Ballooning, Birdmen & Blasting Into Space An exhilarating and highly personal story of flight by the world-famous adventurer and businessman. As far back as stories go, pioneers have reached for the skies. In the last two hundred years, they have mastered the air and made the modern world possible. Today they are bringing outer space within our reach. They're inventors and toymakers, amateurs and adventurers, visionaries, dreamers and, yes, crackpots. Some have called them irresponsible, even dangerous.
To take a road trip to Success, we will need a destination as well as a GPS. Success is described here as the achievement of a goal. The goals we adopt may be the result of experience, vision or desire. They crystallize our desire to get to a better place. Having picked a goal for success, how do you get there? What drives you on? Some more popular goals include amassing wealth, gaining recognition and a desire to improve the lifestyle of others. It is also interesting to note that both philosophers as well as successful travellers on this road to success tell us that the journey is the real prize, not merely arriving at the destination. So what route does your roadmap follow? Whatever route you choose, the CelebrityExperts(R) in this book can mentor your trip. They have completed this trip before, and they know where the potholes and the dead-ends are. These successful people have trait
Udgivelsesår: -1 ·Pay brand-new employees $2,000 to quit ·Make customer service the responsibility of the entire company-not just a department ·Focus on company culture as the no.1 priority ·Apply research from the science of happiness to running a business ·Help employees grow-both personally and professionally ·Seek to change the world ·Oh, and make money too . . . Sound crazy? It's all standard operating procedure at Zappos, the online retailer that's doing over $1 billion in gross merchandise sales annually. After debuting as the highest-ranking newcomer in Fortune magazine's annual "Best Companies to Work For" list in 2009, Zappos was acquired by Amazon in a deal valued at over $1.2 billion on the day of closing. In DELIVERING HAPPINESS, Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh shares the different lessons he has learned in business and life, from starting a worm farm to running a pizza business, thro
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"Most startups are built to fail. But those failures, according to entrepreneur Eric Ries, are preventable. Startups don't fail because of bad execution, or missed deadlines, or blown budgets. They fail because they are building something nobody wants. Whether they arise from someone's garage or are created within a mature Fortune 500 organization, new ventures, by definition, are designed to create new products or services under conditions of extreme uncertainly. Their primary mission is to find out what customers ultimately will buy. One of the central premises of The Lean Startup movement is what Ries calls "validated learning" about the customer. It is a way of getting continuous feedback from customers so that the company can shift directions or alter its plans inch by inch, minute by minute. Rather than creating an elaborate business plan and a product-centric approach, Lean Startu
Guide i iværksætteri, der bygger på de to forfatteres mangeårige erfaringer som iværksættere Titel: Iværksætter : hvad vi lærte af at starte 30 virksomheder Forfattere: Mads Faurholt,Lars Tvede Udgave: 1. udgave Genre: erhverv_oekonomi_ledelse Sammendrag: Bogen er en praktisk iværksætterguide baseret på Mads Faurholt og Lars Tvedes erfaringer med at starte ca. 30 virksomheder. Forfatterne beskriver hele rejsen fra idéfase til etableret virksomhed og profit. De gennemgår, hvordan man håndterer presset i en startup, prioriterer tid og ressourcer, laver effektiv markedsføring med begrænset budget, vinder afgørende kundeordrer og opbygger et stærkt founding team og medarbejderstab. Derudover forklarer de, hvordan man rejser kapital fra investorer, udvikler og tester nye produkter, skalerer salget og håndterer vækst. Bogen kombinerer konkrete eksempler, værktøjer og tjeklister med refleksione
Forfattere: Robert T. Kiyosaki, Sharon L. Lechter Sprog: Engelsk Antal sider: 383 Forlag: Time Warner Books UK Udgivelsesår: 2003 Make the American Dream a reality with help from the bestselling authors of "Rich Dad Poor Dad." In this fifth book in the Rich Dad series, financial guru Kiyosaki provides practical insight on how to put together a financial plan and achieve the retirement goals of a lifetime. Titel: Rich Dad's Retire Young, Retire Rich Genre: Faglitteratur Sammendrag: It is everyone's dream to be able to make so much money at an early age that you could decide when to retire, knowing full well that you have enough money stashed away to ensure a life free of financial restraints. In Retire Young, Retire Rich, financial guru Robert Kiyosaki provides practical insight on how to put together a financial plan which will not only make you prosperous but will also allow you to map
Syv trin om motivation, research, produktudvikling, networking, markedsføring og salg for at komme igang som iværksætter eller for at professionalisere din virksomhed virkelighed Titel: Tænk stort og slip din indre iværksætter løs Udgave: 1. udgave Genre: erhverv_oekonomi_ledelse Sammendrag: Bogen henvender sig til læsere, der ønsker at leve af deres idéer ved at opbygge egen virksomhed eller sidebusiness. I et letlæst og konkret sprog beskriver Maiken Ingvordsen, hvordan man gennem syv trin kan forvandle en god idé til en bæredygtig forretning. Læseren introduceres til emner som personlig motivation og mindset, grundig research af marked og målgrupper, udvikling og test af produkter eller ydelser, netværk og samarbejdspartnere, markedsføring på tværs af kanaler, prissætning og salg. Bogen fungerer som en praktisk GPS fra idé til forretning og kan bruges både af helt nye iværksættere og
