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Bestselling author and creativity expert Jeff Goins dismantles the myth that being creative is a hindrance to success by revealing how an artistic temperament is in fact a competitive advantage in the marketplace.

'Infuriating... Wilkin's main claim is that the super-rich have discovered 'secret' ways of both making and preserving their fortunes... like [Capital author Thomas] Piketty, Wilkin has a love-hate relationship with capitalism. He takes the view that most billionaires are rich because, one way or another, they have found ways to rig the market.' The TimesWhat does it take to make a fortune? Hard work? Great ideas? Intelligence? Business acumen? Or something else entirely? Spanning centuries and continents, from the Ancient World to the 21st century, Wealth Secrets of the 1% uncovers the economic principles that enable a fortunate few to get really rich. Witty, provocative and immaculately researched, it is essential and revelatory reading at a time when 1% of the world's population owns half of its wealth.'Clever [and] entertaining, with a distinctly satirical edge' Daily Mail'Illuminating [and] eye-opening... sure to make libertarian heads explode' Kirkus Reviews'What makes this book different is that Sam Wilkin is an inside man' Daily Telegraph'No one gets really rich reading how-to-get-rich handbooks...Wilkin offers up the real scoop in Wealth Secrets of the One Percent, a delicious - and insight-packed - send-up of the genre.' Toomuch.com

Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos are often grouped together as some of the greatest entrepreneurs of our time, but they also have something else in common they are all introverts. In The Introvert Entrepreneur professional coach Beth Buelow shows us how introverts can utilise their natural gifts (such as listening) and overcome their weaknesses (such as an aversion to networking) when it comes to starting a business, taking on the mistaken but prevailing assumption that entrepreneurial success belongs to the extroverts.What many people, including introverts themselves may not know, is that the strengths and traits of the typical introvert curiosity, desire for depth over breadth, comfort with going solo, thoroughness and thoughtfulness and love of research lend themselves well to entrepreneurship. This book shares the stories and lessons from introverts who have built successful businesses and created a way of life that honours their natural energy. Topics covered include fears, mind-set, failure and self-management, values, networking, marketing, sales, creating community, partnership and expansion. An introvert trying to be a fake extrovert is just that: a fake extrovert. The Introvert Entrepreneur takes a strengths-based approach to being a successful entrepreneur, while also helping you deal with the particular roadblocks you may encounter when building a business.

Leverage the framework of visionaries to innovate, disrupt, and ultimately succeed as an entrepreneur The Lean Entrepreneur, Second Edition banishes the "Myth of the Visionary" and shows you how you can implement proven, actionable techniques to create products and disrupt existing markets on your way to entrepreneurial success.

Poke the Box is Seth Godin's spirited call to action for anybody too afraid to try something new, now relaunched and repackagedIf you are happy being just a dreamer, perhaps you don't need this book.If you're enjoying the status quo, don't even consider reading this book.If you are content waiting for success to find you, please put this book down and go find something else to read.Why has Poke the Box become a cult classic?Because it's a book that dares readers to do something they're afraid of.It could be what you need, too.'Like the man who produced it, Poke the Box is inspired and inspiring' Daniel H. Pink'A one-two punch! Half kick in the ass, half cheerleading encouragement' Steven Pressfield, author of The War of Art

Start-Up is ideal for anyone looking to start a business - whether you are a student or a professional preparing to launch your own business or social enterprise.

The real story of what it takes to risk it all and go for broke. Conventional wisdom says most startups need to be in Silicon Valley, started by young engineers around a sexy new idea, and backed by VC funding. But as Mikkel Svane reveals in Startupland, the story of founding Zendesk was anything but conventional.

In Do Cool Sh*t, serial social entrepreneur, angel investor, and all-around cool sh*t-doer Miki Agrawal shows how to start a successful company-from brainstorming to raising money to getting press without any connections-all while having a meaningful life!

Thanks to the decreasing cost of prototyping, it's more feasible for professional makers and first-time entrepreneurs to launch a hardware startup. But exactly how do you go about it? This book provides the roadmap and best practices you need for turning a product idea into a full-fledged business.Written by three experts from the field, The Hardware Startup takes you from idea validation to launch, complete with practical strategies for funding, market research, branding, prototyping, manufacturing, and distribution. Two dozen case studies of real-world startups illustrate possible successes and failures at every stage of the process.Validate your idea by learning the needs of potential usersDevelop branding, marketing, and sales strategies early onForm relationships with the right investment partnersPrototype early and often to ensure you're on the right pathUnderstand processes and pitfalls of manufacturing at scaleJumpstart your business with the help of an acceleratorLearn strategies for pricing, marketing, and distributionBe aware of the legal issues your new company may face

Often downplayed in the excitement of starting up a new business venture is one of the most important decisions entrepreneurs will face: should they go it alone, or bring in cofounders, hires, and investors to help build the business? More than just financial rewards are at stake. Friendships and relationships can suffer. Bad decisions at the inception of a promising venture lay the foundations for its eventual ruin. The Founder's Dilemmas is the first book to examine the early decisions by entrepreneurs that can make or break a startup and its team. Drawing on a decade of research, Noam Wasserman reveals the common pitfalls founders face and how to avoid them. He looks at whether it is a good idea to cofound with friends or relatives, how and when to split the equity within the founding team, and how to recognize when a successful founder-CEO should exit or be fired. Wasserman explains how to anticipate, avoid, or recover from disastrous mistakes that can splinter a founding team, strip founders of control, and leave founders without a financial payoff for their hard work and innovative ideas. He highlights the need at each step to strike a careful balance between controlling the startup and attracting the best resources to grow it, and demonstrates why the easy short-term choice is often the most perilous in the long term. The Founder's Dilemmas draws on the inside stories of founders like Evan Williams of Twitter and Tim Westergren of Pandora, while mining quantitative data on almost ten thousand founders. People problems are the leading cause of failure in startups. This book offers solutions.

This is the book is for anyone who has ever dreamed of being a farmer. Practical and optimistic, You Can Farm gives prospective farmers a clear, step-by-step approach to turn their vision of a farm into a marketable reality. Illuminating both the pitfalls and the promise of farming, Salatin shows how you can make a living, and even a profit, by working the land. This readable guide is packed with advice that takes into account the whole farm, from getting along with neighbors to deep bedding livestock.

Start something new, develop your career and diversify your skills - without giving up your day jobYou want to launch a business, try something new and make yourself more employable, but you don't want to lose the security of your job. You no longer have to choose. Instead, become a 10% entrepreneur. In The 10% Entrepreneur, Patrick J. McGinnis shows you how to integrate entrepreneurship into your life by investing 10% of your time and, if possible, 10% of your capital into side projects. You will generate more income, discover new opportunities, sharpen your skills - and get the life you've always wanted.

Thomas Edison famously said that genius is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration. Every day new solutions, revolutionary cures, and artistic breakthroughs are conceived and squandered by smart people. Along with the gift of creativity come the obstacles to making ideas happen: lack of organisation, lack of accountability and a lack of community support.Scott Belsky has interviewsed hundreds of the most productive creative people and teams in the world, revealing one common trait: a carefully trained capacity for executing ideas. Implementing your ideas is a skill that can be taught, and Belshy distills the core principles in this book.While many of us obsess about discovering great new ideas, Belsky shows why it is better to develop the capacity to make ideas happen - using old-fashioned passion and perspiration. Making Ideas Happen reveals the practical yet counterintuitive techniques of 'serial creatives' - those few who make their visions a reality.

Young serial entrepreneur Scott Gerber is not the product of a wealthy family or storied entrepreneurial heritage. Nor is he the outcome of a traditional business school education or a corporate executive turned entrepreneur.

The amazing true story of how London became home to the Russian super-rich - told for the first time ever. A dazzling tale of incredible wealth, ferocious disputes, beautiful women, private jets, mega-yachts, the world's best footballers - and chauffeur-driven Range Rovers with tinted windows.A group of buccaneering Russian oligarchs made colossal fortunes after the collapse of communism - and many of them came to London to enjoy their new-found wealth. Londongrad tells for the first time the true story of their journeys from Moscow and St Petersburg to mansions in Mayfair, Knightsbridge and Surrey - and takes you into a shimmering world of audacious multi-billion pound deals, outrageous spending and rancorous feuds.But while London's flashiest restaurants echoed to Russian laughter and Bond Street shop-owners totted up their profits, darker events also played themselves out. The killing of ex-KGB man Alexander Litvinenko in London to the death - in a helicopter crash he all but predicted - of Stephen Curtis, the lawyer to many of Britain's richest Russians, chilled London's Russians and many of those who know them.This is the story of how Russia's wealth was harvested and brought to London - some of it spent by Roman Abramovich on his beloved Chelsea Football Club, some of it spent by Boris Berezovsky in his battles with Russia's all-powerful Vladimir Putin. Londongrad is a must-read for anyone interested in how vast wealth is created, the luxury it can buy, and the power and intrigue it produces.

Helping you get the financing you need, this book assists discover how to: tap personal sources of financing; approach customers and vendors for financing; hook up with commercial lenders; find angel investors; get an SBA loan; raise cash through private equity offerings; and, woo and win investment bankers and venture capitalists.

Bornstein's How to Change the World studies a remarkable group of individuals around the world-what he calls social entrepreneurs. These people are bringing innovative, and successful, grass-roots approaches to a wide variety of social and economic problems, from rural poverty in India to discrimination against gypsies in Central Europe.

Born of modest origins in Scotland in 1835, Andrew Carnegie is best known as the founder of Carnegie Steel. This is a biography of Andrew Carnegie who is one of the America's famous and successful businessmen and philanthropists.

Throughout my life I have achieved many remarkable things. In Screw It, Let's Do It, I will share with you my ideas and the secrets of my success, but not simply because I hope they'll help you achieve your individual goals. Today we are increasingly aware of the effects of our actions on the environment, and I strongly believe that we each have a responsibility, as individuals and organisations, to do no harm. I will draw on Gaia Capitalism to explain why we need to take stock of how we may be damaging the environment, and why it is up to big companies like Virgin to lead the way in a more holistic approach to business. In Screw It, Let's Do It I'll be looking forwards to the future. A lot has changed since I founded Virgin in 1968, and I'll explain how I intend to take my business and my ideas to the next level and the new and exciting areas - such as launching Virgin Fuels - into which Virgin is currently moving. But I have also brought together all the important lessons, good advice and inspirational adages that have helped me along the road to success. Ironically, I have never been one to do things by the book, but I have been inspired and influenced by many remarkable people. I hope that you too might find a little inspiration between these pages.

Hvad er en socialøkonomisk virksomhed? Hvad står der i loven? Hvorfor skal man blive registreret? Hvad gør man i andre lande? Alt det og meget mere kan du få svar på i denne håndbog, der bl.a. indeholder en kommenteret gennemgang af den nye lov om registrerede socialøkonomiske virksomheder, en række praktiske vejledninger, konkrete eksempler og overvejelser om de mange nye muligheder for socialøkonomiske virksomheder. Håndbogen henvender sig til personer, der påtænker at starte en socialøkonomisk virksomhed, til personer, der allerede er godt i gang, og til alle deres samarbejdspartnere – herunder de offentlige myndigheder. IndholdsoversigtKapitel 1. IndledningKapitel 2. Loven med kommentarerKapitel 3. OrganisationsformerKapitel 4. Hvad er socialøkonomisk virksomhed?Kapitel 5. BestyrelsesarbejdeKapitel 6. Kontrol og tilsynKapitel 7. Socialøkonomiske virksomheder og almene boligselskaberKapitel 8. FinansieringKapitel 9. Internationale erfaringerKapitel 10. BrugervejledningKapitel 11. Konkrete eksemplerKapitel 12. AfslutningForkortelseslisteStikordsregister

Forandring er et livsvilkår Virksomheder og deres medarbejdere mærker hver dag pulsen i verden megetdirekte og får derigennem selv en global puls. Forandring er et livsvilkår, som viikke kun skal leve med, men også profitere af. I Forandringens vaner præsentereset nyt tankesæt for lederskab i en tid, hvor hastigheden og intensiteten afforandringer fortsat øges. Det handler om at skabe stærke virksomheder, der er istand til kontinuerligt at udvikle sig og udfolde deres fulde potentiale, mens forandringerfinder sted. Det handler om forandring, der skaber resultater. Resultater,der holder og bærer virksomheder videre, hvad enten vi taler om forandring somundtagelse eller som tilstand. Tal til medarbejderens energi Vaner er handlinger, vi udfører automatisk uden bevidst planlægning. Stillet overfor vanerne har vi et valg. Vi kan gentage de gamle vaner og begå de sammefejl; eller vi kan tillære os nye bæredygtige vaner baseret på læring fra tidligereerfaringer. Forandringens vaner drejer sig om ledelse, der skaber fundamentet forat lære og udvikle, mens vi løser opgaverne. Det drejer sig om at lede det vigtigsteførst, og i dag er medarbejderen det vigtigste aktiv. Det stiller krav til lederen omat forstå og tale direkte til medarbejderens iboende energi: længslen efter detstørste potentiale.

Professionelle ildsjæle er en bog med interviews med succesfulde topledere, der har skabt store internationale virksomheder og tusinder af danske arbejdspladser, topledere indenfor kultur og sport samt magtfulde toppolitikere, der har opnået afgørende indflydelse i dansk politik. Lars Larsen, direktør for JYSK, Morten Olsen, fodboldlandsholdets træner, Thyra Frank, plejehjemsleder og politiker, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, generalsekretær for NATO, Asger Aamund, iværksætter og stifter af Bavarian og Neurosearch, og flere andre fremtrædende personligheder fortæller, hvad der har skabt dem som ildsjæle - og hvordan de kan blive ved med at brænde for "sagen". Ildsjæle er en nøgle til professionel succes og til fortsat velfærd i Danmark. Bogen fortæller på grundlag af anerkendt viden inden for udviklingspsykologi, hvad der skaber ilden hos os mennesker, og bogen giver en guide og et redskab til at spotte ildsjæle.Ildsjæle har også et bud på, hvordan vi kan få flere ildsjæle - og hvordan vi hver især kan udvikle vores egen indre ildsjæl.