Small Leadership

In America's small business landscape, the fail-success rate leans entirely too far in favor of failure, and past experiences provided the author with invaluable insight into many of the reasons. Adam Starks' Vultured is part autobiography, part self-help book, highlighting the dark side of entrepreneurship by identifying pitfalls in the decision-making process as it relates to starting and running a small business. Serving as a cautionary tale, the book warns against all such mistakes one can make that may result in landing on the failing side of a small business venture.

The nine-to-five isn't the only way to make a living. More and more of us are becoming freelancers, side-hustlers or creative entrepreneurs, drawn to flexible working, a better work-life balance and a greater sense of self-worth - all on our own terms. That's exactly how Anna Codrea-Rado felt when she first went freelance. But now, having documented the hard-won lessons and mistakes made along the way, she knows what makes up a successful freelance career.

Chuck Sawicki outlines his intuitive, personal mentoring style that goes beyond the old "one size fits all" model. It demonstrates the benefits of connecting people and communities. His generosity, caring, and curiosity are the hallmarks of not only his own success, but the legacies of all those he's mentored.

Have a desire to start a business, but not the foggiest idea what of where to start? (Or what that business should look like?) Have a vague business idea, but unclear how what you need to pull it off? (And how to ensure you create products and services that actual human strangers will pay you money for?)

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.

So you want to start a business? You have had the concept for a sure-fire successful business for a long time and you have cultivated the idea into a viable business plan and the possibility of working for yourself is something that you relish. You are dying to take the plunge but something is holding you back. It’s time to take the fear out of business finances.

Are you ready to grow or give up? So you have started your business, congratulations! But now the excitement is over, the bills are stacking up, and the late nights are relentless. You're not getting any new clients and as much as you want to put your prices up you're afraid that it might deter people from working with you.

In this inspirational yet hugely practical book, Duncan Bannatyne shows how anyone can assess where they are in their lives and start to do something to improve things by understanding what their strengths are. He then shows how to change your life and set yourself on a more successful path. Finally, he reveals his key tips for how to put together a great pitch that could take you into the Dragons' Den, or even past your bank manager, to get the support you need to make your dreams come true.

Debra Traverso tells you how to prepare for the surprises most likely to throw small businesses off course. She helps you anticipate both predictable hurdles and devastating ordeals, so that no crisis will catch you off guard. No need to waste emotions, time, and money when a crisis hits: you can get a good night's sleep!

With over 50 percent of businesses failing in the first five years, there’s no doubt that the pressure to perform is ever increasing. Most new business owners say they’re exhausted, overwhelmed, and lost on how to create businesses of their dreams. For those who have the goal of becoming a successful entrepreneur, it’s absolutely crucial to understand and develop the skills for running a business so that it doesn’t become the entrepreneurial nightmare.

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.

A successful entrepreneur shares his views on how the standard business maxims are not always true and offers practical advice and anecdotes to help readers make going into business for themselves work. 35,000 first printing. Tour.

Imagine a system that allowed you to make money almost effortlessly, so that you could spend your time with friends and family, follow your dreams, or pursue other goals without worrying about where your next paycheck is coming from. Now imagine if all you needed to make that happen were a computer and an Internet connection. If you can imagine it, you can achieve it - with Your Portable Empire.

Elevate your coaching skills and build a successful practice with the Coaching Excellence Bundle, a powerful 2-in-1 audiobook collection. With the Coaching Excellence Bundle, you'll gain the knowledge and skills to not only build a successful coaching business but also to become a coach who inspires and drives real change in others. Embrace the journey to coaching excellence and make a profound difference in the lives of those you work with.

All across the planet, entrepreneurs and innovators are actively working to solve humanity’s toughest problems. If you are an inventor, trailblazer, or game-changer who dreams of making the world a better place through crazy ideas with extraordinary results, this book is for you. Super-Entrepreneurship Decoded will show you how to make that dream a reality, from tackling an insurmountable problem to creating the kind of breakthrough business that can fix it. You will be able to materialize your dreams, build your own future, and achieve anything you want in life.

Judging a book by its cover is one thing. Judging Shut Up and Tweet by its size, however, is an epic mistake. This book contains game-changing strategies that will turn you into a Twitter rockstar. You'll access your ideal audience for free and get serious results. If you want to become a better brand, stop talking and get moving. Just shut up and tweet.

Relationship Economics® takes a unique long term, strategic and quantifiable view of business relationships that goes far beyond networking oriented books. Nowadays, many companies believe that networking is a key to success. Relationship Economics shows us that this notion is a mere fallacy. With this course, the reader will learn that success comes from learning how to invest in people for an extraordinary return.

Today's economy has been fluctuating so much that companies are whittling down their pools of local workers and outsourcing their services from abroad instead, which means that true job security is up to you. The best way to survive unemployment is by self-employment, and this book will teach you how to put up and operate your very own business right within the comfort of your own home.

"Streamlining Success: A Practical Guide to Automated Information Management for Small Businesses" provides small business owners with a clear, actionable roadmap to harness the power of automation. This concise guide covers the essentials of Automated Information Management (AIM), from understanding its core benefits to overcoming the challenges of manual processes.

If you're fed up with lenders ignoring your calls or less-than-sincere bankers giving you the runaround when you're on the clock to fulfill lucrative government contracts, you'll be delighted to know that this audiobook reveals powerful insider lending tips. They will have you laughing out loud all the way from the bank.