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"Tales of Power meets the Peaceful Warrior... in Silicon Valley! It''s entertaining, humble, insightful and valuable - not just to entrepreneurs, but to anyone looking to manifest their dreams and make a difference in the world." -Foster Gamble, Creator and Host, Thrive: What on Earth Will It Take"You will come away with insight about yourself, guidance ... and knowledge that you may not be able to acquire anywhere else save the mountaintops of the Himalayas." -Bookreview.com Read Zen Entrepreneurship, the book that has inspired entrepreneurs and spiritual seekers worldwide! Based on a true story, this book is about succeeding in life while walking a spiritual path. Follow the travels of a young entrepreneur as he starts and grows a multi-million dollar business, only to discover that real success is tied to the hidden worlds and learn the secrets of being a Career Warrior. This book is not just for entrepreneurs, but for anyone who wants to find their work and place in life, who want to bring more integrity into their work and be more successful personally and financially. "Riz Virk brings the wisdom of ancient Eastern traditions into a purely Western setting. The result is an often hilarious but always insightful book that will change how you view career success and help you discover and walk your own unique path." -Marc Allen, author of Visionary Business, CEO and co-founder of New World Library Zen Entrepreneurship will teach you the 14 hidden keys for success, including:how to use your work for spiritual growthhow to achieve success using the Four Keys to Manifestationhow to discover and transcend your Energetic Pattern, rather than letting it run youhow to bring the magic and mystery of a treasure hunt into your career.how to find the 7 Clues that are pointing you to the person you were meant to be!How to utilize your dreams and synchronicity to serve as your guideHow to find and utilize Places of Power, and Times of Power to be more successfulHow to manifest appropriately to propel you to financial and business successHow to find and walk your own Warrior''s Path, the unique combination of lesson and contributions you are here for"Zen Entrepreneurship changed my life, it confirmed for me that ''clues'' exist in the world around us and are powerful. I shared this book with every one of my clients from that point forward. Powerful. A must read... it reinforces that there is a bigger guide within us if we choose to listen" -Lorin Beller, author of From Entrepreneur to Big Fish: 7 Principles of Wild Success

In this entrepreneurial age, it's very tempting to leave your job to start your own business. Before you do, learn all you can from the best. This book is just that. World renowned bestselling author and business consultant Brian Tracy tells you about one of today's most needed skill sets, entrepreneurship, covering these important topics:MYTHS of entrepreneurshipBEST business choice for youFINANCING the businessSHIFTING from employee mindset to entrepreneurial mindsetCREATING a realistic business planHIRING the best and managing for successFUELING your business growth with sales and marketingThis book is designed to help anyone who wants to start or grow a business. Let Brian Tracy teach you the science of entrepreneurship, tested and proven not just for years, but for millennia. If you simply study the ideas in this book, and apply them, you too, can become a successful entrepreneur.KIRKUS REVIEWA hard-line path to successful entrepreneurship for beginners...Aspiring entrepreneurs will benefit from Tracy's straightforward strategies.

The leading authority on network marketing shares everything you need to know to lead a successful direct sales team.Defcon 1 Direct Selling is the must-have playbook for anyone leading a direct sales team. It's Gage's follow up to the international bestseller, Direct Selling Success, and it's a handbook for leaders.DEFCON is the U.S. military acronym for "Defense Readiness Condition." DEFCON 1 is reserved only for imminent catastrophic events, like a nuclear war. Luckily, you don't have to fend off missile attacks in direct selling, but you will face some extremely difficult challenges and urgent crises leading your MLM team. No one knows how to lead teams better than author Randy Gage, a former high school dropout who rose to become a self-made multi-millionaire and inspire millions around the world. In this highly anticipated book, Randy teaches you how to hold your team together in the mostdifficult circumstances --the stuff no one likes to talk about, but that is vital for top-level leaders.It takes much more than a positive attitude and motivational words to be a successful field leader. True leadership requires you to deal with messy, complicated scenarios when there is not always a clear-cut solution. Many of these challenges are caused by factors completely out of your control--from economic, regulatory, and political setbacks, to having top leaders quit, to companies going out of business, and a host of other issues. It's at times like these, when it seems like your team is falling apart, that you must draw upon your resilience, persistence, and character to ride out the storm and lead your team through the chaos. This indispensable resource will enable you to:* Create a team culture of maximum readiness* Deal with toxic leaders and effectively handle conflict resolution* Use your leadership to make your team more powerful and build their self-esteem* Handle corporate incompetence, poor decisions, and PR crises* Know what to do when you or a team leader leave a companyMost leadership books will tell you, wrongly, that every situation has an ideal solution. Not this one. Defcon 1 Direct Selling: Manual for Field Leaders delivers the plain, unadulterated truth that everyone leading a direct sales team needs to know.

The must - read guidebook for entrepreneurs looking to get into accelerator programs and to build and scale their startups with speedAccelerator programs have become one of the most powerful and valuable resources for entrepreneurs seeking to learn rapidly, build powerful networks, raise capital, build their startups and do this at speed and scale. In recent years, the number of accelerator programs around the world has grown at an incredible rate, propelling startups such as AirBnB, Uber, DropBox, Reddit, and others -- many to billion-dollar valuations. The number of accelerators, the differences in accelerator program offerings and the unique benefits and costs of different accelerator locations makes choosing the right accelerator a challenge. Selecting the wrong accelerator, failing to be accepted in the right one, or not fully taking advantage of all the accelerator has to offer can be costly, sometimes fatal. With the stakes so high, entrepreneurs need to understand all their options, choose carefully and do the right things to maximize their chances of success.Startup Accelerators is the go to guide for any entrepreneur, providing a firsthand look into the acceptance criteria and inner workings of different accelerator programs. Written by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs, this indispensable resource explains what different accelerator programs offer, how to get accepted, what to do during the program, how to raise money during accelerators, what to do after the program ends, and much more. Packed with real-world case studies and advice from leading experts on startup accelerator programs, this one-stop resource provides step-by-step guidance on the entire accelerator process.* Reveals how accelerators help founders navigate different challenges in the startup journey* Describes the differences in the benefits and costs of different accelerator programs* Explains how to prepare accelerator applications* Discloses what actions to take during an accelerator to make the most of it* Depicts case studies of entrepreneurs' accelerator applications, experiences and outcomes across different accelerators* Features interviews with accelerator program managers, founders who went through accelerators, and investors in companies going through or having gone through accelerators* Includes insightful data and reflections from entrepreneurship education researchers and academicsStartup Accelerators: A Field Guide will prove to be invaluable for startup founders considering or going through accelerators, as well as aspiring entrepreneurs, educators, and other startup accelerator stakeholders.

Understanding Social Enterprise explores the growth of social enterprise and entrepreneurship, it's popularity, global impact, and sustainability. The 3rd edition includes new case studies and updates to literature, research, policy and legal references.

The Way Forward for Entrepreneurship Around the WorldWe are in the midst of a startup revolution. The growth and proliferation of innovation-driven startup activity is profound, unprecedented, and global in scope. Today, it is understood that communities of support and knowledge-sharing go along with other resources. The importance of collaboration and a long-term commitment has gained wider acceptance. These principles are adopted in many startup communities throughout the world.And yet, much more work is needed. Startup activity is highly concentrated in large cities. Governments and other actors such as large corporations and universities are not collaborating with each other nor with entrepreneurs as well as they could. Too often, these actors try to control activity or impose their view from the top-down, rather than supporting an environment that is led from the bottom-up. We continue to see a disconnect between an entrepreneurial mindset and that of many actors who wish to engage with and support entrepreneurship. There are structural reasons for this, but we can overcome many of these obstacles with appropriate focus and sustained practice.No one tells this story better than Brad Feld and Ian Hathaway. The Startup Community Way: Evolving an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem explores what makes startup communities thrive and how to improve collaboration in these rapidly evolving, complex environments.The Startup Community Way is an explanatory guide for startup communities. Rooted in the theory of complex systems, this book establishes the systemic properties of entrepreneurial ecosystems and explains why their complex nature leads people to make predictable mistakes. As complex systems, value creation occurs in startup communities primarily through the interaction of the "parts" - the people, organizations, resources, and conditions involved - not the parts themselves. This continual process of bottom-up interactions unfolds naturally, producing value in novel and unexpected ways. Through these complex, emergent processes, the whole becomes greater and substantially different than what the parts alone could produce.Because of this, participants must take a fundamentally different approach than is common in much of our civic and professional lives. Participants must take a whole-system view, rather than simply trying to optimize their individual part. They must prioritize experimentation and learning over planning and execution. Complex systems are uncertain and unpredictable. They cannot be controlled, only guided and influenced. Each startup community is unique. Replication is enticing but impossible. The race to become "The Next Silicon Valley" is futile - even Silicon Valley couldn't recreate itself.This book:* Offers practical advice for entrepreneurs, community builders, government officials, and other stakeholders who want to harness the power of entrepreneurship in their city* Describes the core components of startup communities and entrepreneurial ecosystems, as well as an explanation of the differences between these two related, but distinct concepts* Advances a new framework for effective startup community building based on the theory of complex systems and insights from systems thinking* Includes contributions from leading entrepreneurial voices* Is a must-have resource for entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, executives, business and community leaders, economic development authorities, policymakers, university officials, and anyone wishing to understand how startup communities work anywhere in the world

Learn from the BestGreat leaders of innovation know that creativity is not enough. They succeed not only on the basis of their ideas, but because they have the vision, reputation, and networks to win the backing needed to commercialize them. It turns out that this quality--called "e;innovation capital"e;--is measurably more important for innovation than just being creative.The authors have spent decades studying how people get great ideas (the subject of The Innovator's DNA) and how people test and develop those ideas (explored in The Innovator's Method).Now they share what they've learned from a multipronged research program designed to determine how people compete for, and obtain, resources to launch new ideas:How you can build a personal reputation for innovationWhat techniques you can use to amplify your innovation capitalHow you can garner attention for your ideas and projects and persuade audiences to support themWhat it means to provide visionary leadership and how you can achieve itFeaturing interviews with the superstars of innovation--individuals like Jeff Bezos (Amazon), Elon Musk (Tesla), Marc Benioff (Salesforce), Indra Nooyi (PepsiCo), and Shantanu Narayen (Adobe)--this book will help you position yourself and your ideas to compete for attention and resources so that you can launch innovations with impact.

By most people's standards I would say I've had a pretty good career. Now I want to share what I've learned through my own experiences, and am still learning, to change the way you work so that female energy and power will be seen as the most valuable currency in today's new world of work.

Successful startups are rare. More than 80 percent of all early stage startups fail. Most startups can build a product but, sadly, the vast majority stumble when it comes time to take those products to market. Traversing the Traction Gap exposes the reasons behind that scary failure rate and provides a prescriptive how to guide for startups to succeed.

Glenn Armstrong is known as 'The Millionaire Maker' - not just making millions for himself, but guiding others to follow their dreams and to make millions for themselves too. He made his first million at 29.

Ben Horowitz, a leading venture capitalist, modern management expert, and New York Times bestselling author combines lessons both from history and modern organisational practice with practical and often surprising advice to help us build cultures that can weather both good and bad times.The times and circumstances in which people were raised often shape them - yet a few leaders have managed to shape their times. In this follow-up to the bestselling business classic The Hard Thing About Hard Things, Ben Horowitz turns his attention to a question crucial to every organisation: How do you create and sustain the culture you want? This book is a journey through cultures ancient to modern, spotlighting models of leadership and culture-building from the samurai to prison gangs. Along the way, it answers fundamental questions: Who are we? How do people talk about us when we're not around? How do we treat our customers? Can we be trusted? Because who you are is not the values you list on the wall. It's not what you say in a company-wide meeting. It's not your marketing campaign. It's not even what you believe. Who you are is what you do. This book will help you do the things needed to become the kind of leader you want to be - and others want to follow.

One of the start-up world’s most in-demand executive coaches—hailed as the “CEO Whisperer” (Gimlet Media)—reveals why radical self-inquiry is critical to professional success and healthy relationships in all realms of life.Jerry Colonna helps start-up CEOs make peace with their demons, the psychological habits and behavioral patterns that have helped them to succeed—molding them into highly accomplished individuals—yet have been detrimental to their relationships and ultimate well-being. Now, this venture capitalist turned executive coach shares his unusual yet highly effective blend of Buddhism, Jungian therapy, and entrepreneurial straight talk to help leaders overcome their own psychological traumas. Reboot is a journey of radical self-inquiry, helping you to reset your life by sorting through the emotional baggage that is holding you back professionally, and even more important, in your relationships.Jerry has taught CEOs and their top teams to realize their potential by using the raw material of their lives to find meaning, to build healthy interpersonal bonds, and to become more compassionate and bold leaders. In Reboot, he inspires everyone to hold themselves responsible for their choices and for the possibility of truly achieving their dreams.Work does not have to destroy us. Work can be the way in which we achieve our fullest self, Jerry firmly believes. What we need, sometimes, is a chance to reset our goals and to reconnect with our deepest selves and with each other. Reboot moves and empowers us to begin this journey.

Kollaborativ problemløsning og evnen til at skabe og indgå i kollaborative læreprocesser er en afgørende forudsætning for at skabe dynamiske forsknings- og innovationsmiljøer. Med kollaboration menes videnssamarbejde med det formål at udvikle nye fælles løsninger. Fra arbejdet med FNs bæredygtighedsmål til teamledelse i virksomheder og på universiteter er kollaborativ problemløsning en afgørende drivkraft i udviklingen af viden og innovation. Kollaboration – vejen til åben forskning og åben innovation giver for første gang en samlet fremstilling over redskaber, praksisser og eksempler på kollaborativ problemløsning, ideudvikling og læring. Bogen kommer rundt om flere af de vigtigste aspekter af kollaboration. Fra de kognitive, psykologiske og økonomiske aspekter til de juridiske og historiske rammer.Bogen tilbyder således et dybdegående indblik i fordele, udfordringer og rammer i arbejdet med kollaboration. Den er henvendt til nutidens og fremtidens kollaborative studerende, forskere og ledere, der ønsker et forskningsbaseret, kritisk og engagereret indblik i åbne forsknings- og innovationsprocesser.

In Social Media Made Me Rich, learn the specific strategies that the world's highest-paid Internet entrepreneurs are using to multiply their impact and get rich.

From the millionaire entrepreneur and New York Times bestselling author of The 10X Rule comes a bold and contrarian wake-up call for anyone truly ready for success. One of the 7 best motivational books of 2016, according to Inc. Magazine. Before Grant Cardone built five successful companies (and counting), became a multimillionaire, and wrote bestselling books... he was broke, jobless, and drug-addicted. Grant had grown up with big dreams, but friends and family told him to be more reasonable and less demanding. If he played by the  rules, they said, he could enjoy everyone else’s version of middle class success. But when he tried it their way, he hit rock bottom. Then he tried the opposite approach. He said NO to the haters and naysayers and said YES to his burning, outrageous, animal obsession. He reclaimed his obsession with wanting to be a business rock star, a super salesman, a huge philanthropist. He wanted to live in a mansion and even own an airplane.  Obsession made all of his wildest dreams come true. And it can help you achieve massive success too. As Grant says, we''re in the middle of an epidemic of average. The conventional wisdom is to seek balance and take it easy. But that has really just given us an excuse to be unexceptional. If you want real success, you have to know how to harness your obsession to rocket to the top. This book will give you the inspiration and tools to break out of your cocoon of mediocrity and achieve your craziest dreams. Grant will teach you how to: · Set crazy goals—and reach them, every single day. · Feed the beast: when you value money and spend it on the right things, you get more of it. · Shut down the doubters—and use your haters as fuel.Whether you''re a sales person, small business owner, or 9-to-5 working stiff, your path to happiness runs though your obsessions. It''s a simple choice: be obsessed or be average.

Helle Aarøe Nissen udfolder begrebet innovation. Hun introducerer til innovationsprocessens elementer og den komplekse vej til markedet. Med udgangspunkt i en holistisk tilgang til innovationsprocessen integreres et markedsperspektiv med udviklingen af innovationer. Bogen har fokus på innovationsledelse, samarbejde i innovationsteams, identificering af kundegrupper, positionering af innovationer og udfoldelse af, hvad kommercialisering indeholder.Bogen henvender sig både til studerende i innovation og markedsudvikling på videregående uddannelser og til praktikere, som arbejder med innovation i virksomheder og andre organisationer.Helle Aarøe Nissen er ph.d. i Erhvervsøkonomi fra Syddansk Universitet. Hun forsker i virksomheders udvikling og kommercialisering af innovationer.

One of the Best Documented Entrepreneurial Case StudiesHow do you build and manage a channel of more than 2,000 resellers serving over 100,000 customers across 30 countries?From a small corner of the world where English isn’t the main language.Navision did just that!When Microsoft took over in 2002, the total turnover of and around Navision’s products was in the order of DKK 17 billion (USD 3.4B) and the entire ecosystem employed over 20,000 people.5,460 Miles from Silicon Valley reveals the full story of two of Denmark’s undisputed business successes – from cradle to adolescence.It reveals an industry that is completely unpredictable, where strategies do not necessarily lead to success.But it’s also a tale of people, ambitions, and resourcefulness. How to pursue your dreams and build a successful business up from scratch – in one of the smallest markets in the world.

Every industry revolves around Key People of Influence. People think it takes decades of hard work, academic qualifications and good luck to become a Key Person of Influence. This book shows that there is a strategy for fast-tracking your way to the inner circle of the industry you love. Your ability to succeed depends on your ability to influence.

Designing for the Circular Economy highlights and explores 'state of the art' research and industrial practice, highlighting CE as a source of: new business opportunities; radical business change; disruptive innovation; social change; and new consumer attitudes.

The one book every entrepreneur needs to launch and grow a business.

Raised in the grim, urban decay of Thatcher's Britain, Sheffield-born Magnus Walker left school with just two O levels and drifted for several years before buying a one-way ticket to America. This is the story of succeeding through pure instinct and determination by a man who was brave enough to follow his own path.

Hvordan sætter MobilePay, Airbnb, Amazon, Google og GoMore dagsordenen i den digitale økonomi?Hvorfor kan det forandre hele samfundet, at biler bliver selvkørende? Hvordan kan det lade sig gøre at sidde foran sin computer og grave digital valuta som bitcoins frem, og hvordan kan teknologien bag bitcoins sikre vores data langt bedre end hidtil? Hvordan vil det ændre vores hverdag, at vi får digitale tjenere som Amazon Echo og Google Home?Denne bog giver på en spændende og underholdende måde et indblik i digitaliseringen og dens gennemgribende betydning for vores liv. Denne opdaterede udgave opsummerer blandt andet de hovedtendenser i samfundsudviklingen, som digitaliseringen er afgørende for, lige som bogen med konkrete eksempler giver indblik i blandt andet cirkulær økonomi, Big Data, crowdsourcing, Internet of Things og blockchain-teknologien. Den digitale revolution er mindst lige så gennemgribende som den industrielle, og forandringerne viser sig med stigende synlighed. Traditionelle stensikre forretninger som banker og forsikringsselskaber er truede, og smartphonen har opslugt stribevis af lukrative brancher, gennemtygget dem og spyttet dem ud igen som gratis apps. Bogen forklarer på en let og forståelig måde teorierne og forskningen bag den digitale økonomi, og hvad den rummer af muligheder og udfordringer for erhvervslivet – og hvorfor det er på høje tid at tage begge dele alvorligt. Den digitale omstilling er udvalgt som en af de 10 bøger om innovation, forretningsudvikling eller ledelse i en moderne organisation, som du bør læse i 2018. Klummen er udgivet på Computerworld Online d. 24. januar 2018, og bøgerne er udvalgt af Jonathan Løw.9 konkrete udfordringer for erhvervslivet, som bogen giver svar på:• Hvordan undgår virksomheden at dø i digitaliseringen?• Hvordan vælger virksomheden den rigtige digitale løsning?• Hvordan kan virksomheden tjene penge, når digitale produkter er gratis?• Hvordan tiltrækker virksomheden brugere til sin platform og sørger for, at de bliver hængende?• Hvordan ændrer virksomheden sin kommunikation, så den passer til sociale medier?• Hvordan kan virksomheden udnytte deleøkonomien, blandt andet crowdfunding og crowdsourcing?• Hvordan ændrer virksomheden ledelseskultur, så den baserer sig på Big Data?• Hvordan kan virksomheden bruge Internet of Things (IoT) til at skabe værdi for kunderne?• Hvordan gør virksomheden sig klar til cloud computing?IndholdForord til 2. udgaveIntroduktion: Maskinerne kommerDigitaliseringens naturloveEn æra af kreativ destruktionDigitale forretningsmodellerDet digitale ægteskabNetværksøkonomi og principper for valg af digitale tjenesterEn, to – mangeDesign af profitable digitale platformeKampen om brugerneStrategier for digitale platformes udviklingKampen om sandhedenSociale medier i et erhvervsperspektivHvorfor eje, når man kan dele?Cirkulær økonomi og crowdsourcing200 mia. maskiner kan ikke tage fejlVærdiskabelse via Internet of ThingsMavefornemmelsen bliver udkonkurreretBig Data og fakta-baseret ledelseFarvel til it-afdelingenCloudcomputing som afsæt for digitaliseringEfterskrift: Høst fordelene, og tag højde for ulemperneAnonyme adfærdsprofiler sikrer privatlivets fredStikord

Susan-Urquhart Brown never expected to end up as an entrepreneur. In The Accidental Entrepreneur, she takes all the mystery out of going solo. For those who are just beginning to consider starting a venture as well as those who want to take their organization to the next level, she offers advice on what works and what doesn't.