Creating success-and avoiding failure-for small and medium-sized businesses has proven-over a sustained period-to be the direct result of the decisions and actions made by their leaders about the internal structures of these businesses. By focusing on building a strong core, business founders, owners, and executives have the power to ensure success, rather than falling prey to failure. The Structure of Success provides a simple framework-consisting of approaches, methodologies, and tools for assessing, determining, planning, and implementing decisions-for building the internal structural components of a business, and, specifically, focusing on the eight most important categories that have been shown to impact success and failure for small and medium-sized businesses.