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LEADing Small Business by Stewart Barnes,Steve Kempster,Sue Smith Pdf
This is one of the first books to fully value and realise the connection between leadership and learning in SMEs. It provides a real-life narrative, encapsulating the development of business people on a leadership programme for SME managers, whilst exp
Management and Leadership Skills that Affect Small Business Survival by Jamey M. Long Pdf
Have you ever wondered why many of the over 28 million small businesses in operation in the United States do not survive past the first five years? Is it the economy? The stock market? Or is it something else? Two years of research on factors affecting small business survival revealed a direct relationship linking management and leadership skills. ‘Management and Leadership Skills That Affect Small Business Survival’ presents the research leading to this discovery that focuses solely on small businesses in the United States and teaches small businesses how to improve management and leadership skills so that they can survive past the historical five-year failure mark.
Management and Leadership Skills That Affect Small Business Survival by Jamey Long Pdf
Have you ever wondered why with over 28 million small businesses in operation in the United States why many do not survive past the first five years? Is it the economy? The stock market? Or is it something else? After spending two years of research on this subject, a direct relationship linking management and leadership skills was found to affect small business survival. Read the research that led to this discovery that focuses solely on small businesses in the United States and learn how to improve your management and leadership skills so that small businesses can survive past the historical 5-year failure mark in the new book Management and Leadership Skills that Affect Small Business Survival.
Small Business Management and Control of the Uncertain External Environment by Konstantinos Biginas,Stavros Sindakis,Antonia Koumproglou,Vlasios Sarantinos,Peter Wyer Pdf
This edited collection investigates the potential impact of long-term planning and strategic awareness on the ability of SMEs to remain competitive. The authors demonstrate that whether SMEs are able to identify and act upon external forces and factors, or not, is the defining indicator of their likelihood to struggle, survive, or thrive.
Leadership and Small Business by Karise Hutchinson Pdf
This innovative book combines theoretical and practical perspectives with the power of storytelling to present a new understanding of leadership as a concept and endeavour in the small business organisation. With the assertion that leadership capability is a key function of small firm survival and growth, it underlines the importance of addressing the phenomenon within small business. Employing storytelling as a fresh alternative to a traditional case study approach, the narrative of leading with purpose in real time is captured alongside relevant and current academic debate. In building upon the Harvard model of purpose driven leadership, the author offers a new definition and discussion of leadership that connects theory to real impact, based on research carried out with UK small business organisations. The overall aim of the book is to provoke interest in small business leadership and generate new knowledge of leading with purpose.
The Small Business Guide To Getting The Best From Your Team by Richard Parkes Cordock Pdf
As the owner or director of a small business, you know how important your people and teams are to your company’s success. Having motivated, engaged, driven teams, who are focused on your customers, in-tune with your goals, and firing on all cylinders is key to your company’s success. Whatever size of business you are, your people are everything -- and positively or negatively, the people you employ have a direct impact on your business results. But getting everybody in your team -- whether that is 5, 10, 100 people or more -- performing each day at their highest level is not easy. It requires strong leadership (from you and your fellow directors) as well as a proactive and thoughtful approach to team development. Whilst your larger competitors have access to big budget team development resources you could only dream about, your ‘small biz’ pockets are not so deep and your investment needs to be more carefully considered. So what can you do as a leader in a small business, to actively develop your team(s) making sure every employee comes to work each day and performs their work at a superior level, and delivers stronger business results for you? Enter Enterprise LEADER.. a ‘low-cost’, ready made team development program which is proven to help small businesses -- like yours -- improve team performance and financial and operational results (i.e. more sales, more customers, more profits, more cash, better service, better quality, better results… faster, quicker, easier and with less resources). In this short and easy to digest guide, you’ll discover how -- as a leader in a small business -- you and your fellow directors can use Enterprise LEADER to develop your own people and teams, so that your workforce truly becomes a key part of your competitive advantage. You’ll discover how you can compete with the ‘big boys’ by bringing the world class people development tools of Enterprise LEADER to your own company... on a tiny budget. Download this guide today, and learn how you can use Enterprise LEADER to develop your own teams and make your own small business ‘stand out’ for its passion and excellence... even against the ‘corporate big boys’ with deeper pockets and richer resources.
Growing a Business by Rupert Merson,The Economist Pdf
Growth is a clear goal for ambitious entrepreneurs and leaders. It's often a short hand for business - and wider economic - success. But it's not without its pitfalls and challenges, and planning for, and managing, a growing business needs careful thought. Take, for example, the start-up facing for the first time the need to balance flexibility with more structure. Or a larger business tackling a range of divisions evolving at different speeds. Or an inspirational owner-founder confronting the need to step back and let other take the business forward. These are the kinds of challenges that Growing a Business tackles head-on. Drawing on a wide range of models and research and using case studies from across the business world, it offers practical advice and guidance on a whole range of topics, including: the different types and stages of growth; predicting the problems presented by growth; identifying growth triggers and barriers; the implications of growth: financially, culturally and for the people involved in the business. Growing a Business is required reading for owners and managers looking to understand a foster growth in their businesses.
Essential Small Business Leadership Skills by Diane Armstrong Pdf
Are you an entrepreneur, determined to learn about the intricacies of starting a business? Perhaps you're already an entrepreneur, but you're struggling somewhat, and you're looking for solutions to the challenges that you're currently facing? Or maybe you're at the start of your career, and you want to know about different strategies you can implement that will help you achieve success in the business world. No matter where you are on your journey as an entrepreneur, this book is the perfect tool for you to take your skillset and success to the next level, with information and strategies that will help you achieve your goals. Essential Small Business Leadership Skills will teach you all of the things that you need to develop your organization and structure, achieve small business growth, and complete complex business tasks. Aren't you tired of constantly working hard but only achieving mediocre success at best? Don't you think it's time that you take your results from average to excellent? If you answered yes to either of these questions, then you won't want to miss out on getting a copy of this insightful and essential book. The aim of this book is to help increase the volume of successful small-scale businesses, and create a generation of entrepreneurs who are well-informed and can combat any challenges that may arise within a business. This is a must-read for anyone intent on starting a business or those that have it in mind to start one in the near future. It offers you practical lessons for business success and highlights skills that every entrepreneur needs. Inside Essential Small Business Leadership Skills, discover: ● Why motivation is absolutely essential ● Emotional intelligence for the modern leader ● Financial planning for small businesses ● The importance of team building ● Business networking and how it works ● The value of critical thinking ● How to market your brand ● The importance of trust and honesty in business ● How to solve problems ● How to tackle time management And much, much more! Ready to take your success to all new heights or hit the ground running with your new business? Grab a copy of Essential Small Business Leadership Skills today, and take your business to the next level! Free Business Downloads included.
BE 2.0 (Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0) by Jim Collins,William Lazier Pdf
From Jim Collins, the most influential business thinker of our era, comes an ambitious upgrade of his classic, Beyond Entrepreneurship, that includes all-new findings and world-changing insights. What's the roadmap to create a company that not only survives its infancy but thrives, changing the world for decades to come? Nine years before the publication of his epochal bestseller Good to Great, Jim Collins and his mentor, Bill Lazier, answered this question in their bestselling book, Beyond Entrepreneurship. Beyond Entrepreneurship left a definitive mark on the business community, influencing the young pioneers who were, at that time, creating the technology revolution that was birthing in Silicon Valley. Decades later, successive generations of entrepreneurs still turn to the strategies outlined in Beyond Entrepreneurship to answer the most pressing business questions. BE 2.0 is a new and improved version of the book that Jim Collins and Bill Lazier wrote years ago. In BE 2.0, Jim Collins honors his mentor, Bill Lazier, who passed away in 2005, and reexamines the original text of Beyond Entrepreneurship with his 2020 perspective. The book includes the original text of Beyond Entrepreneurship, as well as four new chapters and fifteen new essays. BE 2.0 pulls together the key concepts across Collins' thirty years of research into one integrated framework called The Map. The result is a singular reading experience, which presents a unified vision of company creation that will fascinate not only Jim's millions of dedicated readers worldwide, but also introduce a new generation to his remarkable work.
Small Business Management by Tim Mazzarol,Sophie Reboud Pdf
This textbook familiarises students with the theory and practice of small business management and challenges assumptions that may be held about the way small business management can or should adopt the management practices of larger firms. For students interested in establishing and managing their own small firm, this book helps them to focus their thinking on the realities of life as a small business owner-manager – both its challenges and its rewards. For postgraduate students that are keen to ‘make a difference’, this text enables them to understand how they might consult to small firms and assist owner-managers to establish and grow their ventures. In addition to students, this book is also useful to small business owner-managers as a general guide on how they might better manage their operations. Managers in large corporations and financial institutions who deal with small businesses as clients or suppliers, and professionals such as accountants, lawyers and consultants who provide advice and other services to small businesses will also find the book of interest.
This book helps business leaders see how employees, companies, and missions all interact with each other, as well as with society at large, in systems and subsystems at various levels. It helps leaders learn how to connect the dots, becoming customer-centric in everything they do and then spreading the same goals down to their supply chains. The book discusses what is, and what is not, leadership, covering such topics as statistics-based management, process-improvement, and human resources. The author accomplishes this through a blend of Lean culture and managerial theory, as well as his military experience. In addition, the author contrasts many opposing subjects, such as efficiencies of scale versus efficiencies of build, automation versus process improvement, process innovation versus product innovation, technical versus tactical proficiency, and pull versus push production. With most books focused on Lean initiatives, there is a tremendous amount of benefit involved in creating customer value while reducing waste, but this book takes a holistic approach, blending in modern managerial theory, team leadership skills, and economics. The result is a book that changes how the reader approaches business. Essentially, the purpose of this book is to blend modern management theories with the culture of Lean (and perhaps a sprinkling of economics) to show current business leaders how to create organizations that are as customer-oriented and highly efficient in delivering value as possible. If one thinks of each role in an organization as a spot on an assembly line, where everything each person does creates output someone else uses, the question becomes whether or not each person’s activities maximize the effectiveness of others. Do we, as organizations, set ourselves up for success or for failure? Most companies, if they answer honestly, would say, "A little bit of both." This book is about helping those companies improve.
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Many people think leadership is a higher calling that resides exclusively with a select few who practice and preach big, complex leadership philosophies. But as this practical book reveals, what’s most important for leadership is principled consistency. Time and again, small things done well build trust and respect within a team. Using stories from his time at Netscape, Apple, and Slack, Michael Lopp presents a series of small but compelling practices to help you build leadership skills. You’ll learn how to create teams that are highly productive, highly respected, and highly trusted. Lopp has been speaking and writing about this topic for over a decade and now maintains a Slack leadership channel with over 13,000 members. The essays in this book examine the practical skills Lopp learned from exceptional leaders—as a manager at Netscape, a senior manager and director at Apple, and an executive at Slack. You’ll learn how to apply these lessons to your own experience.
Interviews with the chief executive officers of 14 small businesses revealed the leadership challenges that they face. Some of the challenges are the following: (1) creating change; (2) building a robust organization, with a well-defined structure, an effective management team, plans for succession, established delivery systems, and people who have mastery of their jobs; (3) dealing with employee concerns; (4) building solid client/customer relationships; and (5) providing resources. A comparison of the small business leaders' responses to these challenges offers an explanation for the differences in leadership response and the implications these differences have for the leadership development of people running small businesses. Analysis also shows that small business leaders have leadership development needs such as the following: learning to deal with the meshing of family and business relationships; improving the selection and training of top management; developing the ability to be a follower when necessary; developing the ability to work effectively with rules; and creating a learning network for themselves. (Names and companies of the chief executives interviewed are provided.) (KC)
