Keeping an eye on the prize is something that many business owners tend to forget about, thinking about today instead of what will happen tomorrow. Sam Allman looks at how a lack of vision can affect a business' success.
Bill Brooks and Tom Travisano, authors of “You’re Working Too Hard to Make the Sale,” articulated a profound insight that bears quoting here. “If there is a fact about entrepreneurial decision makers that rings true, it’s that they’re almost unemployable,” they wrote. “Entrepreneurs are resentful toward any form of authority exerted over them. They lack the single characteristic every employee must have: being willing to obey the orders of a superior even when you think the superior is wrong.”