Download or read book In retrospect this is what it takes to build a successful business written by Kgadi Mmanakana and published by Kgadi Mmanakana . This book was released on 2022-10-14 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here's what I know for sure; To be known in the market, to get clients and achieve a turnover of R1mil, don't happen by chance - it requires intentional strategic planning and execution. It is my dream to see entrepreneurs becoming the 'working class' in their own businesses and being the CEOs not only on business cards, but CEOs of sustainable businesses that can pay them a salary, afford to hire a team, has an office and generates substantial revenue. In the book, I share my learnings (condensed into 10 lessons) from my over 5 years of experience working full-time in the startup community both as an entrepreneur and an entrepreneurial success enabler. The lessons are practical and paradigm shifting intended to give entrepreneurs and SMME operators actionable tips that they can implement immediately to advance their own entrepreneurship skills and unlock the growth of their businesses.
Download or read book In Retrospect this is what it Takes to Build a Successful Business written by Kgadi Mmanakana and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-10-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here's what I know for sure; To be known in the market, to get clients and achieve a turnover of R1mil, don't happen by chance - it requires intentional strategic planning and execution. It is my dream to see entrepreneurs becoming the 'working class' in their own businesses and being the CEOs not only on business cards, but CEOs of sustainable businesses that can pay them a salary, afford to hire a team, has an office and generates substantial revenue. In the book, I share my learnings (condensed into 10 lessons) from my over 5 years of experience working full-time in the startup community both as an entrepreneur and an entrepreneurial success enabler. The lessons are practical and paradigm shifting intended to give entrepreneurs and SMME operators actionable tips that they can implement immediately to advance their own entrepreneurship skills and unlock the growth of their businesses.
Download or read book What it Takes written by Raegan Moya-Jones and published by Portfolio. This book was released on 2019 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Raegan Moya-Jones was told by her overbearing male boss that she didn't have an 'entrepreneurial bone' in her whole body, she almost laughed in his face. What he didn't know was that the business she'd been secretly working on in the small hours of the night after putting her baby to bed, had just hit revenue of $1 million. Today, aden + anais, the swaddling blanket and baby goods company Moya-Jones founded is a global, multimillion dollar franchise and one that Beyonce, Gwen Stefani and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge loyally support. In this clever, relatable and iconoclastic success story, Moya-Jones busts every myth and misconception about women in business and argues that women should embrace the attributes that set them apart from men. Blanket conventions and perceived barriers attached to the female entrepreneur can be transformed into assets and profit - all you have to do is take the leap.
Download or read book Zero to One written by Peter Thiel and published by Crown Currency. This book was released on 2014-09-16 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “This book delivers completely new and refreshing ideas on how to create value in the world.”—Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta “Peter Thiel has built multiple breakthrough companies, and Zero to One shows how.”—Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla The great secret of our time is that there are still uncharted frontiers to explore and new inventions to create. In Zero to One, legendary entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel shows how we can find singular ways to create those new things. Thiel begins with the contrarian premise that we live in an age of technological stagnation, even if we’re too distracted by shiny mobile devices to notice. Information technology has improved rapidly, but there is no reason why progress should be limited to computers or Silicon Valley. Progress can be achieved in any industry or area of business. It comes from the most important skill that every leader must master: learning to think for yourself. Doing what someone else already knows how to do takes the world from 1 to n, adding more of something familiar. But when you do something new, you go from 0 to 1. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. Tomorrow’s champions will not win by competing ruthlessly in today’s marketplace. They will escape competition altogether, because their businesses will be unique. Zero to One presents at once an optimistic view of the future of progress in America and a new way of thinking about innovation: it starts by learning to ask the questions that lead you to find value in unexpected places.
Download or read book Gain Competitive Advantage written by Kgadi Mmanakana and published by Kgadi Mmanakana. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How many times do we persist to force something to work that we already know won’t work? Like holding views, leadership styles and culture that no longer serve our workforce and businesses? How many times do we conform to being stuck in the rut, the bare minimum, and the comfortable zone over restructuring the organizations to make things work, stopping the production of a product that is a nice-to-have (a money bleeder) and investing in what will give sustainable returns? Sometimes to save yourself, your business, you will need to do the hard things. Most people and businesses didn’t swiftly adapt to the Covid19 induced disruption. There were tears that were shed, short-term mistakes and losses made, anxiety and gut-wrenching fear experienced. However, that knowing that that was going to be the "New Normal" enabled them to do it afraid. And that’s bravery. Leading at the edge of chaos, through crisis and recessions is not easy. Changing organizational culture which at times get you face to face with your own biases and ineffective outlook, is not easy. For a person who’s used to having the final say is not easy to “allow” your workforce to be entrepreneurial and let their innovative ideas catch fire. For an ever-solo entrepreneur may not be easy to start delegating and “losing control”. All these necessary calls for change and transformation require you to be brave and courageous. They require brave leadership and courageous culture. In Gain Competitive Advantage, the author, Kgadi Mmanakana, introduces brave leadership and courageous culture as the birthplace of competitive advantage and shares 10 practical strategies that business leaders, team leaders, managers, divisional directors and executives can use to unlock employee engagement, drive team performance and build resilience to maintain relevance in a constantly changing world.
Download or read book Build a Successful Business The Entrepreneurship Collection 10 Items written by Joe Knight and published by Harvard Business Review Press. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 2106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn what it takes to build a great business with this digital collection curated by Harvard Business Review; it contains everything you need to know about entrepreneurship, from leadership traits and a willingness to fail to financial intelligence and tips for building a business case. Includes Financial Intelligence for Entrepreneurs; Fail Better; Heart, Smarts Guts, and Luck; Entrepreneur’s Toolkit; HBR on Entrepreneurship; HBR Guide to Building Your Business Case; HBR Guide to Negotiating; How I Did It; and the Harvard Business Review articles “Five Stages of Small Business Growth,” and “Why Entrepreneurs Don’t Scale.”
Download or read book Entrepreneurs written by John Thompson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-03-30 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition completely up-dates the text and takes account of recent work. New material replaces existing information so that individuals such as Michelle Mone (taking on giants) and Ken Morrison, and the stories of Yo Sushi and Lonely Planet are included.The following features are incorporated :Social enterprises (which generate income) are separated from community based ventures which are more grant dependent. The story of Aspire will be introduced and The Storm Model Agency The chapter on the Entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley is to be re-crafted and moved towards the end of the book. It covers both the entrepreneurs and the process and context issues that have helped explain the Silicon Valley phenomenon. The New Internet Entrepreneurs chapter is now to come immediately after Chapter 4 and will be rewritten to include new stories on E-Bay (success) and e-Toys (failure).. There is to be a stronger section on the characteristics of 'The Entrepreneur Enabler' - people who advise and support entrepreneurs . Web support materials and worked examples are to be written for academic adoptions.
Download or read book You Can t Win a Race With Your Mouth written by Howard A. Tullman and published by BlogIntoBook.com. This book was released on 2019-04-01 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 300 straightforward, plain-spoken principles which are crucial to the successful launching and development of a new start-up today in almost any technology-driven marketplace. Tullman's 50 years of valuable and profitable experience relating to new business development, technology, people, products and services, customer satisfaction and just about everything else there is to the art of being a serial entrepreneur are the powerful foundation for a different kind of how-to book based on actual client and customer projects, programs and solutions written frankly by someone who has done it over and over again.
Download or read book Launching a Startup in the Digital Age written by Howard A. Tullman and published by BlogIntoBook.com. This book was released on 2015-11-09 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Howard Tullman has successfully founded more than a dozen high-tech businesses in his 50 year career and created more than $1 billion in investor value as well as thousands of new jobs. Tullman is the CEO of 1871 in Chicago where digital startups get their start. He is also the General Managing Partner of two venture funds: Chicago High-Tech Investment Partners and G2T3V, LLC, which both focus on funding disruptive innovators. He is the former Chairman and CEO of Tribeca Flashpoint Media Arts Academy in Chicago. He is an active member of numerous city, state and civic boards and organizations and a tireless supporter and mentor to many start-ups and other businesses and individuals. Launching a Startup in the Digital Age is a collection of Tullman’s straightforward, plain-spoken principles which are crucial to the successful funding and launching of a new start-up today in almost any technology-driven marketplace.
Download or read book Fundraising in the Digital Age written by Howard Tullman and published by Blog Into Book. This book was released on 2015-07-22 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Howard Tullman has successfully founded more than a dozen high-tech businesses in his 50 year career and created more than $1 billion in investor value as well as thousands of new jobs. Fundraising in the Digital Age is a collection of Tullman’s straightforward, plain-spoken principles which are crucial to the successful funding, launching and development of a new start-up today in almost any technology-driven marketplace. Tullman writes a regular weekly blog on The Perspiration Principles for Inc. Magazine on a variety of start-up topics. This book, however, focuses specifically on Fundraising in the Digital Age.
Download or read book Pioneers of Digital written by Mel Carson and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2012-10-03 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pioneers of Digital showcases the stories behind key people who have fundamentally influenced the way advertising, marketing, search and social media have evolved during the internet era. Springer and Carson have tracked down and documented behind-the-scenes insight, decisions and opinions that inspired digital phenomena such as Virtual Reality, Dove's "Real Beauty" campaign, Obama's 2008 presidential campaign, celebrity take-up of Twitter and Artists Without a Label, a free digital music distribution service for independent artists. The 20 digital entrepreneurs profiled span the globe; some performed their ground-breaking work in environments like Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Victors & Spoils, OgilvyOne, R/GA, AKQA, Sapient Nitro and Apple, while others performed digital miracles all on their own. Together these stories expose the secrets of success from pioneers that everyone can learn from. Packed full of unique insight, Pioneers of Digital provides advice and inspiration for readers interested in twenty-first century commercial online thinking. More at www.PioneersOfDigital.com The pioneers: Thomas Gensemer MyBO and Obama's 2008 Presidential Campaign June Cohen Hotwired and TED.com Denzyl Feigelson iTunes Advisor and Artists Without A Label Vanessa Fox Google and Nine By Blue Gurbaksh Chahal ClickAgents and BlueLithium Jaron Lanier Virtual reality and Microsoft Research Angel Chen OgilvyOne China John Winsor Victors & Spoils Danny Sullivan Search Engine Land Alex Bogusky, Bob Cianfrone Burger King's Subservient Chicken Avinash Kaushik Digital marketing evangelist, Google Carolyn Everson MTV Networks and Facebook Malcolm Poynton Dove Campaign for Real Beauty Qi Lu Yahoo!, Microsoft and Bing Ajaz Ahmed AKQA Martha Lane Fox Lastminute.com and the UK government's digital champion Kyle MacDonald One Red Paperclip Jess Greenwood Contagious Magazine and R/GA Zhang Minhui Sohu.com.cn Stephen Fry
Download or read book The Corporation in the Twenty First Century written by John Kay and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2024-08-29 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A brilliant analysis of how business really works. Informative, funny, and full of deep insights' Mervyn King 'A very entertaining read' Evan Davis For generations, we have defined a corporation as a business run by a capitalist elite, that uses its accumulated wealth to own the means of production and exercise economic power. That is no longer the reality. In the twenty-first century, our most desired goods and services aren't stacked in warehouses or on container ships: they appear on your screen, fit in your pocket or occupy your head. But even as we consume more than ever before, big business faces a crisis of legitimacy. The pharmaceutical industry creates life-saving vaccines but has lost the trust of the public. The widening pay gap between executives and employees is destabilising our societies. Facebook and Google have more customers than any companies in history but are widely reviled. John Kay, one of the greatest economists of our time, describes how the pursuit of shareholder value has destroyed some of the leading companies of the twentieth century. Incisive and provocative, this book redefines successful commercial activity and leadership, the knowledge economy and what the future of the modern corporation might be.
Download or read book e Riches 2 0 written by Scott FOX and published by AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn. This book was released on 2009-05-27 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you’re running an online business or looking to expand the web presence of your brick-and-mortar company, you'll need surefire marketing techniques if you want to attract more customers and make the kind of money you deserve. Following on the success of Internet Riches, top e-business entrepreneur and coach Scott Fox shares the powerful but simple marketing strategies that will propel your business to a whole new level of success. Combining inspiring stories with step-by-step instruction, e-Riches 2.0 reveals how to: • build a fan base around yourself, your product, and your business • build your email list • use the latest e-marketing tools, including blogs, online video, email newsletters, search engine marketing, podcasting, keyword ads, autoresponders, affiliate programs, RSS feeds, Twitter, social bookmarking, and social networks like Facebook, LinkedIn, and MySpace • energize your online copywriting skills • pitch a news story...then be ready to convert visitors once it brings them to your site Packed with inspiring stories, insider secrets, and cutting-edge tools, this practical, money-making guide is your ticket to online success.
Download or read book Agile Retrospectives written by Esther Derby and published by Pragmatic Bookshelf. This book was released on 2006-07-26 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Project retrospectives help teams examine what went right and what went wrong on a project. But traditionally, retrospectives (also known as “post-mortems”) are only held at the end of the project—too late to help. You need agile retrospectives that are iterative and incremental. You need to accurately find and fix problems to help the team today. Now Esther and Diana show you the tools, tricks and tips you need to fix the problems you face on a software development project on an on-going basis. You’ll see how to architect retrospectives in general, how to design them specifically for your team and organization, how to run them effectively, how to make the needed changes and how to scale these techniques up. You’ll learn how to deal with problems, and implement solutions effectively throughout the project—not just at the end. This book will help you: Design and run effective retrospectives Learn how to find and fix problems Find and reinforce team strengths Address people issues as well as technological Use tools and recipes proven in the real world With regular tune-ups, your team will hum like a precise, world-class orchestra.
Download or read book Disruptive Innovation The Christensen Collection The Innovator s Dilemma The Innovator s Solution The Innovator s DNA and Harvard Business Review article How Will You Measure Your Life 4 Items written by Clayton M. Christensen and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2011-07-19 with total page 909 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clayton Christensen’s definitive works on innovation—offered together for the first time Will you fall victim to disruptive innovation—or become a disruptor yourself? Tip the odds in your favor with the bestselling books that have made Christensen one of the world’s foremost authorities on innovation. You’ll also get his award-winning HBR article, full of inspiration for finding meaning and happiness in your life using the principles of business. The 4-volume collection includes: The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail In one of the most influential business books of our time, Christensen introduced the world to the concept of disruptive innovation, showing how even the most outstanding companies can do everything right—yet still lose market leadership. Don’t repeat their mistakes. The Innovator’s Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth Citing in-depth research and theories tested in hundreds of companies across many industries, Christensen and co-author Michael Raynor provide the tools organizations need to become disruptors themselves. The Innovator's DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators Christensen and coauthors Jeffrey Dyer and Hal Gregersen identify behaviors of the world’s best innovators—from leaders at Amazon and Apple to those at Google, Skype, and the Virgin Group—to show how you and your team can unlock the code to generating and executing more innovative ideas. “How Will You Measure Your Life?” (HBR article) At Harvard Business School, Clayton Christensen teaches aspiring MBAs how to apply management and innovation theories to build stronger companies. But he also believes that these models can help people lead better lives. In this award-winning Harvard Business Review article, he explains how, exploring questions everyone needs to ask: How can I be happy in my career? How can I be sure that my relationship with my family is an enduring source of happiness? And how can I live my life with integrity?
Download or read book Love is Just Damn Good Business Do What You Love in the Service of People Who Love What You Do written by Steve Farber and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2019-09-06 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of The Radical Leap and Greater Than Yourself comes the first book to directly address love as a hard-core business principle that generates measurable results It’s time to toss aside the touchy-feely notions of love in business and acknowledge the real power that it holds. Love is not only appropriate in the context of business, it’s the foundation of great leadership. To put it bluntly: love is just damn good business. That’s the simple but profound truth that leadership consultant Steve Farber has discovered in his extensive work with Fortune 100 companies and other successful businesses. His game-changing approach to love as a practical business strategy will help you to: • Identify your passions—and share them with others • Create a culture of love at work—and spark innovation, productivity, and joy • Serve your customers, so they love how you treat them—and have them coming back for more • Invest time in making personal connections—that are mutually rewarding • Focus on serving the needs of others—they’re going to love it • Do what you love—and make it your business, so others love it, too The proven principles you’ll find in this book will help you lay the groundwork for a thriving, competitive enterprise. When love is part of your organization’s framework and operationalized in its culture, employees and customers feel genuinely valued. Employees who are passionate about the work that they do are more loyal, innovative, creative, and inspired, and that translates to great customer experience. They don’t serve others out of obligation, but because of a genuine desire to improve people’s lives. And when customers reciprocate by loving your products, your services, and your people, that’s when something great happens. That’s when you get loyalty. That’s when you get raving fans. It’s a refreshingly human way of doing business. In addition to Farber’s field-tested strategies, you’ll find inspiring case studies from a wide range of industries and leaders, revealing self-assessment quizzes, and practical pointers on how to build a corporate culture based on love, the ultimate competitive advantage. At the end of the day, it’s just damn good business.
Download or read book China Forever written by Poshek Fu and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The transnational history and cultural politics of the Shaw Brothers' movie empire
