The Hard Facts: Only Half Survive

From Gary Harpst & Six Disciplines:

We are currently experiencing the largest entrepreneurial surge that the United States has ever seen. According to U.S. Small Business Administration projections, nearly 672,000 small businesses were created in 2005. However, less than half of these businesses will survive at least four years. In order for these businesses to thrive, and survive, they must be on the forefront of innovation and effectiveness.

Enter the Six Disciplines Corporation, which helps struggling small and mid-sized businesses achieve new levels of success by implementing into their daily business routine six steps that integrate the business-building elements of strategy, planning, organizing, executing, measuring and learning, while offering a systematic way for these businesses to continually improve and achieve lasting business excellence.

CEO and founder of the Six Disciplines Corporation, Gary Harpst, details this program in his new book Six Disciplines for Excellence: Building Small Businesses that Learn, Lead and Last (Synergy Books, April 2007), which reveals the six fundamental business disciplines specifically designed to help small and mid-sized businesses move beyond momentary success to enduring excellence. The book also explains how the Six Disciplines program, which is the first sustainable program for business excellence that is optimized for small and mid-sized businesses, has improved functionality, morale and all-around profitability within the companies they've worked with. Readers of Six Disciplines for Excellence will learn how to:

-Help their employees execute more consistently toward their company's strategy

-Stay aligned with the organization's goals

-Continually improve business processes - with the goal of achieving lasting excellence

-Eliminate the barriers that prevent organizations from effectively executing their strategy, while creating a new culture of effective work habits and focused business processes

For more information about Harpst and Six Disciples for Excellence, visit www.sixdisciplines.com.