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A Good Hard Kick in the Ass Rob Adams help entrepreneurs find true markets for their products, design solid business models, and hire great teams – because that’s what it takes to build a successful company. The first thing to realize is that ideas are a dime a dozen. “Successful businesses don’t depend on unique ideas. Instead, they rely on a team’s ability to execute – to build, market, and sell a product that’s better, fasters, or cheaper, and to do so to near-superhuman perfection.” The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done This book explains how to be effective, regardless of your personality or circumstances. Peter explains how effectiveness can be learned. “Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.” If you’re starting or working at a new business, this book will give you great advice about hiring the right people and understanding the most important things to do. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't Jim Collins attempts to answer the question of how a company can move from Good to Great. He and a team of 20 researchers spent five years and more than 15,000 manhours researching the question, Why Some Companies Make the Leap, Good to Great...and Others Don't. This is a fascinating book as an entrepreneur. Multiple Streams of Income Robert Allen captivates the three primary income sources and explains how you can get involved in them. This is a great book to help you find new ideas and opportunities. The primary idea Robert focuses on is finding residual income - future income off past efforts. The book is full of ideas. |
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A Good Hard Kick in the Ass Rob Adams help entrepreneurs find true markets for their products, design solid business models, and hire great teams – because that’s what it takes to build a successful company. The first thing to realize is that ideas are a dime a dozen. “Successful businesses don’t depend on unique ideas. Instead, they rely on a team’s ability to execute – to build, market, and sell a product that’s better, fasters, or cheaper, and to do so to near-superhuman perfection.” You’re Hired Bill Rancic was the winner of the highly successful reality TV show, “The Apprentice”, hosted by billionaire Donald Trump. This book is a summary of Bills' path to business success. Bill has some great advice. ”Don’t be afraid to set your sights on some far-off goal in some far-off place, but at the same time feel proud to pursue opportunities in your own backyard.” The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done This book explains how to be effective, regardless of your personality or circumstances. Peter explains how effectiveness can be learned. “Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.” If you’re starting or working at a new business, this book will give you great advice about hiring the right people and understanding the most important things to do. Working From Home This is the altimate guide for how to start a home business. Full of ideas and tips. Working from home increases productivity by 15 to 20 percent. What better way to complete in the global economy. One great idea is to build a network of small home businesses with whom to trade services with. Crossing the Chasm This book is primary about moving from high tech products from early market success to mainstream market leadership. But, this book explains many of the concepts of moving a business from the starting gate into the marketplace. If you are trying to start a new business, this book will be very useful. This book talks about, attacking a niche market, creating competition, start locally – then globally, building relationships and many others aspects of getting started. The Innovators Solution: Creating and Sustaining Sucessful Growth Creating growth is a challenge for every company. This book is a study of the keys to creating sustainable growth. The results indicate that the companies that target their products at the circumstances in which customers find themselves, rather than at the customers themselves, are those that can launch predictably successful products. Much more in this book. Will and Vision: How Latecomers Grow to Dominate Markets This book is aimed to debunk the First Movers Advantage, which is the idea that the first company to create a product in a new market has historically become the industry leader. If you're starting a new business, this book will inspire you to move ahead with your plans even if you are not the first one to the market. Multiple Streams of Income Robert Allen captivates the three primary income sources and explains how you can get involved in them. This is a great book to help you find new ideas and opportunities. The primary idea Robert focuses on is finding residual income - future income off past efforts. The book is full of ideas. |
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Creating Customer Evangelists Creating customer evangelists spells out in fine detail how you can create an energy in your business that generates buzz -- and great ideas for your business too. How? By paying attention to what your customers ask for and listening to their expert advice. Each of the case studies has a new angle on the customer evangelist business model, revealing yet another insight into creating a business that is more about caring for the customer, AND that advertises your brand too. Financial Intelligence This is a book that will help you understand business financial terms. The idea is that everyone in a company does better when they understand how financial success is measured and how they have an impact on the company’s performance. You will learn about income statements, balance sheets, capital expenses vs. operating expenses, cash vs. profits and more. |
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Creating Customer Evangelists Creating customer evangelists spells out in fine detail how you can create an energy in your business that generates buzz -- and great ideas for your business too. How? By paying attention to what your customers ask for and listening to their expert advice. Each of the case studies has a new angle on the customer evangelist business model, revealing yet another insight into creating a business that is more about caring for the customer, AND that advertises your brand too. A Good Hard Kick in the Ass Rob Adams help entrepreneurs find true markets for their products, design solid business models, and hire great teams – because that’s what it takes to build a successful company. The first thing to realize is that ideas are a dime a dozen. “Successful businesses don’t depend on unique ideas. Instead, they rely on a team’s ability to execute – to build, market, and sell a product that’s better, fasters, or cheaper, and to do so to near-superhuman perfection.” Absolute Honesty Absolute Honesty gives you a template for creating and sustaining a business environment of open communication and healthy debate. It explains why honesty in business is the foundation of America and the reason behind our success. Honesty pays, by creating better trusted customers, employees, and shareholders. The productivity gains are perhaps the biggest advantage to fostering honesty within a company. Financial Intelligence This is a book that will help you understand business financial terms. The idea is that everyone in a company does better when they understand how financial success is measured and how they have an impact on the company’s performance. You will learn about income statements, balance sheets, capital expenses vs. operating expenses, cash vs. profits and more. You’re Hired Bill Rancic was the winner of the highly successful reality TV show, “The Apprentice”, hosted by billionaire Donald Trump. This book is a summary of Bills' path to business success. Bill has some great advice. ”Don’t be afraid to set your sights on some far-off goal in some far-off place, but at the same time feel proud to pursue opportunities in your own backyard.” E-Myth Mastery This book is about how to start a small business. Michael teaches you about money, relationships, pricing, communication, and most importantly how to build a system. Creating a repeatable, trainable system is how you remove yourself from being the critical element of the business – allowing you to hire and train others to work in well defined functions. The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done This book explains how to be effective, regardless of your personality or circumstances. Peter explains how effectiveness can be learned. “Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.” If you’re starting or working at a new business, this book will give you great advice about hiring the right people and understanding the most important things to do. Working From Home This is the altimate guide for how to start a home business. Full of ideas and tips. Working from home increases productivity by 15 to 20 percent. What better way to complete in the global economy. One great idea is to build a network of small home businesses with whom to trade services with. Crossing the Chasm This book is primary about moving from high tech products from early market success to mainstream market leadership. But, this book explains many of the concepts of moving a business from the starting gate into the marketplace. If you are trying to start a new business, this book will be very useful. This book talks about, attacking a niche market, creating competition, start locally – then globally, building relationships and many others aspects of getting started. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't Jim Collins attempts to answer the question of how a company can move from Good to Great. He and a team of 20 researchers spent five years and more than 15,000 manhours researching the question, Why Some Companies Make the Leap, Good to Great...and Others Don't. This is a fascinating book as an entrepreneur. Seeing What's Next: Using Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change This book will help to understand what new innovations with survive and which will fade away. If your investing or starting a new business, this book is a must read. Clayton argues that disruptive innovations typically introduce new benefits to a market, usually centered on convenience, simplicity, customization, or affordability. The Innovators Solution: Creating and Sustaining Sucessful Growth Creating growth is a challenge for every company. This book is a study of the keys to creating sustainable growth. The results indicate that the companies that target their products at the circumstances in which customers find themselves, rather than at the customers themselves, are those that can launch predictably successful products. Much more in this book. The Innovators Dilemma:  We have all seen large, powerful, and successful corporations upstaged and driven out of business by startups using new ideas to grow exponentially and dominate the new business landscape. This book shows the step by step process of how this can happen and what mistakes large corporations instinctively and predictable make. If you are starting a new business, this book is great for understanding how to drive your product into the market. Will and Vision: How Latecomers Grow to Dominate Markets This book is aimed to debunk the First Movers Advantage, which is the idea that the first company to create a product in a new market has historically become the industry leader. If you're starting a new business, this book will inspire you to move ahead with your plans even if you are not the first one to the market. Success Build to Last: Creating a Life that Matters This book is about successful people. Not just financial success, but a lasting success that comes from serving a cause greater than yourself. This book is a study people that with lasting success. "Your personality is not what determines enduring success; it's what you do with your personality that counts." Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies Built to Last identifies 18 "visionary" companies and sets out to determine what's special about them. The results were that the primary similarity was a culture of commitment, motivation and focus shared by all employees. If you're building a company, culture just maybe the most important ingredient. Developing The Leader Within You Success is about leadership. Leadership is about integrity. Integrity is about trust. Trust comes from rewarding, believing in and helping the people around you. This book will help you uncover the leader within you and give you the keys to identifying leaders and how to build a team around a leader. Why We Want You To Be Rich Two to the most successful entrepreneurs’ in history, bring a message of investing to win. With question and answers that explain how they did it and how you can to. They see America facing huge financial problems that the government cannot handle. This book will encourage you to get involve in your personal finances and find a strategy that works for you. Multiple Streams of Income Robert Allen captivates the three primary income sources and explains how you can get involved in them. This is a great book to help you find new ideas and opportunities. The primary idea Robert focuses on is finding residual income - future income off past efforts. The book is full of ideas. Business for the Glory of God When students ask, “How can I serve God with my life?” they don’t often hear the answer, “Go into business”. But that is exactly what this book is claiming. Grudem says, “human desires to increase the production of goods and services are not in themselves greedy or materialistic or evil. Rather, such desires to be productive represent God-given desires to dominion over the earth as He created us to do.” Grudem also explains that significant temptations accompany all productions of goods and services, which we need to resist. This is not a ‘Health and Wealth’ gospel, but a biblical look at the goodness of business. Business by The Book The complete guide of biblical principles for the workplace. Burkett discusses many important business principles like, hiring-firing, goals, debt, management, pay, retirement and many others. |
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