CHAPTER 13:
Take Action Now! - or Never!
- Get off your dead ass NOW!
- My Final Words
"If you don't take action to begin your Quantum Leap within 21 hours after finishing this book, you never will!"
CHAPTER 12:
Your Grand Exit - Dying or Selling
- Pay Yourself First!
- How Much is Your Company Worth?
- Puffing Up the Hog to Take to the Fair
- Timing - The Search for the Perfect Wave
- A Clean House Brings A Higher Price
- Shoring Up Your Organization Structure
- A Credible Board of Directors
- Corporate Literature
- Clean Financials
- Stable Long-term Contracts
- Cleaning Up Your Paperwork
- Information and Financial Control Systems
- The Transition Management Team
- Lawsuits in Progress
- Structuring Your Deal
- The S Corporation
"Some long for the glories of this world; and some sigh for the Prophet's Paradise to come. Ah, take the cash and let the promise go..."
CHAPTER 11:
Acquisitions – The Secret of Quantum Growth
(Part 2)
- Selling the Seller on You (Segment 2)
- Doing Your Pre-Purchase Homework
- The Second Acquisition - Not A Carbon Copy!
“For the high performer, arithmetic growth in unacceptable. Geometric exponential growth is demanded.”
CHAPTER 11:
Acquisitions – The Secret of Quantum Growth
(Part 1)
- Geometric Exponential Growth
- The Perils of the Leap
- How to Find Your First Acquisition
- Conducting Your Search
- Selling the Seller on You (Segment 1)
“For the high performer, arithmetic growth in unacceptable. Geometric exponential growth is demanded.”
CHAPTER 10:
More Capital Ideas for Financing Your Deal
(Part 2)
- Corporate Bonds - the IOU's of Business
- Other Sources of Capital
- Public Versus Private Funding
- Questions I Am Always Asked About Raising Capital
- Stop Writing Checks on Your Emotional Bank Account!
"The business community offers a universe of funding sources - but not one will ever come to you."
CHAPTER 10:
More Capital Ideas for Financing Your Deal
(Part 1)
- When to Begin Meeting with Bankers
- The Value of Your Board of Directors
- Using Your Banking Business as Leverage
- Types of Finance and Capital
- The Care and Feeding of your Banking Relationship
- Receivable Financing
- Debt Financing VS Equity Financing
"The business community offers a universe of funding sources - but not one will ever come to you."
CHAPTER 9:
Offering Lenders the Chance to Finance Your Dream
(Part 2)
- Capital Finances Quantum Leaps – Not Pussyfooting!
- Locating Your Financial Partner
- How to Deal with Financial Institutions
- The Omnipotent Business Plan
- What Your Banker Wants to Hear – Most of All, Loud and Clear
- What You NEVER Tell Your Banker
“Borrowing money from a bank is like having sex. You both want it, but they need reassurance of your intentions – and foreplay.”
CHAPTER 9:
Offering Lenders the Chance to Finance Your Dream
(Part 1)
- Capital Finances Quantum Leaps – Not Pussyfooting!
- Locating Your Financial Partner
- How to Deal with Financial Institutions
- The Omnipotent Business Plan
- What Your Banker Wants to Hear – Most of All, Loud and Clear
- What You NEVER Tell Your Banker
“Borrowing money from a bank is like having sex. You both want it, but they need reassurance of your intentions – and foreplay.”
CHAPTER 8: The Plan With No Escape
- You must act as if failure is not an option
- Facing death, the cornered animal is the fiercest
- Strategy and Structure - and Which Comes First
- Thriving in Conflict
- Winning on Your Turf, on Your Terms
- Never make an empty promise or an idle threat
"The leader who anticipates the failure of a bold plan, and prepares for it ... will fail."
CHAPTER 7: 11 Steps That Make The Deal
- Being careful doesn't mean moving slow any more than taking immediate action means you have to rush in unprepared and do something stupid
- Step 1: Identify the Idea
- Step 2: Investigate Generalities
- Step 3: Investigate Specifics
- Step 4: Commitment to the Idea
- Step 5: The Preliminary Decision
- Step 6: Investigation Continues
- Step 7: Formulate Your Action Plan
- Step 8: Establish Your Critical Path
- Step 9: Implementation and Follow-up
- Step 10: Execution
- Step 11: Re-evaluation of Monitoring Process
"You can leapfrog to Quantum success but you still have to do the deals one sure-footed step at a time."
CHAPTER 6: Creating Your Dream Team (Part 2)
- Partners and Staff
- Kissing Frogs
"The first method for estimating tthe intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him." ~ Niccolo Machiavelli
CHAPTER 6: Creating Your Dream Team (Part 1)
- No matter how good you are, you can't do it alone
- Your Board of Directors
- Retaining the Right Professionals - For the Right Price
- Your Mission Statement
"The first method for estimating tthe intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him." ~ Niccolo Machiavelli
CHAPTER 5: Building Perception to Become Reality
- Illusion is one of the skills of leadership
- You're damn right!
- The point is, this kid created the instant perception of a goofy, worthless doofus - which was real enough for you to believe in!
"Super success begins with your masterful illusion that it already exists."
CHAPTER 4: Getting Comfortable with High Performance
- Expand Your Comfort Zone
- Being a high performance super success is a learned behavior
- The super successful operate in a different atmosphere than most people
- Clarify your vision
- The 5 Credos of Success
- Mastermind Networks: Synergy or Silliness?
- Mentor's A Quantum Leap in Wisdom
"Success can be as frightening as failure. Begin preparing now for the new style and tempo of life which will come with success."
CHAPTER 3: Conventional Wisdom - The Loser's Crutch
- Building Your Personal Foundation
- It Doesn't Matter What the Morons Say
- New Habits, New Companions
- Taking Important Decisions
- Keep Your Eye on the Vision and You Won't See the Obstacles
- A High Performer is Passionate!
- The Strength of Self-Confidence and Self Regard
"Do business the way it's usually done, if you're satisfied making the usual money the usual morons do."
CHAPTER 2: From the Barrio to the Castle
- Begin with Expectations of Super Success
- Create Order from Chaos ... And Make A Killing
- The Beauties of a Joint Venture: Other People's Money and Other People
"If you aren't prepared to die for your dreams, you aren't prepared to live for them."
CONTENT
A) Dedication
B) Prologue
C) Foreword
D) Introduction
E) CHAPTER 1: Super Success - Not For The Touchy-Feely
- The Seminar Crowd - Perpetrators of the Big Lie
- Paying the Price for Super Success
- Take Some Risks
- Understand Failure
- Use Your Intuition
- Intuition is Almost Always Right!
- Never Look Back
"Super success is not for the wishy washy. Victory in business, like war, comes to the toughest son-of-a-bitch in the valley."