Small Business Leadership

Feel trapped in the firm you’ve built? You’re not alone. What began as a dream of independence and purpose has turned into a grind. The long hours, constant demands, and endless responsibilities have left you burned out, exhausted, and dreading the workday. Instead of freedom, your firm feels like a burden. It doesn’t have to stay that way. In The Simple Firm, you’ll discover a proven framework to release the overwhelm and build a firm that truly works for you.

Lifelong learning has become a multibillion-dollar business, with more than 60 million adults currently engaged in webinars, webcasts, in-house training, continuing education classes, and more. But it is also an industry in flux, as newcomers topple old-guard organizations that can’t keep pace with the need for instant access to materials and flexible delivery methods, as well as demands for community and connection.

In Beer School, authors and entrepreneurs Steve Hindy and Tom Potter share the improbable saga of Brooklyn Brewery, the company they grew from a home-brew hobby into a multimillion-dollar business - all in the most competitive beer market in the United States. If you have a thirst for entrepreneurial success, drink up. If you are a business manager or owner and want fresh ideas and insight, tap in. You'll learn entrepreneurial basics, plus some things textbooks don't teach you, as you follow the company's successes (and a few failures).

The Start-Up Kit contains everything you need to start and run your own business! This book is a friendly guide covering all aspects of starting up - from developing a business idea and setting up a company to marketing your new business, getting that first sale and making the most of the latest tech developments. Full of great advice from start-up expert Emma Jones, it's packed with case studies of people who've successfully started their own businesses.

In early 2012, Jim Tselikis visited LA and met up with his cousin Sabin Lomac. Over a few drinks they waxed nostalgic about their childhood in Maine, surrounded by family, often elbow deep in delicious lobster while gathered around the picnic table. From this strong memory was born the very first Cousins Maine Lobster food truck. Smart, authentic marketing, and sustainable, delicious ingredients helped turn that one food truck into an overnight sensation.

Is it possible to predict your financial future? Most business owners spend more time focused on the weather forecast than the status and forecast of their business. The truth is that the weather changes very quickly and is uncontrollable, but our business forecast is much more in our control. What if you could see into the future of your business? What if you had less stress, chaos, and uncertainty, and more influence over where you are going financially?

For decades, the Customer Driven Leadership (CDL) method has been hailed as one of the most effective ways to revitalize and scale organizations. It has turned million-dollar companies into billion-dollar earners. By focusing on what really matters most—your customers—and by nurturing a culture of servant leadership, CDL becomes the root of exponential growth and success.

This guide is an introduction to the lucrative and satisfying world of online coaching if you want to become a coach of Internet marketers, life coaching, or business coaching. You'll learn that it takes more than a desire to help people to become a success at online coaching—and discover the strategies that will help propel you to coaching success. The purpose of a coach is to help others explore their desires, deepest thoughts, emotions, and needs and to make changes in their lives that will bring personal and/or business success.

Basementality [beys-men-tal-i-tee] / noun: A mindset that blends foresight, scrappiness, flexibility, and passion, empowering you to turn vision into reality and achieve success. For 15 years, Ben Weiss created coffee and beverage products to mixed success. Then, during the Great Recession in 2009, he created Bai in the basement of his town house, disrupting the marketplace with a revolutionary beverage with five calories, no artificial sweeteners, and unprecedented taste. In just seven years, Bai grew from Ben’s basement to a $1.7 billion acquisition by Dr Pepper Snapple Group.

How can we learn to deal with uncertainty at work? The answer is to learn from the adaptive behaviors of entrepreneurs. Play, the authors show, is a crucial component of this. It encourages exploration, experimentation, and curiosity, while it also challenges established practices and orthodoxies. It facilitates change in people and organizations. Drawing on in-depth interviews with entrepreneurs and innovators, this audiobook explains why we should incorporate play into work, what play looks like, and how to encourage playfulness in individuals and organizations.

It's an exciting time to be in marketing: The Internet, social media, and content marketing are powerful equalizers, resetting the playing field for businesses large and small. Yet it's also a challenging time, with much work to do and an ever-changing array of platforms, features, and networks to master - all on a tighter budget than before. Don't get discouraged. Get scrappy!

The Art of Strategic Partnering is a how-to guide for creating and managing successful strategic partnerships. Made for entrepreneurial leaders and executives, this audiobook shows you how to grow a company and achieve game-changing results. Learn tried-and-true lessons from a Silicon Valley industry expert who has successfully negotiated and managed more than 150 strategic partnerships.

The inspiring memoir of female entrepreneur Judy Piatkus, who acquired the book series that inspired the global number one Netflix hit, Bridgerton. In 1979, Judy Piatkus founded what would become a global publishing brand - Piatkus Books - from her spare bedroom. Determined to empower women s voices as a single mother with a child with learning disabilities at a time when being a self-made, female entrepreneur was rare, Judy defied expectations.

How to articulate and assess what success looks like. The Social Profit Handbook offers those who lead, govern, and support mission-driven organizations and businesses new ways to assess their impact in order to improve future work rather than merely judge past performance. Drawing upon decades of leadership in schools and the foundation and nonprofit worlds, author David Grant offers strategies that help organizations take assessment back into their own hands, and improve their work as a result.

The lesson seems so basic. Yet time after time, good companies stumble and lose their stride - just when they were poised for rapid growth. Why? Because their leaders treated hiring as a tedious chore. They posted an ad hoc ad. Took the first person with the right skills. Hired for immediate needs, rather than future flourishing. In Hire Smart from the Start, Dave Carvajal distills lessons gained from 20 years in the trenches, building out and staffing two enormously successful Internet startups and helping firms like Tumblr, and Shutterstock land the talent they need to reach their greatest potential.

"Empowerment" can be a mind-numbing topic, but in The 3 Keys to Empowerment, Ken Blanchard and his coauthors use concrete examples, a Q&A format, case histories, and entertaining comments to keep the discussion lively. The authors show that empowerment is not about giving people power, it's about releasing the power they already have.

This groundbreaking book shows nonprofits a new way of operating in our increasingly connected world: a networked approach enabled by social technologies, where connections are leveraged to increase impact in effective ways that drive change for the betterment of our society and planet.

An entrepreneur is someone who has a great, innovative idea that identifies the need for the creation of a new business, taking on the financial risk in the hope of profit and driving that business forward in a measured way. This book draws on the stories, experiences and words of iconic business figures from around the globe and across the years - from Andrew Carnegie and Oprah Winfrey to Steve Jobs and Sunil Mittal.

In today's generation, businesses are increasing in number, and competition is inevitable. There is no doubt that because of the demands of the people in this society, businesses are increasing in importance. Because of that fact, there are a number of aspiring entrepreneurs in the process of considering the idea of starting a business. Their businesses could be of great help not just to them but also to society. Still, it might not be that easy to build a business thanks to the fact that competition is always on the rise.

Manchee explores the myriad of reasons why small businesses fail, provides practical advice on how to turn an ailing business around, and gives dozens of examples of entrepreneurs he has worked with in the past who have successfully reorganized their businesses.