Introduction
In business, the road to success is not short and it is full of obstacles, challenges and challenges.
When starting a business, there are no guaranteed formulas or proven recipes for success, and there are questions that cannot be easily answered.
What is the proper twist? What will be the best location? What is the right time to start? How to find good and reliable collaborators? How to get the necessary equipment and infrastructure? Where and how to get the best financing? Who is the right partner? What contracts have to be signed? ¿What formalities are there to perform? How do you make a business plan? What are and how to use the basic principles of administration? How to increase the productivity and competitiveness of the company? What will be the shortest, least risky, and most productive path to success?
This book aims to answer so many important questions that all business entrepreneurs have.
Its purpose is to contribute to making operational, administrative, accounting and market activities more efficient, as well as to favor the development and growth of companies.
It is a practical guide that provides the knowledge necessary to plan, manage, control and develop a business, regardless of its size.
It is mainly focused on how to analyze and understand the key aspects to start and grow a company.
It aims to provide entrepreneurs with the necessary tools with which they can find out what they want to do with and how they are going to achieve it.
It is clear that applying what is stated here is not easy. But when it is carried out, a rigorous evaluation has to be made to know if the proposed objectives were achieved. If this does not happen, it will be necessary to see the convenience of continuing on the same path or correcting the course and strategy.
This book also gathers the essential elements to understand the business world. In its preparation, the needs and essential details were considered to start and carry out businesses with more possibilities of being successful.
It also contains information on how to start a business, how to develop a business plan, how to use marketing, how to manage and control purchases and inventories, how to coordinate and manage staff, what and which insurance and surety to buy, how to start both the production process such as the handling of accounting and finances.
This book provides some basic computer knowledge, addresses the importance of information systems, how to make organization and procedure manuals, in addition to tracing the profile of the successful entrepreneur and preparing a summary of basic concepts of some theories and techniques about administration.
Finally, it talks about how to manage the executive's time, how to make decisions and how to draw up some contracts and commonly used formats to facilitate the control of the different areas of the company.
It also contains a glossary whose objective is to standardize the interpretation of the most common terminology in the business world.
It is aimed at entrepreneurs and students of administration, accounting, computer science, international trade and industrial engineering and all those interested in knowing how to do business successfully.
Due to the wide variety of topics, I invite you to periodically interrupt your reading and reflect on the recommendations and advice that are made in each of the chapters.
This book is intended to be to business what the baseball rule and advice book means to those who love the sport.
It is important to note that this work is based on the experience of the author who has been, in addition to founder and president of various boards of directors, director, investor, consultant and auditor of a wide variety of companies of different lines and sizes.
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Jack Fleitman:
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