How To Build A Black Belt Business

Many Martial Arts Instructors have a desire to run a Martial Arts Club, School or Dojo. But whatever they call it, and however they regard it, when they open, they enter the world of business - a world for which many are unprepared. No Martial Arts Syllabus contains modules on 'how to attract new students without wasting money on useless advertising', or 'how to plan to improve the retention rate of your students', or on 'the best options for collecting tuition fees'! This book is written to give you the knowledge your Syllabus missed out. It's not a 'how to sell out on your Martial Art Principles' book, but, rather, it's a 'Business Lessons for the Martial Artist' book, or, if you like... "How to Become a Black Belt in Business." One thing is for sure, if you are going to enter the 'World of Business' it's better for you to be a 'Business Black Belt', than a novice 'Business White Belt'!

A black belt means strength, speed, flexibility, quickness and power. Business Black Belt draws from the martial arts to offer hard-won advice for building and running a business today. It is unlike like anything you've read before. In fact, very few people have ever addressed these business topics at all. Business Black Belt introduces real-world situations you will face while building your business. Seventy short chapters cover crucial topics--your attitude, managing, marketing, selling, employees, money, MBAs, lawyers, consultants, and investors--and show you how to use the mental discipline of a karate master to skillfully build your business. Business Black Belt is packed full of the potent lessons Burke learned during the past three decades working with expert consultants, entrepreneurs, and business owners.

Although Lean and Six Sigma appear to be quite different, when used together they have shown to deliver unprecedented improvements to quality and profitability. The Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Handbook: Tools and Methods for Process Acceleration explains how to integrate these seemingly dissimilar approaches to increase production speed while decreasing variations and costs in your organization. Presenting problem-solving tools you can use to immediately determine the sources of the problems in your organization, the book is based on a recent survey that analyzed Six Sigma tools to determine which are the most beneficial. Although it focuses on the most commonly used tools, it also includes coverage of those used a minimum of two times on every five Six Sigma projects. Filled with diagrams of the tools you’ll need, the book supplies a comprehensive framework to help you for organize and process the vast amount of information currently available about Lean, quality management, and continuous improvement process applications. It begins with an overview of Six Sigma, followed by little-known tips for using Lean Six Sigma (LSS) effectively. It examines the LSS quality system, its supporting organization, and the different roles involved. Identifying the theories required to support a contemporary Lean system, the book describes the new skills and technologies that you need to master to be certified at the Lean Six Sigma Black Belt (LSSBB) level. It also covers the advanced non-statistical and statistical tools that are new to the LSSBB body of knowledge. Presenting time-tested insights of a distinguished group of authors, the book provides the understanding required to select the solutions that best fit your organization's aim and culture. It also includes exercises, worksheets, and templates you can easily customize to create your own handbook for continuous process improvement. Designed to make the methodologies you choose easy to follow, the book will help Black Belts and Senseis better engage their employees, as well as provide an integrated and visual process management structure for reporting and sustaining continuous improvement breakthroughs and initiatives.

Increase revenues quickly with the ideas in this international bestseller: “I love this book!” —Joe Girard Are you looking for proven revenue-generating strategies to grow your sales immediately? In Get Your Black Belt in Marketing, you’ll learn eighty-one moves to cut through the marketing clutter. Covering such topics as building quality relationships; creating and working your database; the three ways to grow sales and the three types of customers; establishing a brand, and much more, these fast, effective moves can make you a master at marketing. “A must for anyone serious about succeeding in business.” —Joe Girard, named “World’s Greatest Salesman” by the Guinness Book of World Records

This handbook is a helpful guide to Six Sigma process improvement and variation reduction. Individuals studying to pass the ASQ Certified Six Sigma Yellow Belt (CSSYB) exam will find this comprehensive text invaluable for preparation, and it is also a handy reference for those already working in the field. The handbook offers a comprehensive understanding of the Body of Knowledge (BoK), which will allow readers to support real Six Sigma projects in their current or future roles. This handbook, updated to reflect the 2022 BoK, includes: - A detailed explanation of each section of the CSSYB BoK - Essay-type questions in each chapter to test reading comprehension - Numerous appendices, a comprehensive list of abbreviations, and a glossary of useful terms - Online contents, including practice exam questions - Source lists, which include webinars, tools and templates, and helpful publications

A super practical guide to building a successful business by spending ninety minutes a day on the stuff that really matters. Have you got a brilliant business idea, but are not sure how to find the time to start making it a reality? Or perhaps you have your dream up and running but you need help to grow? Join best-selling author and multi-award winning entrepreneur, Nigel Botterill, and his co-author Martin Gladdish, as they explore the history, wisdom and uncanny natural phenomena that surrounds each 90 minute chunk of time that we live in and equip you with the tools to think big, grow fast and build your successful business in those 90–minute chunks! Build Your Business in 90 Minutes A Day reveals lessons from the true stories of everyday entrepreneurs who dedicate 90 minutes a day to building their success. Woven amongst these inspirational tales are the remarkable accounts of world-changing events from English history, space and popular culture, that were determined in just 90 minutes. Amidst pages of startling science fact surrounding this magical number, you will learn just how powerful it can be when applied to your life. An hour and a half will never seem quite the same again. Nigel has built eight separate million pound+ businesses from scratch and won a shed full of awards in the process. No one knows better than him what it takes to build big businesses fast! Designed to be read in just 90 minutes (plus a few extra bits) Packed with tools to help you think big, grow fast and build a successful business A mixture of wisdom, teaching and success stories from Nigel Botterill and the entrepreneurs he has helped