Leading Your Business To The Next Level

Companies that have survived the perils of startup face an entirely new and different set of challenges as the firm prospers and grows. For owners, executives, managers, and employees alike, the evolution of an enterprise from entrepreneurship to maturity is aruduous and requires a talent for managing constant change, both in the marketplace and in the company itself. Setting your company on a trajectory of profitable growth—and getting past that crucial break—even point—requires fundamentally different strategies, skills, and techniques from what worked in startup mode. Any forewarning puts entrepreneurial leaders ahead in coping with the obstacles over the next hill. Leading Your Business to the Next Level provides that forewarning and offers practical management approaches that will make the growth journey less hazardous and more rewarding. Drawing from the authors' combined 70+ years of experience working in and consulting to high-growth organizations, the book provides a toolkit for navigating the transition from the chaos, intensity, and informality of the startup to the relative order of the more established firm. Through illustrative case examples and interactive elements, including checklists and diagnostics, they demonstrate how mastery of six core disciplines is the key to achieving and sustaining profitable growth: * enhancing customer loyalty; * dynamic planning and budgeting; * executing the business plan; * maximizing leadership effectiveness; * changing the emphasis from sales/revenue to margin/profit; * positioning human resource management as a strategic asset. In an environment where over 50% of small businesses fail in the first year and 95% within five years, Leading Your Businesss to the Next Level will help you and your organization make the critical transition from startup to mature and growing business.

Proven success formulas and strategies to become great leaders and successful entrepreneurs. International author and leading authority on business and transformational change Glen Michaelides shares his secret "In the Trenches" powerful tools and strategies used in his own multi-million dollar businesses giving you the "Behind the Curtain Look" generally only reserved for the rich, creating an unfair advantage for your business and ultimately your life. You'll learn:- Essential strategies to harness the power of thoughts for maximum results and creating a compelling future- How to stop sabotaging your success and how to overcome this dangerous mistake- 7 proven steps to driving a hype of activity into your business that could translate into millions of dollars in your bank account- The little known psychological effect of gaining clarity and learn how to harness this to get exactly what you want- How to position yourself as the authority and industry leading expert in your field- How to stop the 3 killers of effectiveness from hijacking your productivity and profits- How to get to your next level of health, happiness, knowledge and abundance. "I enthusiastically endorse Glen Michaelides for his business coaching and personal mentoring. Glen was able to identify some strategic competitive advantages we were able to apply to our high profile power fitness gymnasium, to up our membership extensively. Glen left no stone unturned with his approach in ensuring we had a real rubber to the road plan. I can assure you that working with Glen will produce positive results." - Peta and Adam Baker, 'Bodybuilding Champions' Power Fitness, Perth WA

This is the 2nd edition-New 3rd edition publishes on October 30th-refer to isbn 9781473697324.. Much as Good to Great described what seperates top companies from the rest, The Next Level: What Insiders Know about Executive Success shows executives what seperates leadership success from failure at the next level. Every day, high performers are tapped to be executives and then left alone to figure out how to succeed in their new role. When this happens, most executives rely on strengths that served them well earlier in their careers. As executive coach Scott Eblin explains, this is why 40 percent of them fail. Moving successfully to the executive level requires knowing which behaviors and beliefs to let go, as well as which new onces to pick up. This confidence-building book outlines a program for success based on frank advice from accomplished senior executives around the world on what to do and, just as important, what to avoid. Like having a personal executive coach at your side, this valuable book shows you what to pick up and let go of to be successful at the next level. This fully revised edition of The Net Level is an essential addition to any leadership development or executive education toolkit.

Entrepreneurs have many choices when choosing a business start-up guide. But once they're up and running, there's nothing to show them how to improve profits and manage their company better. The Next Level: Grow Your Business is the guide small business owners have been waiting for. Filled with expert advice, Grow Your Business takes the entrepreneur through fifteen areas in which they can improve their business, providing detailed steps on how to make it happen. Small business owners looking to take it to the next level will learn how to: - Fine-tune sales and marketing skills - Manage time and get organized - Control the financial reins - Hire and manage employees - Grow their customer base - Operate more powerfully - Overcome operational crisis Filled with tips, questionnaires, checklists and invaluable advice, The Next Level is the next big thing for small business guides.

In this perfectly compact read, #1 New York Times bestselling author John C. Maxwell explains how true leadership works. It is not generated by your title. In fact, being named to a position is the lowest of the five levels every effective leader achieves. To be more than a boss people are required to follow, you must master the ability to inspire and invest in people. You need to build a team that produces not only results, but also future leaders. By combining the advice contained in these pages with skill and dedication, you can reach the pinnacle of leadership-where your influence extends beyond your immediate reach for the benefit of others. Derived from material previously published in the Wall Street Journal bestseller The 5 Levels of Leadership.

Stepping Up: A Game Plan for Leading Your Business to the Next Level...and Thriving Once You're There Revised 2011 Edition This book is unique in terms of: * The need it addresses: Universally, executives need to determine if their organizations can achieve future success only by stepping up to the next level of sophistication. Like the baseball player who goes from the minor leagues to the major leagues or the actor who graduates from dinner theater to Broadway, the next level represents the same game, but with a significantly higher level of competition, customer expectations, and complexity. Readers who determine that they need to step up are taken through a 7-step process for getting to the next level and succeeding once they've arrived. * Its audience: It is geared equally to CEOs and division heads in large and medium-sized organizations and to owners of small businesses for whom the next level may be more modest. * Its format: It is a workbook that poses questions and provides blanks in which readers/users record their answers. This process guides executives--or, in larger organizations, executive teams--to the decisions and actions needed to step up in their unique situations. Readers leave the book with a game plan that includes actions, responsibilities, and completion dates. * Its length and style: It is the length of a pop best seller and uses the language seen in that type of book. However, it doesn't leave the reader hungry an hour later; it has the substance of a book that is considerably longer and more difficult to absorb.

Praise for the first edition of Up Your Business! "Dave Anderson has hit another home run! Up Your Business! is an invaluable, highly readable guide that should be on the desk--and in the mind--of anyone demanding top-level performance from themselves and others." --James Strock, author, Reagan on Leadership and Theodore Roosevelt on Leadership "Up Your Business! is a powerful blueprint for companies looking to take their business to the next level. It is one of the most powerful books on business and leadership I have ever read and will be a major component of Saga Communications' leadership training." --Warren Lada, Senior Vice President, Saga Communications, Inc. "Once again, Dave Anderson puts it all together in a way that almost makes you think he's been looking over your shoulder all these years. Chapter two alone, 'Abolish Corporate Welfare: Create a Culture of Merit,' is worth the time it takes to read the entire book." --Mike Roscoe, founder and President, Horizon Communications "Finally . . . a business book that gets to the heart of what matters and creates usable templates that could help any business thrive." --Roxanne Emmerich, author, Thank God It's Monday!