PRAISE FOR VISIONARY BUSINESS
This breakthrough book can show you not only how to envision and create success, but also how to build a truly visionary business, one that supports its employees and even the community and the environment....Visionary Business will prove to be a significant book for the twenty-first century.
The Real Entrepreneur
Offers valuable insights to any new entrepreneur....Allens central message is this: being a visionary goes beyond minding the bottom line; it is possible to pursue ones true dreams and cultivate a successful business.
Whole Life Times
Inspiration and insights for entrepreneurs everywhere. Every so often a book comes along that really changes the way you think about business.
Working Solo
Marc Allens business experience and humor shine through his guide to entrepreneurial success, lighting a way for all who seek the joy and challenge of independence.
Nancy Anderson, author of Work with Passion
An inspiring book about business by someone who truly walks the talk.
Carol Orsborn, author of The Art of Resilience
I love Visionary Business! It anecdotally makes the hard essence of business palatable to non-businesspeople (like me)....The book heralds a paradigm shift for the new century: Its not the story of the rugged individual anymore we are all in this together. Its an excellent book on the soul of business.
Joe Durepos, former manager, Andersons Bookshops, Chicago
PRAISE FOR MARC ALLENS
THE MILLIONAIRE COURSE
The world needs you to fulfill your financial potential and become a compassionate giver and make-it-happen millionaire. My friend Marc Allen teaches you how to become an enlightened millionaire. I love his brilliant insights.
Mark Victor Hansen,
co-creator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series
Marc Allen is now reaching a wide range of people who are serious about positively changing their lives and the world.... The book is filled with practical wisdom that can help you create a fulfilled life.
Shakti Gawain, author of Creative Visualization
PRAISE FOR MARC ALLENS
THE GREATEST SECRET OF ALL
The Greatest Secret of All is a wonderful contribution to humanity. It sounds a new note that has universal resonance, and gives us the key to a life well lived.
Gay Hendricks, author of Conscious Loving and Five Wishes
Few teachers get my attention like Marc Allen....He takes lofty success principles and brings them to earth in simple yet compelling ways. I have tried the principles he suggests in this book, and they really work. They will work for you, too. Success books dont get any easier than this or more effective.
Alan Cohen, author of Relax into Wealth
There are no secrets, but there are things we cannot or will not see and accept because of our life experience. This book can help you to see what is no secret but what has remained hidden from your awareness, and the result will be to profoundly change your life.
Dr. Bernie S. Siegel, author of
Love, Medicine and Miracles and 365 Prescriptions for the Soul
VISIONARY
BUSINESS
ALSO BY MARC ALLEN
BOOKS
The Greatest Secret of All:
Moving Beyond Abundance to a Life of True Fulfillment
The Millionaire Course:
A Visionary Plan for Creating the Life of Your Dreams
The Type-Z Guide to Success:
A Lazy Persons Manifesto for Wealth and Fulfillment
A Visionary Life:
Conversations on Personal and Planetary Evolution
The Ten Percent Solution:
Simple Steps to Improving Our Lives and Our World
A Two-Second Love Affair (Poetry)
SPOKEN WORD AUDIO
The Greatest Secret of All (2 CDs)
Stress Reduction and Creative Meditations (1 CD)
The Millionaire Course Seminar (3-CD set)
The Success with Ease Course (12-CD set with workbook)
MUSIC
Awakening
Solo Flight
Quiet Moments
Breathe
Petals
VISIONARY
BUSINESS
An Entrepreneurs Guide to Success
REVISED EDITION
MARC ALLEN
NEW WORLD LIBRARY
NOVATO, CALIFORNIA
Copyright 1995, 2009 by Marc Allen
All rights reserved. This book may not be reproduced in whole or in part, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, or other without written permission from the publisher, except by a reviewer, who may quote brief passages in a review.
Edited by Gina Misiroglu, Paula Dragosh, and Kristen Cashman
Text design by Tona Pearce Myers
Cover design by Mary Ann Casler
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Allen, Marc.
Visionary business : an entrepreneurs guide to success / Marc Allen.
Rev. ed.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-1-57731-662-6 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Success in business. 2. Entrepreneurship. 3. Management. I. Title.
HF5386.A535 2008
658.4'09dc22
2008053607
First printing, April 2009
ISBN 978-1-57731-662-6
Printed in the United States on 30% postconsumer-waste recycled paper
New World Library is a proud member of the Green Press Initiative.
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Dedicated to all those who dare to dream,
and all those who have the knowledge, generosity,
and heart to support others in reaching their dreams.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that, but the really great
make you feel that you, too,
can somehow become great.
MARK TWAIN
CONTENTS
THE KEYS OF VISIONARY BUSINESS
Write your business plan as a simple,
clear visualization.
See the benefits within adversity,
the opportunities in your problems,
and keep picturing success.
Plan your work and work your plan;
the employee handbook, benefits,
and profit sharing.
Avoid management by crisis;
make a clear annual goal.
Love change, learn to dance,
and leave J. Edgar Hoover behind.
Reflect on the events that have shaped your life
and discover the core beliefs you have created
for yourself because of those events.