. Not monitoring the numbers and looking at simple financial benchmarks causes many businesses to in effect drive off a hidden cliff and destroy their business. You can’t run a business in the fog. Failure to look at weekly job costing and monthly financial statements is like driving around in the dark. Once your momentum reaches a certain point, trying to stop that car before it goes off the cliff is impossible.