Source: Sydney Morning Herald.

Most business advisors and business coaches recommend drawing up a business plan, but many SME owners opt to go without.

“A business plan would have slowed us down,” Eve John says. “It just seemed a little bit too rigid.”

Jacob Aldridge is an international Shirlaws business coach, and has one simple piece of advice about business plans…

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[EDIT: The Sydney Morning Herald link appears to have expired. Thankfully my thoughts on business plans, and the rest of this thought-provoking article, were syndicated into 34 newspapers around Australia.]