Four Questions to Spotlight Your Company's Needs

Jack Stack and the Great Game of Business start with four questions:

1. As smart, talented and well educated as they are in their specialties, how well do your employees understand cash flow, profit, how your business makes money, and how they can help it make more?

2. How strongly do they personally work to achieve business objectives and the critical numbers?

3. How well do they know the rules of the game of business?

4. How well do they follow the action, keep score, and work together to win against the competition?

These questions get the ball rolling in a way everyone can appreciate.

Every company is unique and best characterized by the players themselves.

Don't over complicate it. Get started and learn. Identify needs, prioritize them, and keep improving things.

As momentum increases, you'll figure out even better ways to improve your most important knowledge/skill base to improve profit, cash flow, and market value.