Start at the End

Start at the End
Author: David Lavinsky
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2012-10-23
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1118417445

Re-focus your business plan and achieve the success your business deserves Business owners, and their teams, often lose their way in the midst of the day-to-day stress of generating sales and profits. Whether your goal is selling millions of your product, expanding operations to a new location, or generating more profits, Start at the End offers a unique approach and action steps for business owners and entrepreneurs to redevelop your business plan and achieve ultimate success. You'll learn how to re-create your long-term vision and then make continuous progress in achieving that vision while continuing to hit your short-term goals. Start at the End offers inspiring stories of other entrepreneurs who have achieved significant success in this area, as well as easy-to-follow exercises and next steps. Shows how to develop a realistic business and financial model based on market data Explains how to identify and pursue new opportunities, raise capital, and build growth strategies Start at the End gives business owners a chance to take a step back, re-evaluate your business, and redesign your business plan to achieve the success you dreamed of when you first launched your company.

Built to Grow

Built to Grow
Author: Royston Guest
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2016-09-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1119318130

‘This book is straightforward, factual and to the point. Any Leader responsible for business growth should read it! A blueprint full of practical ideas and tools to inspire you into action’—Craig Donaldson - Chief Executive Officer, Metro Bank (RANKED NUMBER ONE IN GLASSDOOR’S HIGHEST RATED CEO 2016) If you asked a cross-section of business leaders, business owners and entrepreneurs what their biggest business challenge is, you would probably hear the same recurring thought: growing their business in a sustainable, predictable, yet profitable way – quickly. It’s a reality that most businesses and individuals never reach their full potential, always yearning for the ‘thing’ that will catapult them into significance, but never really finding it. Whether you’re an entrepreneur starting out, or a director, executive or business leader climbing the corporate ladder, the building blocks of Built to Grow are universally applicable. Developed in the real world laboratory of thousands of businesses in twenty-seven countries spanning over two decades, Built to Grow is a proven, time-tested model to unlock the real potential in your business. Avoid the common pitfalls of a trial and error approach to business growth. Built to Grow is full of practical strategies, tools and ideas, backed up with real world case studies to illustrate what can be achieved - leaving you equipped to transform your businesses performance and drive tangible results. Built to Grow is destined to become your handbook, your ‘go to’ guide, your roadmap to accelerated, sustained and profitable business growth.

Stall Points

Stall Points
Author: Matthew S. Olson
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2008-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 030014542X

In this probing study of the growth experience of Fortune 100-sized firms across the past fifty years, authors Olson and van Bever find that great companies stop growing not because of market saturation, government regulation, or other external constraints but rather because of a finite set of common strategy mistakes that appear time after time, across industries, across geography, and across the economic cycle."--Jacket.

Motivation

Motivation
Author: Brian Tracy
Publisher: AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn
Total Pages: 131
Release: 2013
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0814433111

Most of your employees have all the ingredients for greatness inside them already. They simply need you to motivate them. Learn how today!

Achieve BIG – Belief, Influence, and Growth

Achieve BIG – Belief, Influence, and Growth
Author: Rocky Noronha
Publisher: Notion Press
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2021-08-13
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 163904728X

“If you try to control growth, you will not discover your Life.” Achieve BIG – Beliefs, Influence, and Growth will help you discover your potential and inspire you to think, act and excel. Suppose you are looking to make a difference from ordinary life to extraordinary, chase bigger dreams and bring transformational self-awareness, this book will stimulate your authentic version, fuelling inner power to change what you see in your well-being. For stepping up to a higher-level growth, you need to pass through pain and challenges and learn to manage criticisms. A self-help book will ignite your thoughts, unleashing your potential to break the boundaries of self-limiting beliefs. You will discover who you are and what you want to be. • Believe in yourself in the pursuit of achieving BIG Dreams • Explore power in you to influence growth • Build your fortune castle with five self-discoveries • Impact of your self-awareness, belief and circle of influences • LIFE illuminates with Food, Exercise and Spirituality. • Achievers build upon their weakness and expand on their strengths • Find inspiring poems to believe in ‘YOU’ as you are possible. You will inspire and believe in standing out to achieve personally and financially, distancing the average life as history. “Success is the first understanding yourself and then, connecting yourself to others.”

Why Startups Fail

Why Startups Fail
Author: Tom Eisenmann
Publisher: Currency
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2021-03-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0593137027

If you want your startup to succeed, you need to understand why startups fail. “Whether you’re a first-time founder or looking to bring innovation into a corporate environment, Why Startups Fail is essential reading.”—Eric Ries, founder and CEO, LTSE, and New York Times bestselling author of The Lean Startup and The Startup Way Why do startups fail? That question caught Harvard Business School professor Tom Eisenmann by surprise when he realized he couldn’t answer it. So he launched a multiyear research project to find out. In Why Startups Fail, Eisenmann reveals his findings: six distinct patterns that account for the vast majority of startup failures. • Bad Bedfellows. Startup success is thought to rest largely on the founder’s talents and instincts. But the wrong team, investors, or partners can sink a venture just as quickly. • False Starts. In following the oft-cited advice to “fail fast” and to “launch before you’re ready,” founders risk wasting time and capital on the wrong solutions. • False Promises. Success with early adopters can be misleading and give founders unwarranted confidence to expand. • Speed Traps. Despite the pressure to “get big fast,” hypergrowth can spell disaster for even the most promising ventures. • Help Wanted. Rapidly scaling startups need lots of capital and talent, but they can make mistakes that leave them suddenly in short supply of both. • Cascading Miracles. Silicon Valley exhorts entrepreneurs to dream big. But the bigger the vision, the more things that can go wrong. Drawing on fascinating stories of ventures that failed to fulfill their early promise—from a home-furnishings retailer to a concierge dog-walking service, from a dating app to the inventor of a sophisticated social robot, from a fashion brand to a startup deploying a vast network of charging stations for electric vehicles—Eisenmann offers frameworks for detecting when a venture is vulnerable to these patterns, along with a wealth of strategies and tactics for avoiding them. A must-read for founders at any stage of their entrepreneurial journey, Why Startups Fail is not merely a guide to preventing failure but also a roadmap charting the path to startup success.

The Granularity of Growth

The Granularity of Growth
Author: Patrick Viguerie
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2011-01-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1118045475

While growth is a top priority for companies of all sizes, it can be extremely difficult to create and maintain—especially in today’s competitive business environment. The Granularity of Growth will put you in a better position to succeed as it reveals why growth is so important, what enables certain companies to grow so spectacularly, and how to ensure that growth comes from multiple sources as you take both a broad and a granular view of your markets.

Stretch!

Stretch!
Author: Graeme K. Deans
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2004-02-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0471646849

Learn how to achieve sustained business growth even in the toughest economic times. Author A.T. Kearney surveyed some 29,000 global companies over fourteen years and studied more than eighty companies in depth, in order to determine how the best companies continue to grow in good times and bad. Based on this extensive research and on the best practices of the most successful companies, Stretch! presents a practical, step-by-step plan for positive organic growth.

Shortcut to Business Success

Shortcut to Business Success
Author: Ozana Giusca
Publisher: Ozana
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2014-07-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1499790376

SHORTCUT TO BUSINESS SUCCESS: 101 Zero-Cost Tactics to Take Your Company to the Next Level is a collection of best practices and strategies used by Fortune 500 companies adapted for small business owners. Are you putting all your time and energy into your business but still struggling to make a living? Or have you achieved some success, but seem unable to grow your business further? Or perhaps you have ideas for a new business, but are not quite sure how to go about it. This book will help you to turn your business into an effective and efficient 'money-making machine' and to create even more success in your life and business. It provides simple real life examples to explain business tactics. Each of the 101 tactics concludes with a short exercise that will make it easy to start working on your business using that tactic. If you are serious about growing your business, it is essential that you apply these tactics right away. In Shortcut to Business Success, small business growth expert Ozana Giusca shows you how to: attract more customersgrow your salesincrease internal efficiencyget the most out of your teambe a better leadersustain your business long-termtake that giant leap to get your business to a higher level As a bonus you also receive the ultimate marketing framework for your business; that is, your marketing strategy on one page, including everything you need to consider to attract more and better customers. "Hits the mark! Shortcut to Business Success is refreshingly full of professional and relevant information, written in an engaging and contemporary style. A must read for the entrepreneur who truly wants to succeed." Gerry Robert, Founder/President of Black Card Books Publishing Company "Ozana is an entrepreneur with great vision and a unique approach. She was able to link business best practices into management tools to address the business potential. Smart. Succinct. Professional. That's Ozana." Henrique Setton, Entrepreneur, Owner of Silicon House "This book is based on principles used by the most successful companies. Having read Shortcut to Business Success, I can recognise such tactics being used by multinational companies in my daily life. And best of all, it gives a clear line of action." Andy Harrington, Business Owner, UK’s #1 Public Speaking Expert "If you are looking for a very hands-on approach to building your business from the ground up, Ozana has nailed it in Shortcut to Business Success. What a purposeful read for anyone who is an entrepreneur or small business owner." Bill Walsh, America’s Small Business Expert

Blitzscaling

Blitzscaling
Author: Reid Hoffman
Publisher: Currency
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2018-10-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1524761427

Foreword by Bill Gates LinkedIn cofounder, legendary investor, and host of the award-winning Masters of Scale podcast reveals the secret to starting and scaling massively valuable companies. What entrepreneur or founder doesn’t aspire to build the next Amazon, Facebook, or Airbnb? Yet those who actually manage to do so are exceedingly rare. So what separates the startups that get disrupted and disappear from the ones who grow to become global giants? The secret is blitzscaling: a set of techniques for scaling up at a dizzying pace that blows competitors out of the water. The objective of Blitzscaling is not to go from zero to one, but from one to one billion –as quickly as possible. When growing at a breakneck pace, getting to next level requires very different strategies from those that got you to where you are today. In a book inspired by their popular class at Stanford Business School, Hoffman and Yeh reveal how to navigate the necessary shifts and weather the unique challenges that arise at each stage of a company’s life cycle, such as: how to design business models for igniting and sustaining relentless growth; strategies for hiring and managing; how the role of the founder and company culture must evolve as the business matures, and more. Whether your business has ten employees or ten thousand, Blitzscaling is the essential playbook for winning in a world where speed is the only competitive advantage that matters.