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"How did Ron Shaich, the visionary founder of Panera Bread, build a little bakery in St. Louis into 2,400 restaurants with 6 billion dollars in revenue and annual returns of 25 percent, outperforming Starbucks, Chipotle, and all others? By seeing the future and clearing a path to it, leading and innovating from the future back. Now, Shaich shares his story, starting with its humble entrepreneurial beginnings: the college-campus convenience store he...
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"For the rising number of free spirits seeking inspiration and a road map to leave their safe but soul-crushing day jobs and chase their dreams, real-life Wildpreneur Tamara Jacobi shares her insights on what it takes to successfully make the leap. Wildpreneurs illuminates how surf guides, ski builders, yoga and wellness instructors, environmental activists, nature lovers, food trucks, podcasters, artisans, and other creatives achieve an adventurous...
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"Built, Not Born is for current or aspiring business owners who feel nervous about the risks of entrepreneurship. Tom Golisano, self-made billionaire and founder of Paychex, believes starting a business isn't as risky as you might think and provides no-nonsense, often humorous advice on how to succeed in all phases of business ownership"--
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"Who really moves things forward in our society and how do they do it? How have they always done it? Strategy guru Roger Martin and Skoll Foundation CEO Sally Osberg make a compelling argument that social entrepreneurs are agents of change who recognize, in our current reality, various kinds of "equilibria"-systems in need of change-and then advance social progress by transforming these systems, ultimately replacing what exists with a new equilibrium....
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"Gray, the son of a single working mother who had him at age fourteen, grew up in deep poverty in Birmingham, Alabama. An academic star, he had every qualification for attending a top college-except for the financial means. Desperate, Gray headed off the beaten path, searching online to apply for every scholarship he could find. His hustle resulted in awards of 1.3 million dollars and became his call to action to help other students win their own...
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Ben Horowitz, co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz and one of Silicon Valley's most respected and experienced entrepreneurs, offers essential advice on building and running a startup -- practical wisdom for managing the toughest problems business school doesn't cover, based on his popular Ben's Blog.
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"Discover the simple, successful formula for facing your fears and finding the courage to Jump into the next chapter of your life. It's time to learn the approach that made serial-entrepreneur Kim Perell a multi-millionaire--and it could make you one too. In Jump, Kim shares her powerful personal story about when her career hit rock bottom and how she summoned the courage to take a life-changing leap into the unknown. Broke, bankrupt, and afraid,...
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The fact is, over 90 percent of all new startups fail. Every entrepreneur must face this harsh reality and learn to master it if they hope to survive and wind up on top. In Surviving a Startup, Steve Hoffman, the CEO of Founders Space, brings you on a wild ride, sharing with them the tumultuous journey of launching a venture-funded startup and revealing what it takes to make it. This one-of-a-kind guide: Provides deep analysis and insights into...
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"Based on thousands of interviews from John Lee Dumas' highly acclaimed podcast, Entrepreneurs on Fire, this revolutionary 17-step roadmap provides a proven path for entrepreneurs like you to achieve the financial, location, and lifestyle freedom you are capable of. Let The Common Path to Uncommon Success show you how. The Common Path to Uncommon Success will: Reveal the critical steps successful entrepreneurs take to achieve uncommon success....
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Aspiring entrepreneurs are told that to launch a business, you must go all in, devoting every resource and moment to making it work. But following this advice comes at an enormous personal cost: divorce, addiction, even suicide. It means sacrificing the intangibles that make life worth living.
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"One of the start-up world's most in-demand executive coaches--hailed as the "CEO Whisperer" (Wired)--reveals why radical self-inquiry is critical to professional success and healthy relationships in all realms of life.Jerry Colonna helps start-up CEOs make peace with their demons, the psychological habits and behavioral patterns that have helped them to succeed--molding them into highly accomplished individuals--yet have been detrimental to their...
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"Author and business coach Jadah Sellner creates a new entrepreneurial model for women, centered around sustainable leadership--a framework they can use to create a business on their own terms, prioritize their wellbeing, and break free from the toxic culture that leads to burnout and overwhelm."--
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"With hard-earned wisdom drawn from a lifetime of experience, David Green helps you drive incredible results in business and life by sharing a fascinating inside look-mistakes and all-at the counterintuitive yet highly effective biblical principles he used to build Hobby Lobby from a 600 dollar start up to a 7 billion dollar enterprise."--
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Many leaders remember those life-changing moments when it suddenly became crystal clear what had to be done to reach their organizations' goals. It wasn't until Pete Luongo was faced with that one epiphany in his life, a difficult period that required him to rebalance life's priorities and bring a new understanding to his work, that he recognized that all results are based upon behaviors appropriate to the circumstances. Through this understanding
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The Nano car disrupted an entire industry and changed the game in India forever. But this inspiring book is more than the story of one ingenious invention. Nanovation explains how revolutionary business thinking and product design can have profound effects on companies, industries, and the world. Discover the thought processes that bred innovation, the leadership that overcame adversity, the risks that were necessary to avoid failure, and how all...
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Faced with the choice of starting a company or joining a large corporation, Steve Jobs believed that it was 'more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy'. But for innovators inside established companies, making a distinction between being a pirate and joining the navy is a fallacy. We have to figure out a way to become Pirates in The Navy!
There is nothing harder in business than trying to innovate within large corporations. Innovators in big companies...
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¿QUÉ HACE QUE LOS GRANDES LÍDERES SOBRESALGAN? Conoce los principios y las filosofías que guían a Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey y muchos otros personajes famosos a través de conversaciones reveladoras sobre sus vidas y sus trayectorias profesionales. Aprende de los directores ejecutivos, presidentes, fundadores y líderes excelentes del mundo...
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You probably created your business because you wanted to solve real-world problems, and in the process, achieve wealth and freedom. However, running your own show is often tougher than expected, you find yourself hustling with pure grit, making mistake after mistake, until you are frustrated and burnt out, especially if you are trying to scale up the company.
If this sounds like where you are now, then this book is for you.
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