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Simply Success
How to Start, Build and Grow a Multimillion Dollar Business the Old-Fashioned Way
Jack Miller (Author)
9780470224526, Wiley
Hardback, published 7 March 2008
240 pages
23.6 x 16.3 x 2.3 cm, 0.431 kg
"... delightful book." (Reading Chronicle)
In Simply Success, the former chairman and founder of Quill Corporation presents key lessons of entrepreneurship, including how to get started, set a vision, finance the business, and build a successful corporate culture. Based on his own experience, Miller shares his most hard-earned lessons, so you can avoid learning the same lessons the painful way. For entrepreneurs young and old, or even if only dream of starting a business one day, this book is a guiding light to a successful enterprise.
Introduction 1 Chapter 1. A Bit of History 5 Chapter 2. What It Takes to Be an Entrepreneur 27 Chapter 3. Getting Started 33 Chapter 4. Financing 39 Chapter 5. The Miracle of Hard Work 47 Chapter 6. The Magic of a Vision 53 Chapter 7. Focus: Putting on the Blinders 61 Chapter 8. Concentrate on Your Customer 71 Chapter 9. There is a Better Way 79 Chapter 10. Plotting Your Course with Strategic Planning 85 Chapter 11. Implementation: Making It Happen 91 Chapter 12. Forecasting and Budgeting 99 Chapter 13. Using Your Financial Statements to Get Where You Want to Go 105 Chapter 14. You Can, Too, Argue with Success! 111 Chapter 15. Building a Great Corporate Culture 117 Chapter 16. Shaping a Winning Organization 133 Chapter 17. Who Controls Your Life? 147 Chapter 18. Easing the Burden 153 Chapter 19. Doing More by Doing Less 159 Chapter 20. Your Growth as a Leader 165 Chapter 21. Someone Changed the Rules. Why Wasn’t It Me? 173 Chapter 22. About the Lifelong Learning Process 179 Chapter 23. The Art of Survival 185 Chapter 24. How to Do Almost Everything Wrong 191 Chapter 25. About Advisors and Boards 203 Chapter 26. A Family Business Can Be Great—or . . . 209 Chapter 27. The Glory of the Free Enterprise System 215 Index 219
Subject Areas: Business & management [KJ]
