Small Business Survival [electronic resource].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Duncan, Kevin.

Series:

Teach Yourself Business Skills

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (220 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Hodder Education, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This complete Business Survival Kit will help you re-position your business in tricky times and re-fuel for growth!

Contents:

Cover; Book title; Contents; Meet the author; Introduction; Only got a minute?; Only got five minutes?; The CHEW system: what is it?; Phase I: Confront; 1 So your business is under pressure. What now?; What to do when things go wrong; You cannot be prescriptive about survival or growth; Time for tough love and some tough thinking; Some nasty questions; Some so what? questions; Can't get no satisfaction; Ten things to remember; 2 Are you disciplined enough to survive?; New company: same as the old company?; Ripping up the straitjackets you built yourself; Turning native

Growing panes: a new look through the business windowEfficiency is a sophisticated form of laziness; Are you suffering from attitude sickness?; Ten things to remember; 3 Thinking is free; Thinking is free, so do it more often; Try this. It might just work; Why the next big thing might be small; A strategy is when you have decided what to do; KISS: Keep It Simple and Sensible; KITSCH: Keep It Terribly Simple and Cool Headed; Didn't work? Try again; Ten things to remember; Phase II: Hone; Foo fighting; Why evolutive thinking?; 4 Thinking stage 1: What are the facts?; Rivers and dams

Send it down to the boys in forensic or go completely ballistic?Common sense analysis; Always admit if something was a fluke; Remind me, what was the original idea?; Ten things to remember; 5 Thinking stage 2: What's your own opinion?; The doctor who died of ill health; Heed your own counsel; The pragmatist who was sceptical about the cynic; Death to compromise; Ten things to remember; 6 Thinking stage 3: What can you learn from the experience of others?; The survey explained; The six questions answered; Whole survey diagnosis; Ten things to remember; Phase III: Evolve

7 Set up your business tripwires and grenadesHow to trip yourself up on purpose; Write it down and it gets done; Idea tripwires; Personal planning tripwires; Business planning tripwires; Dropping grenades in fishponds; Idea grenades; Personal grenades; Business grenades; Don't replace the original, replace the spare; Multitasking versus Rapid Sequential Tasking; Put the effort in only where it gets you somewhere; Ten things to remember; 8 Write your own Lifesmile Statement; What am I like?; Decide your own style; So what do I really want?; I pledge...; My Lifesmile Statement; Try being angular

A board meeting with yourselfNailing a jelly to the wall; Ten things to remember; Phase IV: What next?; 9 Don't confuse movement with progress; Action not activity; Outcome not output; Spotting obfuscation; Business does not mean being busy; There's a tidal wave coming. Here's a paper cup; Everything busier than everything else; Ten things to remember; 10 Corporations don't have memories; History does not repeat itself; Corporations: just clusters of individuals; Your relationships aren't; Overcoming corporate amnesia; Overcoming corporate apathy; Overcoming corporate aggression

Ten things to remember

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-282-95750-3

9786612957505

1-4441-2505-2

OCLC:

701311103