Conversations with Social Innovators on the Power of Communities Everywh
Featuring social innovators with decades of experience working with their communities across America, America's Path Forward looks at twenty-two deep, idea-packed conversations. These narratives share analysis, practical insights, and policy recommendations-on how to gain common ground, get the country unstuck, and increase wellbeing for all.
Conversations with Social Innovators on the Power of Communities Everywh
Featuring social innovators with decades of experience working with their communities across America, America's Path Forward looks at twenty-two deep, idea-packed conversations. These narratives share analysis, practical insights, and policy recommendations-on how to gain common ground, get the country unstuck, and increase wellbeing for all.
In this book, Brian Baugus examines home schooling as an education enterprise, arguing that successful home school families have the same characteristics and motivations as entrepreneurs. Baugus examines the history and economic theories behind home schooling to explain the rational decision-making that motivates home schooling endeavors, ......
In this book, Brian Baugus examines home schooling as an education enterprise, arguing that successful home school families have the same characteristics and motivations as entrepreneurs.
This economic biography examines the rise of Andrew Carnegie from a poverty-stricken childhood to a position of international leadership, philanthropy, and peace advocacy. It presents a dynamic and entrepreneurial economic actor who built an industrial empire by shrewd calculation and innovations in products, technology, and industrial ......
A radical new perspective on innovation to help aspiring entrepreneurs avoid common pitfalls One of the biggest problems faced by entrepreneurs and corporate executives alike is the conflation of entrepreneurship with innovation. The quest for innovation is often misguided by a variety of mantras, cliches and proclamations, often infused with ......
The microenterprise strategy -helping people start small businesses -has generated attention among policymakers and the media as a way to create jobs and help lift people out of poverty.
From 90-minute IPAs to grapefruit sculpins, craft beer and local brewers are making a big splash in the beer scene. No longer must brewers sip their beer in cold garages, sharing among neighbors and family members. With this book, serious craft brewers learn how to take their best brews to market and newbies learn the art of craft brewing.
Your guide to succession planning, exit strategies, and preparing for the big handoff
Wayne Vanwyck is an entrepreneur, trainer, business coach, speaker and writer.
In 1984 Wayne founded The Achievement Centre, a firm dedicated to sales and leadership development. In 1996 he started Callright Marketing Services, an inbound and outbound call centre, and in 2009, The Achievement Centre Franchise Inc., a company that helps ......
The business owner's guide to selling to private equity
Launching and growing a business can be unpredictable - so a clear vision and a strategy for exit is essential to navigate these choppy waters. If you're not sure where you're going and how to get there, feel weighed down by responsibility and tough decision-making, and struggle to balance work and personal life, Cashing Out is your ......
Building Your Small Business While Managing Persistent Pain
Chronic Profit: Building Your Small Business While Managing Persistent Pain shares the story of how one entrepreneur sought freedom from cubicle life along with the flexibility to be a parent and a business owner, and learned to extend herself enough grace and compassion to excel in business while still taking care of herself.
How an American Came to Own a Legendary Vineyard in France
This is a unique tale about the first non-Frenchman to ever own one of the Montrachet Grand Cru vineyards in Burgundy, France. Weaved throughout entertaining stories that celebrate the history of this world renowned region, is the chronicle of an American breaking through cultural barriers to find adventure and success.
How an American Came to Own a Legendary Vineyard in France
Named one of the New York Times Best Wine Books of 2023 Named one of the Washington Post's Best Wine Books of 2023 This is a unique tale about the first non-Frenchman to ever own one of the Montrachet Grand Cru vineyards in Burgundy, France. Weaved throughout entertaining stories that celebrate the history of this world renowned region, is the ......
American Jewish Entrepreneurship in the Reconstruction Era
Honorable Mention, 2019 Saul Viener Book Prize, given by the American Jewish Historical Society A vivid history of the American Jewish merchants who concentrated in the nation's most important economic sector In the nineteenth century, Jewish merchants created a thriving niche economy in the United States' most important ......
For millions, a major component of the American dream is to start one's own company and, ultimately, to become one's own boss. The question is--just how exactly does one do that? Every successful entrepreneur has their own story to tell. But the story in Dare to Become is especially intriguing and uplifting because Julie Gareleck didn't have ......
Profiting from the successes and failures of others is the best way to avoid pitfalls as you build your own lucrative enterprise. Bill Matthews' Don't Step in the Entremanure: Tiptoe Your Way to Entrepreneurial Success distills time-tested wisdom that will help you guide your business toward enduring prosperity. Matthews poses thirty-two questions ......
Repeating Success Through People, Products, and Profits
As difficult as it is to have your first big success, most people find it exponentially harder to repeat success. So many of us, after "bringing the crowd to its feet," worry that we're going to get booed off the stage with our next venture. Is there a way to avoid this, to have multiple hits and "endless encores?" Technology executive and ......
