Review: An Indispensable Tool for Anyone Starting a Company
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 18, 2012
This booklet is a very quick read that's concisely filled with great questions. 101 Pivotal Questions is a lot like the author's other book, Five Year Life. You start out thinking that the questions are easy - almost trivial - until you realize the depth and subtext of each question. The more you think about the answer, the more complex your response becomes as you really think through what is required for implementation in real life.Mr. Goodman recommends that you type a full page answer for each question with the warning that if you can't complete a full page then you have not thought through the answer enough. I have to say that this step seemed like tedious homework to me until I realized I really do need to know the answers to all of these questions before investing a lot of time and money into my new company. Like his book, Five Year Life, his questions have a way of haunting you at the most inconvenient times.By the time you think through your answers to all 101 questions, you will know if you are really ready to start a company. Even though I did not want to hear it, I now know that I am not yet ready to start my own dream company because of my answers to some of these questions. The truth was driven home by my own answers that I am not yet ready. This means that this small book has probably already saved me a large amount of my time and money while I go find better answers.