Jeff Shavitz On Small Business Ahamessages

Are you ready to profit NOW from the small business boom? As an entrepreneur and independent businessperson, you have the coveted position of being the one in charge of . . . everything. To help you succeed in business, Jeff shares his perspectives and truisms on what helped him start and manage a successful business. This book shares his personal and professional observations, challenges, and rewards of operating small businesses. From successfully growing your start-up to enjoying the benefits of being cash-flow positive to ultimately planning your exit strategy, Jeff shares his advice with insight, empathy, and a healthy dose of humility in 140 shareable AhaMessages(TM). Jeff Shavitz on Small Business AhaMessages(TM) is a companion work to Jeff Shavitz's book, Size Doesn't Matter - Why Small Business Is BIG Business. This book will be your coach and confidant as you reflect upon your own journey in the world of small business. Learn from Jeff, relate to him, feel for him, and laugh with and at him as you enjoy and benefit from his words of wisdom. Jeff Shavitz on Small Business AhaMessages(TM) is part of the THiNKaha series, whose slim and handy books contain well-thought-out AhaMessages. Increase your influence by picking up the Aha Amplifier and easily share Jeff's quotes on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Google+.

Are you ready to profit NOW from the small business boom? In Size Doesn't Matter: Why Small Business Is Big Business, serial entrepreneur Jeff Shavitz encourages you to do so - but only if you're cut out for it. To help you make the leap (and to succeed once you do), Jeff details his personal and professional experiences, observations, challenges, and rewards in operating small businesses. After having paid his corporate dues as an investment banker at Lehman Brothers in the 1980s, Jeff started and sold three companies, making him an expert with real-life experience on entrepreneurship. Now it's his passion to help his fellow small business owners navigate their careers through the turbulent and exciting times that come along with the much-coveted position of being the one in charge ... of everything. From successfully growing your business from start-up to enjoying the benefits of being cash-flow positive to ultimately planning your exit strategy, Jeff shares his advice with insight, empathy, and a healthy dose of humility. Size Doesn't Matter will be your coach and confidant as you reflect upon your own journey in the world of small business. Learn from Jeff, relate to him, feel for him and laugh with and at him, as you enjoy and benefit from his words of wisdom.

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For many years, a silent and important war has been fought between two nations. On the one side, there’s Credibility Nation which is composed of humans who go about life and their business with credibility and servant leadership. On the other side, there’s Dubious Nation which is composed of humans who live and conduct their business with self-interest as their highest priority. Dubious Nation is on a winning streak and is vanquishing Credibility Nation a thousand times over. It’s shocking to see how many people are forgetting how important it is to live and transact business in a credible way. I believe that there’s still hope. There’s still a way for Credibility Nation to win. It definitely won’t be easy, and it won’t happen in a day, but we can do it. The path toward credibility starts with seeing and acknowledging that the world has changed. We used to live in a village economy where people did business with a handshake. That was a time when people exchanged goods and services for other goods and services without using money. In that kind of economy, when a proprietor's product didn’t live up to expectations, the villagers would either self-correct or ostracize. After the village economy, we transitioned to and are now in the industrial age. Didn't we leave the industrial age and move into the Internet age. Sort of. What we've done is to primarily use technology to extend the processes, rules, and approaches to business and life that were developed in the industrial age. The industrial age is a time where power and status are everything. The higher you rise on the corporate ladder, no matter what means you took to get there, the more successful and happier you become. The industrial age is dominated by self-satisfaction and self-interest. Today, we’re slowly transitioning to the global village. It is similar to the village economy with the big difference being our reach. We can now reach and need to be aware of millions of people from around the world. The keys to success and happiness in the global village are credibility and relationships. Since technology has enabled us to connect with more people, how we live and do business can easily be seen. Thus, presenting ourselves as credibly as we can allows others to want to get to know, like, and trust us. I wrote this book with the intention of enlightening humanity about what credibility truly is, how important it is as we move forward to the future, and how we can transform ourselves into credible humans. My hope is that this book will serve as a wake-up call, a reminder, and a blueprint for those who want to join me in this movement toward credibility. Now, take a look at yourself. Are you more in alignment with Credibility Nation than Dubious Nation? Or maybe, it’s the other way around. If you feel you're more dubious than credible, that’s okay. Don’t worry. There’s always room for change and transformation. There will always be people who will lend you a helping hand and guide you toward credibility. The doors of Credibility Nation will always be open to those who are willing and ready to transform themselves into better human beings. It’s up to you to take that first step. Will you take it? We need you to be the human you know in your heart you want to be. Please join me in this epic battle against Dubious Nation. The goal in my lifetime is to tip the scale.

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Small businesses power America. Defined as firms with fewer than 500 employees, they provide jobs for more than half of our private workforce and represent 99.7 percent of all businesses in the United States. So in our uncertain economic climate, "'The 24-Hour Turnaround'," with its focus on small business success in a turbulent economy, fulfills a pressing need. The authors, "Jeffrey S. Davis" and "Mark Cohen," are uniquely qualified to write this book--a compilation of case studies highlighting entrepreneurial styles, innovations and triumphs. Since 1985, their consulting company, Mage LLC, has guided over 700 small businesses and organizations on issues ranging from marketing and sales to organizational and transitional issues. This book pinpoints the most common situations Mage LLC has encountered with entrepreneurs and owners of private companies. The case studies, based on the authors' extensive experience with individual entrepreneurs and their organizations, highlight means and methods by which business leaders can achieve their visions and goals, regardless of the nature of the market or the economy. "'The 24-Hour Turnaround'" focuses on leadership, attitudes, strategies and tactics. It enables entrepreneurs to turn a keen analytical eye on their business trajectories and their own leadership styles. It demonstrates the benefits of change, and teaches entrepreneurs how to go about making real change that creates business stability, growth and success. It narrates outlines and situations that entrepreneurs can immediately relate to and offers models for making quick and concrete modifications, remaining open to new ideas while still honoring tradition and company history. Designed as a practical and easy-to-read guide, "'The 24-Hour Turnaround'" enlightens and empowers the small business leader or entrepreneur who wishes to steer a business to success, all within the challenges of a shifting, uncertain economy.

For many reasons, corporations that can't figure out how to continuously improve become non-competitive and sometimes go out of business. Competition is never idle. Therefore, companies must not only improve, but they must also do so at a more rapid pace than the competition if they want to keep existing. Even if a corporation has a competitive advantage and high margins right now, they will lose those if they don't make continuous improvement in their company's DNA. That's because their competitors are consistently making an effort to improve their processes so they can deliver a better product at a better price. According to the CEO survey conducted by John Ballis, father of M.A.R.I.S., the two main reasons for failure in continuous improvement are ineffective communication and using different approaches, methodologies, and toolsets repeatedly. The CEO may acquire new tools to improve their existing process, but this is not a guarantee that continuous improvement will happen or that the company will stay competitive in the years to come. The answer is not something that comes from the outside, but from teaching managers and employees to continuously improve. Continuous improvement is a pursuit to constantly evolve into something better. It's a never-ending cycle of moving the business process toward lower operational costs and increased customer satisfaction. This cycle brings the steering wheel back to the CEO, the board, and the workforce, who are the best people to introduce improvement in the company. Their unity encourages them to think of the most impactful ideas that will make the company stand out from the competition. In this book, John Ballis coaches CEOs and managers on how to create a highly engaged employee culture that will ultimately lead to a state of sustainability. This kind of culture will help the corporation sustain high satisfaction scores from customers because their workforce delivers products that are on time and complete and have the best quality. Even without the CEO being physically there, they can be assured that their employees are capable of improving every day, every month, and in the years to come. This is a state of sustainability that far outlives the CEO.