Small Business Management

Most small business owners never achieve their goals because they do not know what to do or do not understand why they need to do it and/or cannot figure out how to do it. Running Your Small Business like a Pro is a commonsense guide for learning how to run your business as a professional enterprise. It provides you with a fundamental understanding of the challenges small businesses face with real-world solutions that drive results.

1000 Tips and Tools for Small Business Success is a compact, informative guide for small business owners and managers. Written by an expert business consultant, this handy volume provides helpful advice for all areas of managing a business. If you need answers to your HR, marketing, and operation management needs, you will find them here.

In an impatient world of infobesity, people don't want more information - they want to be intrigued and they want to be intrigued fast. After all, goldfish have longer attention spans than humans - nine seconds to our eight. So, right now, people want to know, "How is this relevant and useful to me? Why are you worth my valuable time, mind, and dime?" Bestselling author and ace communication strategist Sam Horn reveals her "secret sauce" for truly connecting with people - whether it's one or one million.

Vous vous apprêtez à commencer votre carrière ou vous souhaitez vous réorienter? Vous aimeriez disposer de l’autonomie d’un(e) entrepreneur(e) sans partir de zéro? Et si vous considériez l’entreprise familiale comme option de carrière? Travailler en famille vise à vous apporter le soutien nécessaire dans votre long processus de réflexion. Cet ouvrage vous permettra d’en apprendre davantage sur les particularités d’une entreprise familiale en explorant les 3 sphères qui la composent : l’entreprise, la propriété et la famille.

Ben & Jerry's has always been committed to an insanely ambitious three-part mission: Making the world's best ice cream, supporting progressive causes, and sharing the company's success with all stakeholders: employees, suppliers, distributors, customers, cows, everybody. But it hasn't been easy. This is the first book to tell the full, inside story of the inspiring rise, tragic mistakes, devastating fall, determined recovery, and ongoing renewal of one of the most iconic mission-driven companies in the world.

Far from a dry listen, The Lean Law Firm is the first book published by the ABA to employ the novel to teach business lessons. Follow the engaging story of lawyer Carson Wright, who suddenly finds himself responsible for saving a small law firm, as his mentor Guy Chapman imparts the lean techniques that transformed his factory from the brink of bankruptcy to new heights of profitability. As you hear the The Lean Law Firm story unfold, you’ll see how your own firm is really just a system.

Become a digital-first organization. If you read (or listen) to nothing else on leading digital transformation, listen to these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help revitalize your offerings and processes, stay ahead of disruptors and technology shifts, and manage the necessary cultural change.

Is it possible to be a mom and be a successful business owner? You have big dreams, big ideas, and big goals. You know that you can contribute amazing things to the world, and you are made for more...but you also have little people clinging to your ankles, begging for more snacks, trashing your kitchen, and interrupting your sleep. Mom-life-business demands are a treacherous path to navigate - the struggle is real! That’s where Dream Big, Step Small can help you achieve life changing goals. With one small step at a time.

An instructional and comprehensive four-in-one book bundle that includes a collection of guides discussing all the information that beginners should be aware of. Are you curious about options trading? Are you the type of person that wants to learn all about it, without having to spend too much money on buying various books relating to the subject? If all of these fit your criteria, then you’re in the right place!

Owning a small business can be challenging enough even in the best of times. And when times get tough - whether the challenges are brought about by pandemics, recessions, or any other volatility, you need every tool sharpened and ready to go. You'll find them all in Your Small Business Boom, with the latest in entrepreneurial thinking from USA Today small-business columnist Steve Strauss. Packed with strategies, ideas, savvy tips, and noteworthy trends, it's an indispensable guide to rebuilding in a post-pandemic world - and thriving when the next crisis hits.

The original concept behind the book was for a father to teach his children how to create a company that they could run and grow on their own - in his absence. This was meant for their eyes only, so it includes hardcore examples on how to build a business. The curtain is pulled back. Stan uses real examples from real projects that allow you to see how it can be done.

The Cofounder’s Handbook brings business partnerships into the spotlight where they belong. Most people don’t realize how much their partnership affects the strength of their business. The right cofounder multiplies your success. But the wrong partner divides your attention and effort, hinders your business’s progress, and potentially destroys it from within.

Female entrepreneurs are a growing force to be reckoned with. Each year, more and more women take the initiative and start their own business ventures - at twice the rate of men. Women continue to reshape the business world with innovative models, both large and small. So why is there a lack of clear-cut, expert advice aimed at this dynamic female audience?

Do you want to save hours a day and do more in less time? Feel productive instead of stressed, defeated, and overwhelmed? If (1) you wonder where your time goes, (2) you can't motivate or organize yourself, and (3) you struggle to buckle down and concentrate when it really matters - newsflash! Your to-do list is not cutting it anymore. You need to develop superhuman focus and all that comes with it. Superhuman Focus teaches the most important of skills - the ability to get stuff done.

Starting a Pest Control Business: An Entrepreneur's Guide to Launching and Growing a Successful Pest Management Company by VentureNest Books is a comprehensive resource for anyone looking to enter the thriving pest control industry. This guide provides aspiring entrepreneurs with the knowledge and strategies necessary to successfully launch and grow a pest management company. The book addresses key challenges faced by new business owners, such as creating an effective business plan, understanding regulatory requirements, and implementing successful marketing strategies.

Dental practice owners and their teams often dream of growing a successful dental group or DSO. Then complexity sets in. Today, successful practitioners have to survive the world of business: marketing, messaging, HR, finance, compliance. It's a lot for any team to manage. DSO Secrets: The Ultimate Guide to Building Your Dental Empire uncovers those secrets. Whether your goal is to be a top clinician in a single practice or to build your own multi-practice portfolio, this book has the resources you're looking for.

The Mushin Way teaches tools and techniques to help you reach peak performance and transform your business and personal life. Regardless of what we want to achieve in business or in life, transformation can be difficult and we tend to be our own worst enemies. We hold ourselves back without even realizing what we are capable of. In this audiobook, you'll learn how to break through the cycle of stress and setbacks to act with clarity, purpose, and direction - achieving peak performance and transformation along the way.

Business owners today are constantly faced with difficult challenges and eight of 10 new businesses will not survive the first five years. Competition is difficult and building a sustainable, profitable business is arguably the most challenging sport in all of business today. In The Ultimate Business Tune Up, Rich Allen combines the experiences of his father’s own small business, his personal experiences running and growing a business, and his learning from advising hundreds of small business owners into a powerful, step-by-step guide for small business owners everywhere.

The authors of the national bestseller THE POWER OF NICE once again tackle conventional wisdom with a provocative and counterintuitive book about the importance of sweating the small stuff in our lives and in our careers. Our smallest actions and gestures often have outsized impact on our...

Own things, don't run things. This is the secret to living your American Dream. These days, everyone seems to have a big idea that could be leveraged into a business. But few understand what it takes to build something of lasting value. In Grit It Done, serial entrepreneur Reid Tileston shares the simple but practical path to building generational wealth through entrepreneurial business ownership.