Explains how to take a business to the next level of profitability with a focused strategy that emphasizes four stages of entrepreneurial growth, revealing how to develop new products out of old ones, and devise and integrate innovative operational procedures

"When it comes to how to succeed as an entrepreneur, we are besotted with advice. According to bestselling author Alan Weiss, success is a combination of opportunism, very disciplined work, luck, timing, and ignoring most advice. In other words, it means striking out on your own, original path...