Small Business Leadership

Project Management for Small Projects shows you how to tailor bureaucratic planning processes to a sleek minimum while still keeping your project running like a well-oiled machine. This third edition has been updated to align with the Project Management Institute’s Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK®) and provides new tools, templates, and techniques to support the revised processes. In addition, there is new material on agile project management and on the essential leadership skills for small-project managers.

Build the Damn Thing Now: A Business Owners Guide for Becoming More is a must-listen for every CEO, entrepreneur, and small business owner alike. After you listen to this audiobook, you'll have everything you need to become a boss CEO and key builder in each department in your company.

Rund 90 Prozent der Unternehmen in Deutschland haben weniger als zehn Mitarbeiter. Kleinstunternehmen bis hin zu kleinen Mittelständlern bilden damit das Rückgrat unserer Wirtschaft. Dennoch wird in Öffentlichkeit und Politik immer wieder bevorzugt auf die sogenannten Big Five – Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft – oder auch auf die großen DAX-Konzerne geschaut. Von der Realität der KMU sind diese jedoch meilenweit entfernt. Deren Gründer, Eigentümer und Anpacker haben wenig Interesse an abgehobenem BWL-Fachwissen.

You can run a better business with these simple words of wisdom. What if you could remember nuggets of business wisdom like lines from your favourite songs? Is it possible to condense a smart business idea into one memorable line that makes it unforgettable? Blogger and marketing specialist Russ Hughes thinks it is and has built two successful businesses doing so. Get business insights to inspire, challenge, and motivate. Aimed to help you run a better business, but hold tight; there is no hanging around!

Bank is a crash course in small business finance. Inside, you will find a practical guide on how money works, how to manage a very irregular flow of money, understanding your money temperament and financial integrity, and the life of a business. You will also find helpful information on creating a bookkeeping system that works for you, essential skills entrepreneurs must have, and how to deal with adverse money events.

Knowing that entrepreneurs have no time to waste, Ramberg presents simple and effective guidance that can be put to use right away. This book will be indispensable for every small business owner, from a family-owned store to a venture capitalist-backed start up.

Work hard, dream big... Are you excited to see Monday morning come? Does your work feel like a vacation instead of a vocation? If not, it why not break free from the nine to five routine and start your own business? This audiobook shows the steps involved in starting your own business. It starts with learning how to validate your idea and also provides valuable shortcuts that allow your business to become an overnight success. You owe it to yourself to venture out in the business world.

Are your systems and team impeding your business from thriving and being profitable? Wrestling with building a profitable business? Struggling to find (and keep) great people to help your business grow? Exasperated by wanting to build systems that repeat business success without your continual involvement but never having the time? Frustrated that you are working harder, but there never seems to be any money left over for you? If you are ready to finally build a stable, thriving business based around solid systems with a great team and culture, this is the book for you.

Now a number one international best seller! Half of all new businesses in the US and UK fail within five years. They fail for various reasons, but the main issue is that business owners either don’t face up to their problems at all or when they do, it’s too late. Face It & Fix It is a must-listen audiobook for owners of struggling small businesses; those who don’t have a moment to lose before disaster strikes and their business is lost. It is a hard-hitting and easy-to-understand guidebook that explains how any small business can be transformed into a success.

In Business Basics Bootcamp, author, successful entrepreneur, and branding expert Mitche Graf draws on 35 years of experience launching cutting-edge new businesses and coaching budding entrepreneurs to offer you proven and powerful methods for quickly scaling business ventures, while working less and playing more, utilizing his heralded "24-7 mentality". You will learn how to maximize efficiency, overcome procrastination and self-doubt, and earn significantly more money than you can make in your nine-to-five job, while putting your lifestyle at the top of the food chain.

Do you remember the class in high school where they taught you how to find, interview, and hire great employees? Or was it in college? What class was it again? Oh yeah, no one teaches you how to hire. On top of that, the only books on hiring I could find were written for large businesses with thousands of employees about hiring executives. This audiobook is for 90 percent of small business owners out there wanting to hire 1-20 employees. You can hire high achievers and let your competitors have low achievers.

Entrepreneur Voices on Growth Hacking shares the inspirational stories of unconventional entrepreneurs who retooled companies and industries and were rewarded handsomely for it while giving you the tools you need to do the same.

Success as an entrepreneur takes a lot more than big ideas and dedication. With threats of burnout and rejection at nearly every turn, the entrepreneurial journey is riddled with obstacles-but the staff, experts, and voices of Entrepreneur want you to know you're not alone. Entrepreneur Voices on Emotional Intelligence brings you real-world strategies to help you get brutally honest with yourself and boost your emotional intelligence.

We're in "wild west" times for business. Thanks to social media and new technologies, customer-brand relationships are suddenly wide open and up for grabs. Big players are getting taken down, while upstarts are starting up, gunning for market share, and outmaneuvering the Goliaths. So, just when a rethink might seem in order, why do so many act like it's 1982 all over again? Why do they believe product pushing still works?

In his new book, When Is The Right Time To Sell My Business?, Rich Mowrey tackles a decision point that many business owners inevitably find themselves in, but one that can be difficult, stressful, and full of trepidation. It is a decision that can bring regrets and questions about timing and planning that they never considered, and Mowrey's objective is to help a business owner sell their business without regrets.

After launching his first company while still in college, Jason Baptiste cofounded his current venture, Onswipe, in his early twenties, turning it into a multimillion-dollar company in less than a year. Now, drawing on his own experience as a bootstrapping but hungry entrepreneur, as well as on examples from today’s most famous companies, he guides would-be tech moguls through every stage of the process - from testing a concept to acquiring customers to determining the best pricing model - in a cheap, practical way.

How can we do employee engagement well during the coronavirus pandemic, Brexit, and huge economic uncertainty? How can we motivate every employee, including the increasing number of people working from home? Mastering Small Business Employee Engagement will change the way you manage your small business - for the better.

Whether you're facing funding sharks or angel investors, we've got the keys to crafting that perfect pitch to help you secure the funds you need to launch your startup, build your business, and achieve your entrepreneurial dreams. In this new edition of the Entrepreneur Voices series, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and experts from both sides of the board room present the game-winning strategies and deal-closing tactics you need to succeed.

Whether at work or at home, success is something we strive for in all aspects of our lives. And while there are a number of obvious things you should be doing in order to achieve your goals and reach success, there are also some not-so-obvious ones. Entrepreneur Voices on the Science of Success offers data and research-backed tools and tactics for both business and personal achievement from entrepreneurs and small business owners including Tim Ferris, Brian Tracy, and Reid Hoffman.

Wes Berry built a remarkable $60-million-dollar international business from his family’s small florist shop, which began in Detroit. Now, in his extraordinary new audiobook, he shares what he has learned over the years about leadership and business growth. In many businesses that fail, the small things are overlooked; they are the things that are often the easiest to implement, but at the same, time they are easy to forget. It’s these small things that have the greatest impact in the long term.