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Trucker Management: Driving Your Small Business to Success, 677 pages soft cover

What is "Trucker Management"?
Trucker Management is an innovative, comprehensive approach to running any small business. It enables busy entrepreneurs to efficiently address both the small daily details and the long-term considerations of their businesses simultaneously.

Trucker Management offers easy-to-implement routines and provides specific, practical tools to help small business owners "drive" their businesses towards success. These resources are modeled from the long-established tools and proven practices used by truckers to safely and effectively drive their rigs to their destinations.

Why use truckers' tools?
The responsibilities borne by truckers are very similar to those accepted by entrepreneurs in deciding to start their own business.    Both professionals are charged with overseeing complex machines, with many interdependent components, through busy and uncertain environments.  But perhaps the greatest similarity is in the shared demand for constant attention and focus.  Neither one can allow their concentration to lapse even for an instance, else there be dire consequences for all those around them.  Given these many parallels, there ought to be some inherent transferability in the practices through which each can best fulfill their responsibilities.

To aid a trucker in maintaining that constant attention and successfully reach their destination, they have at their disposal a set of established practices and tools that allow them to efficiently be prepared for each day’s journey, to provide them with constant and relevant information while underway, and to utilize the mechanisms with which to change direction, speed, etc.. Trucker Management similarly allows a small business owner to maintain their focus and achieve success by establishing comparable practices such that entrepreneurs are equally prepared for each day, receive constant and relevant information while operating, and are able to implement change, all in an efficient and understandable manner.

Who should use Trucker Management?
Trucker Management is an approach that can be implemented by any small business owner to aid them in better decisions and operations.  Perhaps the most benefit will accrue to existing entrepreneurs who have been operating for less than two years, and who are at that awkward stage of examining growth, finding operational efficiencies, and ensuring they remain relevant and competitive in the long-term.

Would-be entrepreneurs can also benefit from learning about the tools and practices used by Trucker Management, as they examine the possibilities of entrepreneurship and design the operations of future businesses.  Building a small business management plan to incorporate the elements of Trucker Management can help enhance its chances of success by making the routines and ideas contained here inherent in the operation of their business from day one.

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