Deals with 'what, when and why'; with policies and decisions; opportunities and risks, structures and strategies; staffing, compensation and rewards. In addition to managers in various types of business, this title is intended for lecturers and students of management and business studies.

The totally revised edition of a groundbreaking bestseller, first published in 1986, provides information and guidance in starting and maintaining a small business or franchise in the 1990s.

Teaches you: how to outsource your life to overseas virtual assistants for per hour and do whatever you want; and how blue chip escape artists travel the world without quitting their jobs. Thsi book also shows how to eliminate 50 per cent of your work in 48 hours using the principles of a forgotten Italian economist.

The author examines issues such as the rightness of web-based applications, the programming language renaissance, spam filtering, the Open Source Movement, Internet startups and more. He also tells important stories about the kinds of people behind technical innovations, revealing their character and their craft.

Provides details about building organizations that prosper long into the twenty-first century and beyond, and also about visionary companies. This book contains specific examples and is organized into a coherent framework of practical concepts that can be applied by managers and entrepreneurs at various levels.

Contains the author's popular columns from Fast Company magazine and many of the short e-books he has written in the years. This book includes e-books such as: Clinging to Your Job Title? ; The Persistence of Really Bad Ideas ; The Seduction of 'Good Enough' ; and, Judging a Book by its Cover Do Less .

Helps to find the entrepreneurial advice you need to run a business such as: recognizing great entrepreneurial opportunities; writing a business plan and building your financial statements; securing financing with venture capital or debt financing; franchising your business; managing a growing business; and, protecting intellectual property.

Guides students in discovering the concepts of entrepreneurship and the competencies, skills, tools, and experience to equip students to launch a venture and recognize entrepreneurial opportunities. This book presents students to many of the vital issues.

What happens when there is almost unlimited choice? When everything is available to everyone? When the combined value of the millions of items that only sell in small quantities equals or even exceeds the value of a handful of best-sellers? This book shows that the future of business does not lie in hits, but in what used to be regarded as misses.

Every new project (or career or relationship) starts out exciting and fun. Then it gets harder and less fun, until it hits a low point - really hard, really not fun. Winners quit fast, quit often and quit without guilt - until they commit to beating the right Dip for the right reasons. This book helps you do just that.

The author of the entrepreneur handbook, The E-Myth Revisited, builds on previously defined philosophies to reveal why entrepreneurs are critical to the success of any enterprise, in a guide that discusses seven key skills in the areas of leadership, money management, and :customer service.

Reveals that innovation is not as unpredictable as most managers have come to believe. This book argues that while the outcomes of past innovations seem random, the process by which innovations are packaged and shaped within companies is very predictable.

Can a good company become a great one and, if so, how? After a five-year research project, the author concludes that good to great can and does happen. Here, he uncovers the underlying variables that enable any type of organization to make the leap from good to great while other organizations remain only good.

Balram, the White Tiger, was born in a backwater village on the River Ganges, the son of a rickshaw-puller. He works in a teashop, crushing coal and wiping tables, but nurses a dream of escape. When he learns that a rich village landlord needs a chauffeur, he takes his opportunity, and is soon on his way to Delhi behind the wheel of a Honda.

Illustrates what's wrong with the mainstream thinking that we should sacrifice our lives to make a living. This book advices readers to make work pay not just in cash, but in experience, satisfaction, and joy.

Features Sir Richard Branson's ventures in the areas of health, environment, media and, exploration. This memoir also features insights into his family life. It Sir Richard's philosophy on business, the Virgin brand and life.

A definitive biography of the enigmatic and highly respected business legend.

If you dream about growing your business to a billion, this study tells you the seven key things innovators did in common to become America's greatest growth companies.