Bounce!

ISBN-13: 9780470224083 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 256 str.

Barry J. Moltz

Opis

Conventional business wisdom tells you that there's always something to learn from failure. Not true, says Barry Moltz. Sometimes, failure just stinks. Bounce explains how success and failure are simply normal outcomes in the regular lifecycle of a business and that process over the long term matters far more than individual outcomes. This book shows you how to build a business that can "bounce" through these cycles for long-term success. If you run a business, better make it Bounce

Spis treści

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

Chapter 1 Get Ready for Adventure: You Have Never Heard a Speaker Like This Before.

Chapter 2 Archetypes of Success: Be Careful What You Wish For.

Chapter 3 I ve Got Your One–Hit Wonder: 867–5309.

Chapter 4 The World from Here: Start Where You Are.

Chapter 5 Forget the Archetypes: Messy Lines Teach Humility.

Chapter 6 Failure Is an Option: Flying Fear in Formation.

Chapter 7 Embracing Failure When It Happens.

Chapter 8 Failure Provides Choices.

Chapter 9 Do It Anyway: Be a Smart Risk Taker.

Chapter 10 A Little DAB Will Do Ya! Drive, Accept, and Build.

Chapter 11 Goal Setting: Establishing Your Own Scorecard.

Chapter 12 No Longer Black and White: Measure for Success in Technicolor.

Chapter 13 Read This Book Then Throw It Away.

Afterword.

Summary: The Ten Building Bands for True Business Confi dence.

Biographies of Featured Less–than–Famous Businesspeople.

Notes.

Index.

O autorze

Barry J. Moltz has founded and run busi–nesses with a great deal of success and failure for more than fifteen years. After successfully selling his last operating business, he founded an angel investor group and an angel fund, and is a former advisor to the Board of the Angel Capital Education Foundation. He has been elected to the Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame and is currently a business consultant and an internationally acclaimed speaker. He is also the author of You Need to Be a Little Crazy: The Truth About Starting and Growing Your Business, which is available in five languages.
To contact Barry or for the free companion workbook to Bounce!, go to www.barrymoltz.com.

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Praise for Bounce!

"Bounce ! will transform fears into confidence and define your own brand of success. Brilliant!"
DR. JOE VITALE, author of The Attractor Factor

"Moltz shows us that when we recognize failure as simply part of any business experience and approach it with humility and endurance, we can all have the true confidence we need for future success."
MICKEY KONSON, Vice President, Small Business Solutions, Capital One

"Bounce! is about how to build long–term business confidence through success and failure. Moltz captures the essence of resiliency by helping businesspeople learn from all of the business outcomes they experience over their career."
ALAN A. BROWN, Executive Vice President, Nuveen Investments

"Thank you, Barry Moltz, for getting past the ′you can turn it around′ cheerleading and the ′failure is your teacher′ balms that are supposed to somehow ease our pain when we hit bottom in spite of our best efforts. Thank you for taking a hard, honest, and often humorous look at failure for what it really is, and most of all for providing some real practical advice for getting through it."
SCOTT ALLEN, About.com, A New York Times Company

"Read this book twice. Then give it away. Because you will forever know how to bounce with any challenge, crisis, or failure. In fact, this book really is about your next great success."
MICHAEL PORT, author of Book Yourself Solid

"Can you Bounce? This is the book about the inevitable failures we all will experience and how we can best survive them. Moltz offers no false hope . . . just real tools for developing the resilience needed for sustained success."
STEVEN S. LITTLE, author of the bestseller The 7 Irrefutable Rules of Small Business Growth

"Afraid of failure? Just Bounce!"
DANIEL H. PINK, author of A Whole New Mind