Stuck Entrepreneurs

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

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Description
  7. Contents
  8. Prologue: Don’t Play Where You Don’t Belong
  9. Glossary of Terms
  10. The Stuck Entrepreneur’s School of Thinking
  11. What’s With This Quicksand Stuff?
  12. How Did You Even Wander Into the Quicksand?
  13. Hitting Closer to Home
  14. Dump That Nonperforming Albatross
  15. Does This Make Me Look Fat?
  16. Leaving Academia and Bumping Into the Real World
  17. Afraid of Success
  18. Using People and Being Used. It’s Not as Bad as It Sounds
  19. Be Selfish. Be Unapologetically Selfish
  20. Don’t Be a Sorrowful Entrepreneur
  21. Mama Told You That There Would Be Days Like These
  22. What If the Worst Happened? “So What” Planning
  23. Maybe You Just Went Into the Wrong Business?
  24. Don’t Be So Sensitive. Tough It Out, Snowflake!
  25. The Happiness Factor
  26. What to Do When Nobody Loves You
  27. What You Are Doing Today You May Not Be Doing Tomorrow
  28. Fear of Networking
  29. Guanxi—The Chinese Godfather of Swapping Favors (and Lies)
  30. Boot These Words and Phrases From Your Business-Speak
  31. Old Habits Unfortunately Die Hard
  32. Learn From My Mistakes
  33. Get Rid of the Guru, Keep the Mentor
  34. Bring Your Personality to the Table
  35. Don’t Be a Sheep
  36. Selective Empathy, Deliberate Deflection, and Elastic Imperatives
  37. Embellish Freely But Don’t Believe Your Own PR
  38. Pretending—The “Jekyll and Hyde” Syndrome
  39. Become the “Go To” and Milk It
  40. Useful (and Useless) Business Plans
  41. Do Your Homework. Then Do It Again
  42. You Always Need Money
  43. An NDA Is Not Your Savior. There’s Much Better Protection
  44. Go Extrovert Yourself
  45. Business Is Kind of Like Theatre But With Bigger Props
  46. Social Moodia Versus Social Media
  47. Befriend the Resolute Gatekeeper
  48. Is Your Integrity for Rent? Maybe No. Maybe Yes
  49. Marketing Ethics Are Also Elastic
  50. Brands Flourish, Commodities Flounder
  51. Solve Customers’ Problems, Not Yours
  52. Don’t Be Afraid to Ask
  53. Getting Out of a Malignant Partnership
  54. The Joy of Reframing
  55. A Quicksand Avoidance Technique
  56. More Personal Quicksand (Mis)Adventures
  57. About the Author
  58. Index
  59. Backcover

Product information

  • Title: Stuck Entrepreneurs
  • Author(s): Jay J. Silverberg
  • Release date: February 2023
  • Publisher(s): Business Expert Press
  • ISBN: 9781637424339