When you climb a mountain, your goal is clear. You can see the summit, you can picture yourself standing way up there on top – exhausted maybe, but exhilarated, proud and awestruck.

In business, the goal frequently isn’t so clear. Owners, employees, bankers, advisors and investors can find themselves climbing toward what they assume is a business’s summit… but instead end up scaling different peaks.

Now a new book, Parallel Peaks: Business Insights While Climbing the World’s Highest Mountains, by John McQuaig, CMC, CPA – entrepreneur, consultant, banker, organic farmer and veteran mountaineer – reveals secrets to building a successful business, secrets based on unique insights that came to the author while working his way upwards toward many of the world’s loftiest natural summits.