Book description
Learn to Escape, Avoid or Sidestep Your Descent into the Quicksand
Stuck Entrepreneurs provides inventive strategies for the quicksand-mired businessperson who asks, what am I doing wrong? or how can I break this inertia and move my business forward?
The author delivers advice that is steeped in real-world experience gleaned from his own variety of business ventures and consulting practice, and packed with his entertaining business stories. Some are happy, others are, well, disturbing.
This book casts a wide target readership net; from wanna-be and early-stage entrepreneurs seeking a foothold for their ventures, to established businesses floundering in the paralysis of quicksand.
Further, in this post-pandemic economic environment, many entrepreneurs, managers and professionals are laboring to re-birth their businesses. This book will provide the counsel and energy to strategize that return journey.
Stuck Entrepreneurs is a combination business manual and a workbook. Each chapter includes a challenging, self-directed workbook that encourages the reader to learn through the author’s own ‘how to’ or ‘how not to’ shared experiences.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Description
- Contents
- Prologue: Don’t Play Where You Don’t Belong
- Glossary of Terms
- The Stuck Entrepreneur’s School of Thinking
- What’s With This Quicksand Stuff?
- How Did You Even Wander Into the Quicksand?
- Hitting Closer to Home
- Dump That Nonperforming Albatross
- Does This Make Me Look Fat?
- Leaving Academia and Bumping Into the Real World
- Afraid of Success
- Using People and Being Used. It’s Not as Bad as It Sounds
- Be Selfish. Be Unapologetically Selfish
- Don’t Be a Sorrowful Entrepreneur
- Mama Told You That There Would Be Days Like These
- What If the Worst Happened? “So What” Planning
- Maybe You Just Went Into the Wrong Business?
- Don’t Be So Sensitive. Tough It Out, Snowflake!
- The Happiness Factor
- What to Do When Nobody Loves You
- What You Are Doing Today You May Not Be Doing Tomorrow
- Fear of Networking
- Guanxi—The Chinese Godfather of Swapping Favors (and Lies)
- Boot These Words and Phrases From Your Business-Speak
- Old Habits Unfortunately Die Hard
- Learn From My Mistakes
- Get Rid of the Guru, Keep the Mentor
- Bring Your Personality to the Table
- Don’t Be a Sheep
- Selective Empathy, Deliberate Deflection, and Elastic Imperatives
- Embellish Freely But Don’t Believe Your Own PR
- Pretending—The “Jekyll and Hyde” Syndrome
- Become the “Go To” and Milk It
- Useful (and Useless) Business Plans
- Do Your Homework. Then Do It Again
- You Always Need Money
- An NDA Is Not Your Savior. There’s Much Better Protection
- Go Extrovert Yourself
- Business Is Kind of Like Theatre But With Bigger Props
- Social Moodia Versus Social Media
- Befriend the Resolute Gatekeeper
- Is Your Integrity for Rent? Maybe No. Maybe Yes
- Marketing Ethics Are Also Elastic
- Brands Flourish, Commodities Flounder
- Solve Customers’ Problems, Not Yours
- Don’t Be Afraid to Ask
- Getting Out of a Malignant Partnership
- The Joy of Reframing
- A Quicksand Avoidance Technique
- More Personal Quicksand (Mis)Adventures
- About the Author
- Index
- Backcover
Product information
- Title: Stuck Entrepreneurs
- Author(s):
- Release date: February 2023
- Publisher(s): Business Expert Press
- ISBN: 9781637424339
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