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Informationen zum Autor Jamie S. Walters is founder of Ivy Sea, Inc., a "small size, big impact" organizational consulting firm. The firm's award-winning public service website, Ivy Sea Online, (www.ivysea.com) has been recognized by Harvard Business School, About.com, Entrepreneur's Edge, The CEO Refresher, Edu-Leadership, and others as one of the best Internet sites for small-enterprise owners, entrepreneurs, and organizational leaders. Klappentext While most of the business world worships size and constant growth! Big Vision! Small Business celebrates the art-and power-of small. Based on interviews with more than seventy small-business owners and on her own experiences as a successful small-business entrepreneur! Jamie Walters shows how a business can stay small and remain vital! healthy! and rewarding. If you long to run a successful! socially conscious enterprise as one element of a fulfilling personal life! Big Vision! Small Business shows you how. Covering growth options and small-enterprise advantages! inspired visioning! communication! and right-relationship! mindset issues and expectation management! and wisdom and mastery practices! Big Vision! Small Business is a must-read for every entrepreneur and futurist. Zusammenfassung While most of the business world worships size and constant growth! Big Vision! Small Business celebrates the art—and power—of small. Based on interviews with more than seventy small-business owners and on her own experiences as a successful small-business entrepreneur! Jamie Walters shows how a business can stay small and remain vital! healthy! and rewarding. If you long to run a successful! socially conscious enterprise as one element of a fulfilling personal life! Big Vision! Small Business shows you how. Covering growth options and small-enterprise advantages! inspired visioning! communication! and right-relationship! mindset issues and expectation management! and wisdom and mastery practices! Big Vision! Small Business is a must-read for every entrepreneur and futurist. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface: The Great Power of Small Enterprise Acknowledgments SECTION ONE: Key No. 1: There’s More Than One Way to Define Growth Chapter 1: Finding Quality in the Land of Quantity Chapter 2: Appreciating the Power of Small Enterprise Chapter 3: Which is Better, Big or Small? Chapter 4: Moving from Quantitative Growth to Qualitative Evolution Chapter 5: Profiles in Growth SECTION TWO: Key No. 2: To Live Large, You Have to Vision Big Chapter 6: Vision in the Smallest Enterprises Chapter 7: Twelve Priorities of Big-Vision Small Businesses Chapter 8: The Guiding Vision Chapter 9: Vision Profile: The Cat Doctor Chapter 10: To Plan or Not to Plan Chapter 11: Approaches to Visioning and Planning SECTION THREE: Key No. 3: Right Relationship Is a Big-Vision Craft Chapter 12: Right Relationship as a Pathway for Qualitative Growth Chapter 13: Golden Rules for Right Relationships Chapter 14: Creating Right Relationships with Employees Chapter 15: Maintaining Right Relationships with Employees Chapter 16: Creating Right Relationships with Customers Chapter 17: Maintaining Right Relationships with Customers SECTION FOUR: Key No. 4: To Live from the Source, Replenish the Well Chapter 18: Wisdom and Mastery in Business Chapter 19: Money and Risk Chapter 20: Competition Chapter 21: Success and Failure Chapter 22: Time and Balance Chapter 23: Wisdom and Mastery Practices Parting Thoughts Notes Bibliography and Reading Guide Index About the Author...
