Business Planning is IMPORTANT, it's been BROKEN, It's EASY and it can be FAST! FOCUS31 guarantees it! In this segment FOCUS31 identifies the 5 reasons business ownes need to plan. We've discussed previously the 5 reasons why, as business owners, we don't Business Plan. Basically, Business Planning has been BROKEN. But at the same time Business Planning is IMPORTANT. Why? Well there are 5 reasons: -Wouldn't any business owner want to clarify and achieve the future they believe in? -Wouldn't any business owner want to make better quality decisions and reap greater financial rewards from those decisions? -Wouldn't any business owner want to focus on the major few not always the minor many priorities and actually advance and improve their business? -Wouldn't any business owner want to be a great strategist as well as a great tactician as we all are learned from day to day fire fighting? -Finally, wouldn't any business owner want to have a business based on continuous improvement. And here is Bonus Reason ...Peter Drucker said to. Well actually Peter Drucker said that Profit is the benchmark of success in business. But it is well recognized that planned revenues will be greater then unplanned revenues and planned expenses will be less than unplanned expenses and so planned profit will be greater than unplanned profit. So if Profit is the benchmark of success than Peter Drcuker is telling us to engage in Business Planning. Learn how to engage in effective Business Planning with FOCUS31. Email james@focus31.com.