Jamie S. Walters

Big Vision, Small Business: 4 Keys to Success Without Growing Big

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Produktbeschreibung

While most of the business world worships size and constant growth, Big Vision, Small Business celebrates the art-and power-of small. Based on interviews with more than seventy small-business owners and on her own experiences as a successful small-business entrepreneur, Jamie Walters shows how a business can stay small and remain vital, healthy, and rewarding. If you long to run a successful, socially conscious enterprise as one element of a fulfilling personal life, Big Vision, Small Business shows you how. Covering growth options and small-enterprise advantages, inspired visioning, communication, and right-relationship, mindset issues and expectation management, and wisdom and mastery practices, Big Vision, Small Business is a must-read for every entrepreneur and futurist.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Blackstone Publishing
• Revised
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: Oktober 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 154mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 367g
• ISBN-13: 9781576751886
• ISBN-10: 1576751880
• Artikelnr.: 21296605

Autorenporträt

Jamie S. Walters is founder of Ivy Sea, Inc., a "small size, big impact" organizational consulting firm. The firm's award-winning public service website, Ivy Sea Online, (www.ivysea.com) has been recognized by Harvard Business School, About.com, Entrepreneur's Edge, The CEO Refresher, Edu-Leadership, and others as one of the best Internet sites for small-enterprise owners, entrepreneurs, and organizational leaders.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: The Great Power of Small Enterprise
Acknowledgments
SECTION ONE:
Key No. 1: There’s More Than One Way to Define Growth
Chapter 1: Finding Quality in the Land of Quantity
Chapter 2: Appreciating the Power of Small Enterprise
Chapter 3: Which is Better, Big or Small?
Chapter 4: Moving from Quantitative Growth to Qualitative Evolution
Chapter 5: Profiles in Growth
SECTION TWO:
Key No. 2: To Live Large, You Have to Vision Big
Chapter 6: Vision in the Smallest Enterprises
Chapter 7: Twelve Priorities of Big-Vision Small Businesses
Chapter 8: The Guiding Vision
Chapter 9: Vision Profile: The Cat Doctor
Chapter 10: To Plan or Not to Plan
Chapter 11: Approaches to Visioning and Planning
SECTION THREE:
Key No. 3: Right Relationship Is a Big-Vision Craft
Chapter 12: Right Relationship as a Pathway for Qualitative Growth
Chapter 13: Golden Rules for Right Relationships
Chapter 14: Creating Right Relationships with Employees
Chapter 15: Maintaining Right Relationships with Employees
Chapter 16: Creating Right Relationships with Customers
Chapter 17: Maintaining Right Relationships with Customers
SECTION FOUR:
Key No. 4: To Live from the Source, Replenish the Well
Chapter 18: Wisdom and Mastery in Business
Chapter 19: Money and Risk
Chapter 20: Competition
Chapter 21: Success and Failure
Chapter 22: Time and Balance
Chapter 23: Wisdom and Mastery Practices
Parting Thoughts
Notes
Bibliography and Reading Guide
Index
About the Author