It is highly likely that the sale of your business is not going to provide for 100 percent of the earning power that you have received from your business. It's also true that most business owners have unrealistically optimistic ideas concerning the sale value of their business. So how do you, a business owner, prepare for financial independence and a secure retirement? How do you make your business worth more to others so that it's worth more to you? One way is through the Podolny Method, a logical, step-by-step program for initiating real change in your business. First, it helps you determine what you really want. It answers the questions: Why are you in business? What do you expect personally from your business, both now and when your ownership ends and you move on to the next phase of your life? Michael Podolny's eight-step method will help you establish where your business is and how your business works for or against your personal requirements. Most importantly, The Podolny Method provides you with the tools to initiate and sustain the changes that need to take place if you are to make your business to serve you.