Peter Cleveland's latest book, 50 Steps to Business Success: Entrepreneurial Leadership in Manageable Bites, offers a systematic approach to leading a successful business. It's designed to bring order to a life that tends naturally toward chaos and, sometimes, even fear. Reaching deep into the experience of leaders of successful companies, it truly captures the heart and soul of every successful business. Each chapter reveals a series of sound business practices, or "manageable bites," each a stepping stone for the next and each dependent upon the other. The bites are proven truisms that guide the planning and leadership of a successful business. When they are applied with patience, discipline, consistency, and ethics, these proven practices pave the way to business success, one step at a time. More than that, they help to eliminate the panic that can be fatal to any business. Patience becomes the guide, manageable bites the discipline, and panic the victim of 50 Steps to Business Success.

Successful leadership is founded on passionate vision, and that's where this book begins, followed by steps revealing time-tested keys to planning, people, revenue, products, service delivery, and financial stability. Techniques for eliminating barriers to profitable growth, change management, and business process improvement are explained and demonstrated as integral parts of success culture. Through it all, customer satisfaction is the successful leader's primary focus.

All steps lead to annual leadership reviews - the process of planning the leadership necessary for the next level of success. Add a code of ethics, a healthy dose of patience, and very clear communication, and you have 50 Steps to Business Success: Entrepreneurial Leadership in Manageable Bites.