Tampa Ceo Forum

Jim Muehlhausen is the author of The 51 Fatal Business Errors: And How to Avoid Them, a book Kurt highly recommends as a go-to resource guide for leaders of organizations. Kurt and Jim discuss how Jim came to write the book, what the book does for business owners, and, for those who want face-to-face help, how belonging to a CEO peer group can support your small business or nonprofit organization.   Key Takeaways: [2:09] Jim started as a business owner and a consultant. He learned slow, expensive lessons, and noticed patterns in business problems. There are best practices for most processes, but they haven't been passed along from one person to another; Jim does that with this book. [3:41] Jim talks about salestrepreneurs, and the business model issues they create. As a business owner, you need to hire a salesperson, not be the salesperson. [4:58] It's very difficult to delegate some of the work of a business owner. Jim has a 98-2 delegation model. 2% cannot be delegated, but 98% can. The business owner