Small Leadership

This book highlights one small business owner's journey to achieve success on her own terms. And spotlights key learning you can take from this experience in the form of 10 top business lessons you can apply to your own entrepreneurial journey. Listen to this book if you like to learn from other people's mistakes, if you love to hear business autobiographies, or simply if you're curious. This book is intentionally short so that you can learn and apply the lessons quickly and easily.

iCoach is not just a book, but a system refined over 35 years of coaching CEOs and other leaders to meet strategic imperatives. Even if you stay in your current job - and especially if you're the CEO - iCoach gives you access to being a successful coach. iCoach is your road map to real power - by unleashing people. The problem is, we know how to fly a robot to Mars, yet we know next to nothing about empowering people - igniting their productivity. If working with others is a mystery (or a pain) to you, iCoach® is the solution.

Did you know that what helps elite athletes and coaches perform better under pressure applies directly to the world of business? The author of this audiobook, Dave “Dr. Dave” Striegel, draws on his experiences with world-class athletes to help you pursue excellence as the leader of a small business. Take Your Shot is about the day-to-day actions and interactions that move the needle. How you mentally prepare to lead, communicate your expectations, and offer feedback are building blocks of leadership.

If you are a business owner and tried all the big marketing buzzwords and concepts you're told to try.

Starting a buѕinеѕѕ iѕ оnе оf the most complicated, difficult, and rewarding experiences available, yet worth every effort and cost when it succeeds. Unfortunately, too many entrepreneurs jump in without building a strong еnоugh foundation to survive. Straightforward yet соmрrеhеnѕivе, this guide iѕ the ultimate tool уоu nееd tо turn your small business idea into an income-producing company in 30 days!

Growing your business sounds easy. But successful sales and marketing is hard. Is your business failing to realize its true potential? It might be that your sales and marketing are holding you back. Learn how to market more convincingly, sell more successfully, and manage more effectively. In Sticky Sales and Marketing, Peter Lyle DeHaan, PhD breaks down sales and marketing strategies in a coherent story-driven process and highlights what works and what doesn’t. Through personal stories and eye-opening insights, he shares how businesses and organizations can promote their products and ...

Target Funding is a strategic guide to funding opportunities aimed at specific types of businesses and business owners. You'll learn about all the options available to you - including conventional, alternative, and diversity funding - and how to access them based on your needs and your demographic, industry, location, and other variables.

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.

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.

This easy-to-use guide takes the guesswork out of setting up and running a small business. Reports, troubleshooting, tax preparation, reconciliation, and everyday bookkeeping issues will be a breeze. Cheryl has empowered business owners just like you to become confident in using the QuickBooks® software. Her simple-to-use processes will help your company run like a well-oiled machine.

Have you been waiting to leave your suffocating day job? Have you been wondering if you should turn your side hustle or hobby into your own business? Have you struggled with how or when to launch? Go Solo has your answers. First, Humphreys tackles how to know you're picking the right business for you. This book is not about start ups, apps, or making easy money online.

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.

ATTENTION STUDENTS: If you need to write a paper on small businesses, then this is the perfect reference. It's simple, easy to understand, and right to the point. Small businesses employ millions of people worldwide. They have limited resources, but their creativity and innovation keeps them on the cutting edge of new ideas and technology and allows them to grow and prosper. Many books have been writing about owning a small business, but few have been written about working in one. This eBook: • Examines the advantages and disadvantages of working in small businesses • Analyzes the role ...

Starting from Scratch, the first installment of The Self-Employed Journey series, is a collection of stories shared by 12 small business owners, each successful in their own way. Coming from a variety of industries, business models, and experience levels, these trailblazing professionals break down their unique self-employed journeys, providing hope, courage, inspiration, education, and guidance, no matter whether you are a seasoned self-employed professional or contemplating taking that leap into the unknown.

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.

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.

By choosing minimalism, one lives with fewer resources by choice to prevent wastefulness and overwhelm. Minimalism for Business Owners applies these concepts to the entrepreneurial lifestyle to bring the ultimate reward of peace and simplicity. Between every learning chapter there is the fictional story of Jennifer, and how she uses these concepts in her own business as a private music instructor.

A lot of businesspeople talk about innovation, but few companies have achieved the level of truly transformative innovation as brilliantly - or as famously - as the legendary Mayo Clinic. Introducing Think Big, Start Small, Move Fast, the first innovation guide based on the proven, decade-long program that's made Mayo Clinic one of the most respected and successful organizations in the world.

Do you want to become more productive at your 9-5 day job or at your self-employed business? The Checklist Mindset shows you how to implement not only four daily tasks for increased productivity, but Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive, Google Docs, and Google Sheets. You'll also plug into the power of a ZenDesk help desk to systematize and outsource your business, Calendly to handle appointment scheduling, and Zapier to handle task automation.

After years of sharing her small-business tips and marketing tricks with readers of her popular blog, ChunkOfChange.com, and her column in the Long Beach Post, Olga Mizrahi has taken her message to the streets, urging business owners to focus in while reaching out. You'll be excited and motivated to state your difference clearly to the world--and your neighborhood--while confidently selling yourself and your business.