In this presentation, Chuck Violand addresses the critical importance for small business owners to draft a business plan to help ensure that the future they end up with is the one they wanted. Or, as Peter Drucker is credited with saying, “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” The presentation begins with five typical reasons business owners give for NOT planning, and then offers one compelling reason TO plan. Chuck then walks through a five-step “thumbnail” business planning exercise that anyone can use to draft a basic business plan for their company. Presented December 2020