Small businesses power America. Defined as firms with fewer than 500 employees, they provide jobs for more than half of our private workforce and represent over 90 percent of all businesses in the United States. In our changing, uncertain economic climate, The 24-Hour Turnaround (2nd Edition), with its focus on stories of small and family-controlled entrepreneurial business success in a turbulent economy, is as relevant as ever.

The authors, Jeffrey S. Davis and Mark Cohen, are uniquely qualified to write this book, a compilation of case studies highlighting entrepreneurial...