Like most business owners, you are concerned primarily with running your day-to-day operations and growing your business-oftentimes, planning for your retirement may be secondary. According to a study of small business owners, less than half (47 percent) of the business owners surveyed had a way to save for retirement that was set up through their business. Twenty-eight percent were not saving at all!
Risk Management that Measures Up
We live in a measurement-focused society: how many; how far; how fast; how much more, or less, than last year.
Popular thought often asserts that if it's not measurable, it's not a worthwhile goal. How can you justify spending time and money on something you cannot prove or quantify? On the surface, that may not be easy, but consider the following:
In a society focused on measurements, realize that you will rarely know, or be able to measure, those catastrophic events that did not occur due to the execution of good, consistent risk management practices.
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