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How to Succeed as a Small Business Owner ... and Still Have a Life
By: Bill Collier Publisher: Porchester Press Average Rating: Binding: Paperback Label: Porchester Press Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 157 Publication Date: January 02, 2006 Release Date: June 30, 2006
Product Description: Finally - an "Owner's Manual" for your small business!
Put your business on "auto-pilot." Learn how to ...
- Use your business as a tool to enhance your personal life - Set ambitious goals and achieve them - Develop a real,working business plan - Use values to provide guidance to your staff - even when you're not at the office - Get the right people on your team ... and keep them there - Delegate effectively - Create a "self-healing" culture that practically fixes its own problems - And much more
20 chapters. Each is a lesson in setting goals, making plans for achieving your goals, and executing your plans. Includes a free self-assessment!
Real-world help for real small businesses This is a must read for any small business owner. Written from the perspective of someone who has actually done it, this book is a clear, straightforward approach on how to have a better business and a better life. From the opening story of Bob's Printing Company, a typical small business owner drowning in a sea of things to do, we are given practical, real-world advice on personal priorities, delegation, marketing, hiring, planning, profit sharing, and more. The assessment at the end is an invaluable tool to help you know where you stand as a small business owner. Get it, read it, do it!
A big help! We started a business 4 years ago (landscape consultancy practice in the Middle East), with one staff. The business has been a financial success (now with 24 staff) but we gave up many important things to achieve it. We read so many books on how to run a business. Bill's book was the one which helped us to chart the path to a balanced lifestyle. Appendix A is a checklist made from the chapter summaries. We use this periodically to score ourselves on how well we are maintaining a healthy balance. It's a worthwhile quick exercie.
The book starts with "week in the life of" a frazzled buiness owner, and ends with a "week in the life of" a succesful small business owner. Just read these two and you will feel like reading the rest of the book.
I recommend this book to everyone who is starting or running a small business. It is a great guide.
Read it - read it again and then take action! I am a small business owner of 7 years standing. I liked this book a lot. While I was aware of many of the issues that the author raised, it is still worth a read. The ideas are presented in a concise, well planned and easy to read style.I found that every issue/idea was easy to reconcile against my own business. The author has been there and done it. The book is well structured and takes one through all of the areas that any small business owner needs to address if they are to have a life outside of the business!
How To Succeed as a Small Business Owner...and Still Have a Life Great book--Easy read, full of practical advice, and great examples. This book is much needed for any small business owner, but especially those who find themselves "spread too thin." Isn't that all of us?
Great, concise help Bottom line: It requires lots of work to be able to kick back and let your business run itself instead of run you.
But the author gives great guidance on what, when, and how to accomplish the ability to take time away from your business while it runs without you. Some paragraphs in this book could easily be expanded into chapters or even whole books. But a busy small business owner has no time for a whole book.
I ended the book feeling "I've got a lot of work to do" - but you probably will too after reading How to Succeed as a Small Business Owner... and Still Have a Life.
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