Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management

This book investigates both the ethical paragons involved in small business ethical decision-making process and their consequences and the implementation of the right culture in small business as a paragon of stability and growth. Small business is a major component of societies, especially now. Being in leadership positions in small business is something which many times involves tough decisions to be taken. The major question that this book addresses is whether ethical decision making in small business is a paragon that needs to be taken into consideration? Surviving and growing is something which involves many aspects that need to be taken into consideration too. One of them is the human factor, which many consider to be a crucial paragon, more important than even strategy implementation. Under this prism, this book will investigate both the ethical paragons involved in small business ethical decision-making process and their consequences and the implementation of the right culture in small business as a paragon of stability and growth. The author sheds some light into aspects that we all have encountered in our professional lives and which sometimes had major impact on both business and the environment.

A Cynic's Business Wisdom is an entrepreneur's manual from the edgy perspective that cynicism teaches us to have a healthy respect for the unexpected. It equips us to effectively deal with real-world business challenges and capitalize on opportunities. Essentially, it is the flip side of all those "instant-gratification-sugar-coated-success-guaranteed-get-rich-overnight" books. This manual is a keen reflection of converting collegiate knowledge into actions that are intended to give you an advantage in dealing with people, selling, networking, negotiating, managing, and controlling every business situation you find yourself in. It responds to questions posed and issues raised by entrepreneurs, academics, trainers, mentors, and businesspeople over all my years delivering business consulting, and expounds on my advanced business workshops, and on my very own business ventures. Business often is not pretty. Business is not always fair. People are out to win at virtually any cost. Those footsteps you hear are a constant reminder that you have a target on your back. Flexible business ethics are part of empowering you to play by your own rules, recognize that business is a game, nobody owes you a break, there are no black-and-white norms, and that business ethics are flexible. Understand how to play the game to win.

This book presents time and resource management lessons and tips from senior system administrator Giulio D'Agostino and aims to help increase time management skills and raise questions on how to possibly improve them. Time is one of the most precious commodities, especially if you are the system administrator of a ''unicorn company'' (a privately held startup company valued at over $1 billion). In the 2018 year alone, more than 50 startups around the world attained unicorn status with a valuation of $1 billion or more, according to data from venture capital trackers like PitchBook. The nature of time has always been a subject of interest for various disciplines, from neuroscience to economics; now more than ever, with the increasing level of technology in our lives, proper time management has become a fundamental aspect of any successful project. This book presents time and resource management lessons and tips from senior system administrator Giulio D'Agostino and aims to help increase time management skills and raise questions on how to possibly improve them. Learn from more than 20 years of experience in project management working for companies like Google, Apple, Salesforce.com, and Hewlett Packard.

This book focuses on the values of blockchain across industries. If you think that blockchain is everything you don't understand about technology, finance, and law mixed together, then this book will help you appreciate its value more clearly. While it is a complex technology that is still largely experimental today, it will be transformative in the future. This book focuses on the values of blockchain across industries. Among other things, it explores how blockchain technology adds value to data management, security, and sharing as well as ownership, property, collaboration, and trust. It also explores the possibilities of the Blockchain-as-a-Service (BaaS), digital goods or dGoods, and the transformative power of small acts and micropayments.

Business Writing for Innovators and Change-Makers will empower you to build your confidence as a communicator, strengthen your brand, and increase your impact with your customers and clients. Business Writing for Innovators and Change-Makers is a writing guidebook with street-smarts. It recognizes the unique communication challenges entrepreneurs face and offers clear action steps for tackling them. As an entrepreneur with a pioneering product or service to offer the world, you can't rely on cookie-cutter communication templates to get your meaning across. You need a set of writing strategies that are quick to implement and easy to adapt to a wide variety of communication situations, from emails to pitch decks. Dawn Henwood provides a simple, flexible approach to writing that will open your eyes to the subtle ways written communication can engage and motivate your target audience. Whether you are just starting your business or scaling up to the next level of success, you'll find Dawn's straightforward teaching just the help you need to make your message heard. Business Writing for Innovators and Change-Makers will empower you to build your confidence as a communicator, strengthen your brand, and increase your impact with your customers and clients.

THESE STRATEGIES WILL GIVE YOU SUPERPOWERS Many books have been written about the high-performance habits successful entrepreneurs adopt, from their daily meditation to how they lead their teams. For Marina Nicholas, her fascination was more about their entrepreneurial journey. • 1. From Zero: When starting a business, what strategies did they adopt to overcome the odds? • 2. To Hero: As a highly successful entrepreneur, how did they use their wealth to help humanity and the planet? After years of extensive research, Marina discovered that just eight strategies were adopted by billionaire entrepreneurs. PROBLEM-PERSEVERANCE POSITIONING-PROXIMITY-PEOPLE-PARTNERSHIPS-PROCESS-PLANET Whether you enjoy inspirational stories or seek to discover your superpower, the strategies and exercises in this book will help you. Each of the eight strategies is illustrated by real case studies. Over 25 case studies like these: • • A white trouser problem led to a billion-dollar empire • • The invention of a passionate surfer leads to sales of 35 million cameras • • A 7-year journey of poverty and rejection led to a $500 million franchise • • A happy tribe built a $1.2 billion company • • A monk builds a tribe of 35 million followers within 4 years • • A village visit resulted in 100 million pairs of shoes gifted.

This book focuses on the concepts, mindset, philosophy, and qualities of entrepreneurship. There are many books on entrepreneurship available in the market today, but very few speak to the mindset and philosophy required. This book focuses on the concepts, mindset, philosophy, and qualities of entrepreneurship. The author provides guidance and suggest helpful activities at the end of each chapter to inspire the reader to take positive steps toward entrepreneurship. It will teach the reader how to Think, Act, and Practice like an entrepreneur. The book will not only show you how to do it, but it will also provide first-hand accounts and personal experiences and details of how I did it, including the hurdles I encountered and how I overcame them. I wish to share those with you in the hopes that it makes your path toward entrepreneurship easier, and your successes greater, than mine.

This book is primarily focused on the post-pandemic Gen Z and Millennial business opportunities, most of which didn't even exist a generation ago. No one will forget the year 2020. The year that a pandemic shut down social, work, and public contact. There are two particular changes that have had a pronounced effect on business and finance, which this book will provide the guidance currently lacking in traditional business school texts. The first is the change from commuting to work to sheltering-in-place, with students and professionals on videoconferencing apps such as Zoom. Likely a lasting change, we can expect many office spaces will remain empty and many businesses will stick with the new work-from-home change. The second change is that the younger generation is the first to suffer a setback in terms of the standard of living compared to their parents. Not only do more than half of Americans have less than $1,000 in savings, but they eschew traditional corporate cubicles, preferring instead to juggle multiple and new 'hustles and side gigs.' This book is primarily focused on the post-pandemic Gen Z and Millennial business opportunities, most of which didn't even exist a generation ago.