Anyone who travels for business knows that it is hardly glamorous. After 9/11, however, it became even more frustrating, and it keeps getting worse. I don’t think I’d be overstating it to say that business travel today is horrific: irretrievably lost luggage, annoying security searches, perpetually oversold flights, infuriating rental car policies, frazzled counter staff … I think you get the picture.

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Why are so many businesses having problems? The “R” word – recession – keeps popping up, but my local Mastermind Members’ businesses are thriving! Why is that?

The answer is no secret but many business owners forget it.  You cannot just do one thing. As The Beatles said, “One is the loneliest number.”  “Why?” you ask.

Having one way to obtain a new customer, using only one vendor, having one assistant – if you are doing this in your business, it can be disaster. And I would even suggest that the reason why...