The Entrepreneur S Guide To Successful Leadership

It's one thing to come up with a good business idea, and quite another to marshal the people, money, and other resources entrepreneurs need to make the dream a successful reality. That's why most businesses fail within the first two years. The Entrepreneur's Guide to Successful Leadership helps budding moguls make it out of the toddler phase of entrepreneurship and into adolescence and adulthood with confidence. A concise and practical guide to leading smaller enterprises, the book is based on a proven, nine-step model of effective leadership developed by Dan Goldberg—the founder of the For Eyes optical chain—and entrepreneur and educator Don Martin. Step by step, readers learn what real leadership looks like and how to lead and grow the successful enterprise. Creating a vibrant business starts with understanding who you are, say the authors, and then coming up with a vision, mission, and strategy. That's the easy part. The hard part is to execute the strategy in line with your dreams, while using effective, ethical tactics to establish the business and prosper. Seasoned hands, the authors make that job easier, while helping entrepreneurs understand what makes employees tick and helping them become their productive best. The hard work not only gets easier, say the authors—it pays off as entrepreneurs watch their fledgling businesses take graceful flight. This book is a treasure chest that provides key insights and methods in the form of real-life stories, humor, strategies, techniques, exercises, checklists, templates, and other resources. Each illustrates in a unique way how good leaders achieve powerful results. Many books on leadership are gimmicky. The Entrepreneur's Guide to Successful Leadership focuses—in clear, simple, and direct terms—on the essential fundamentals, the blocking and tackling, required for business success.

Leaderpreneur takes a comprehensive look at the steps needed to create a successful startup business in any field, gain the loyalty and respect of employees, and survive changes in the market or your industry. The author gives you all the fundamentals from screening & hiring to weeding out ineffective people, leadership, team building and relationship skills, finances, budgeting, planning, growth or scaling, and dealing with challenges and obstacles. Learn what it takes to be an organizer, leader, and entrepreneur in your own right, how to gain the trust of your team so everyone is a valued asset to the company, and how to avoid the pitfalls that cause a great percentage of startups to fail in the first five years. If you want to begin a business of your own, Leaderpreneur is the place to start. By learning the methods and approaches presented here--methods that have been honed by decades of successful leaders and entrepreneurs--your chances of survival in the cutthroat world of business stands a greater than average chance of not only surviving, but flourishing through profit, growth and effective leadership.

The final entry in this all-you-need-to-know series summarizes the best points in the previous 12 books, updates many of them, and integrates must-have knowledge into a unified, indispensable whole. Entrepreneurs need authors who will speak to them as equals, sharing the secrets they found as they built their own businesses. Crafted in that spirit, Praeger's Entrepreneur's Guide series provides practical, accessible, and authoritative advice on the major considerations in establishing and growing a new venture. Each book includes wisdom, tales from the trenches, worksheets, templates, sample documents, and resource lists to help entrepreneurs leverage their time and money. The Entrepreneur's Guide to Running a Business distills and shares the important points from each of the series' previous books, making the road to success smoother and more certain. This culmination of the professional development series takes the reader through all the important steps of starting and running an enterprise. It includes such essentials as writing the business plan, hiring the team, raising capital, managing technology, doing market research, and, of course, marketing the product. Once the business is up and running, the book can be consulted for advice on managing growth and inspiring and retaining employees, as well as for knowledge about handling crises and flourishing even during a recession.

Containing the ideas, practices, and histories of Silicon Valley vice presidents, directors, and chief technical officers with more than 400 man-years of experience running engineering teams, this resource discusses everything one needs to know to successfully operate a hi-tech engineering organization.

Be a Wolf: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Becoming a Leader of the Pack is the story of a husband-and-wife entrepreneur team who met with unusual success and did so in an unusual way. We're Andrea and Allen Beach, two people who left corporate America to fulfill a long-held aspiration to own our own business and to put our entrepreneurial skills to the test. Adopting the wolf as our mascot-an animal at the top of its food chain with outstanding survival skills and a "pack mentality" of team spirit and playfulness-more than fourteen years ago we turned our backs on secure, successful corporate careers to answer "the call of the wild." With very little capital, we launched Argus Connection, Inc., a people-oriented technology services company, and within five years we made more than $8 million. Today, thanks to our innovative style of leadership and our company's highly skilled "wolf pack," Argus has expanded to a full services and staffing company serving some of the biggest names in business, with offices in five cities and more than 100 employees. Now we're eager to share everything we know about launching a successful business. With the first-time entrepreneur in mind, Be a Wolf chronicles the story of how we quickly reached the pinnacles of success and how readers can join us in being leaders of the pack, too.

Leading a growing business means going places where that business and perhaps that leader have not been before. Uncharted territory means dangerous territory.The path to success will be taken more rapidly, more securely and there is more time to enjoy the journey when there is a good map available.For leaders of independent businesses, The Effective Entrepreneur offers the guidance of a good map complete with helpful travel hints. It is addressed to and for the leader personally.There are many books about business. Here, the focus is on the leader and what the leader should do personally. It unashamedly encompasses the personal life of the leader, from inner feelings through to non-business relationships and interests.The Effective Entrepreneur clearly addresses the concerns of independent business leaders as these responses from the fi rst two business people to review its pre publication draft show:"You wrote this book just for me didn't you John?"Managing Director, £1.5 million software company"You must have thinking about me when you wrote this..."Managing Director, £30 million clothing retailerThe happy result of adopting the lessons of The Effective Entrepreneur is not just less stress and more fulfilment for the business leader but even better business performance too.

This practical book takes the entrepreneur past the business plan and into the toughest business game they'll ever face—self-management for daily and long-term success. Focusing on the internal blocks, obstacles, and struggles all entrepreneurs face sooner or later, The Entrepreneur's Guide to Mastering the Inner World of Business shows how these unrecognized self-imposed barriers make it difficult to work at peak levels of performance. This guide will help readers explore perceptions of themselves, utilize leadership competencies, and identify weaknesses, frustration, and fears, managing each of these factors to enhance business growth and profitability, work performance, and a more satisfying life. Each chapter of the book concentrates on a difficult, universal problem entrepreneurs may face, such as managing doubt, worry and indecision, remaining innovative even during stressful times, coping with loneliness, confronting overwhelming "busy-ness," discovering the meaning of success and managing it, climbing up from failure and despair, and knowing oneself. "Ask Yourself" questions help the reader identify the particular issue within him/herself. "Practices" suggest proven solutions for those issues based on those the author has taught to thousands of business leaders.

As the owner and CEO of a small or midsized business, the success or failure of your operation begins and ends with you. But success doesnt just mean earning profits. To truly be a leader, you must strive to improve the welfare of your employees, stakeholders, and others allied with your business by envisioning and implementing a strategy for success. Make the right decisions with the guidance of author Oswald R. Viva, a longtime entrepreneur and business coach, using this straightforward manual. Youll be jotting down notes nonstop as you learn how to: motivate yourself to the best CEO you can be; create a work culture that cultivates achievement; delegate and make employees accountable; improve every aspect of your organization. This guide points you to the knowledge that can help you make the right decisions even in the toughest situations. Its Lonely at the Top, but when you seek out the right guidance and make educated moves, you can accomplish your objectives, become a better leader, and increase profitability for your small or midsized business.