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"Entrepreneur Christiane Lemieux offers a guidebook to the new rules of entrepreneurialism and teaches young founders how to get ahead with profiles from successful entrepreneurs such as Leslie Blodgett at Bare Minerals, Justin Woolverton at Halo Top and Robert Wang at Instant Pot"--
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Often downplayed in the excitement of starting up a new business venture is one of the most important decisions entrepreneurs will face: Should they go it alone or bring in cofounders, hires, and investors to help build the business? This book aims to examine the early decisions by entrepreneurs that can make or break a startup and its team.
3) Mommy millionaire: how I turned my kitchen table idea into a million dollars and how you can, too!
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"Real-world advice, secrets and lessons on how to make a million dollars, from a mom who turned her kitchen table idea into a successful business while keeping her family and kids Job #1. This book will give you tools to create your fortune, including: how to develop and patent an idea while saving thousands; how to make a cold call; how to get on QVC; how to work a trade show; how to develop an "elevator pitch"; how to break down the doors of big...
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With this book, potential entrepreneurs will learn how to "transition their side hustle into a full-time business; build a sustainable business that's structurally sound; develop strategies to address their business objectives; identify and attract their target audience to increase clientele; [and] establish a brand that's trustworthy and authentic"--
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"This book is a call to action for addressing problems like climate change, clean energy, and healthcare access on a grand scale, leveraging an ecosystem of public/government resources and private sector, technology-focused organizations. Chapters are framed around cases and profiles from over 20 ventures across technology, healthcare, climate, and education. The authors construct a model for impact, on that starts with rebuilding trust among society,...
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An expert on ethical leadership analyzes the complicated history of business people who tried to marry the pursuit of profits with virtuous organizational practices-from British industrialist Robert Owen to American retailer John Cash Penney and jeans maker Levi Strauss to such modern-day entrepreneurs Anita Roddick and Tom Chappell.
Today's business leaders are increasingly pressured by citizens, consumers, and government officials to address urgent...
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Companies that are owned and run by families need to develop leadership and entrepreneurial skills just like any other company, but family firms face obstacles that 'hire and fire' companies don't. Family dynamics rarely perfectly mirror the best practices in the latest Harvard Business Review. So what factors in the family and work environments enable the creation of leaders who share the entrepreneurial fire of the founders? Do specific education,...
8) The Business Solution to Poverty: Designing Products and Services for Three Billion New Customers
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Right now, the number of people living on $2 or less a day is more than the entire population of the world in 1950. These 2.7 billion people are not just the world's greatest challenge; they represent an extraordinary market opportunity. By learning how to serve them ethically and effectively, businesses can earn handsome profits while helping to solve one of the world's most intractable problems. The key is what Paul Polak and Mal Warwick call Zero-Based...
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Professional Projectionist, Clem Harrod, brings over 25 years of knowledge and experience to his company CLEMCO.AV. He established the organization with the mission to Coach, Lead, Educate and Mentor those studying Audio-Visual Technology and working in the Live Event Production Industry. Clem now focuses his energy on helping Independent Contractors enjoy a life with less stress and more financial opportunities. Through his career in Video Projection,...
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Avoid the speed trap! Discover how changemakers can find lasting solutions to urgent social problems through a proven 5-step process for listening thoughtfully, building broad support, and exploring unconventional options.
Society celebrates leaders who promise fast, easy solutions to the world's problems-but quick fixes are just mirages that fade, leaving us with the same broken systems. The truth is, effective social change happens through slow,...
11) Tap the Big Idea
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Buckle up and get ready for a raw, unfiltered ride as Josh Goodman goes from being a guy who couldn't get a drink in a busy bar to building a multimillion-dollar technology company that lets guests pour their own beer, wine, and cocktails and pay by the ounce.
Travel with Goodman to Ireland, where he spent a week driving around the entire country to secure his first business partners-who eventually tried to put him out of business. Then, visit northern...
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Dolly Parton once said, "Find out who you are and do it on purpose." Many people today are coasting on autopilot, with no passionate connection to the routine work they do day in and day out. The good news is that it doesn't have to be this way. In The Passion Belief Method, entrepreneur success strategist and in-demand life and business coach and speaker Megan Tull offers practical exercises and methods to help you find your gifts and turn them into...
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Frost & Sullivan's 2014 Growth, Innovation, and Leadership Book of the Year In business, performance is key. In performance, how you organize can be the key to growth. In the past five years, the business world has seen the birth of a new breed of company-the Exponential Organization-that has revolutionized how a company can accelerate its growth by using technology. An ExO can eliminate the incremental, linear way traditional companies get bigger,...
14) Intrapreneuriat : dépasser la mythologie des super-héros: Rapport de l'Observatoire de l'Innovation
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Comprendre l'intrapreunariat en dépassant l'entreprenariat.
Réalisée dans le cadre d'un partenariat entre l'Observatoire de l'Innovation de l'Institut de l'Entreprise et le Centre de Recherche en Gestion (i3-CRG) de l'École polytechnique, l'étude « Intrapreneuriat : dépasser la mythologie des super-héros » est née du constat partagé d'un déficit de compréhension, à la fois au niveau théorique et opérationnel, des leviers de performance...
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Ready to grow your business?
Many successful business owners and professionals got where they are today because they have a remarkable network of connections and trusted referral partners.
Whether you are just now starting a new business, looking to uplevel your career, or simply feeling "stuck" in a sluggish economy, now is the time to get back to basics:
• Nurture your existing referral relationships
• Expand your network by reaching out to...
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When collaboration works, the results can be breath-taking! But it doesn't always deliver on its potential. Collaboration has been defined as "an unnatural act practiced by non-consenting adults". And often that's exactly what it is! Some collaboration can be painfully difficult with the result that problems are either ignored or smoothed over until the collaboration falters or disintegrates, or self-interest and personal agendas take over and
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Do you want to own a business that does not confine you to a desk, where you are able to make your own hours and as much money as you want to work? According to the U.S. Department of Labor's most recent statistical data, the median annual income of someone in the vending industry is $29,000 and, as a business owner, you could make even more. If this sounds like something you would enjoy, and you are thinking about opening a vending business, then...
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If you can slice a melon or make a right-hand turn, you can be a breakthrough innovator. The title of this book, Cause a Disturbance, says it all, and it most assuredly will cause a disturbance in the way you think about business: your business. Everyone knows-and everyone talks about-how important innovation is in the competitive battle to find, delight, and keep customers, yet far too few achieve it. As Tencer and Cardoso explain, "There's a big...
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Charlie Reading has combined his own experience as a business owner with his research from business books, workshops and courses led by other successful entrepreneurs to create the system he calls 'entrepreneurial happiness'. This book provides a culmination of business ideas for all leading entrepreneurs to make their business more profitable and achieve a healthy work life balance. The system to create entrepreneurial happiness is there in front...
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Following the success of 2016's The Disruptors comes the next book on social entrepreneurs and social enterprises. Interest in the social enterprise movement by the formal business sector is growing, as social entrepreneurs often operate in highly complex and constrained environments and offer corporates and other businesses the opportunity to learn new ways of managing and leading. Meet the next crop of Disruptors: social entrepreneurs navigating...
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