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I too encourage you to work “for yourself.” Start your own business, work on commission, get a percentage of revenue or company profits, or get stock options.

“I’d like to go back over this again because I’m not sure I’ve got it. “What you’re saying is that I need to create an Organization Chart for All About Pies as it will look when it’s done, seven years from now, rather than the way it is now?” “Yes,” I responded. “And that once I’ve created that Organization Chart, I need to put my name in all the p

So if your business is to change—as it must continuously to thrive—you must change first. If you are unwilling to change, your business will never be capable of giving you what you want. The first change that needs to take place has to do with your idea of what a business really is and what it takes to make one work.

IBM is what it is today for three special reasons. The first reason is that, at the very beginning, I had a very clear picture of what the company would look like when it was finally done. You might say I had a model in my mind of what it would look like when the dream—my vision—was in place. The second reason was that once I had that picture, I th

Now you understand the task ahead: to think of your business as though it were the prototype for 5,000 more just like it.