success in business

Details Amish business practices and explores why the Amish have a ninety-five percent chance of success in business, covering marketing, customer relationships, employees, and other topics.

There's a new breed of entrepreneur emerging in the business world. One who is interested in promoting their deepest personal and spiritual beliefs, as well as their products and services. They are the ones who launch a business that not only showcases their talents, but also benefits others. Laurie Beth Jones, the best-selling author of Jesus CEO, calls this new breed of leaders "Spiritreneurs", and has dedicated this book to keeping their dreams alive.The ultimate role model for the Spiritreneur is Jesus Christ, whose leadership style as told in the Bible, incorporated His talents, gifts, and His desire to do well by doing right. According to the author, you are a "Spiritreneur" when you are committed to establishing a business that is a true reflection of your spiritual and personal beliefs. In the coaching profession we call this `authenticity", that which is a true reflection of oneself. Using Christ as the focal point, we learn how to become real Spiritreneurs. What did He do that made Him the most successful entrepreneur and leader in the world? A few important facets of His life are covered int his book:He heeded the call to Spiritreneurship, During the early days He established His identity. He was a Visionary.

The glitter of success can turn to fool's gold, suggests O'Neil, president of the California School of Professional Psychology, in a workmanlike guide for executives who have sacrificed personal values in order to further their careers. This "paradox of success," often seen in workaholism, self-doubt or hubris, substance abuse and family problems, is manifest when the executive's suppressed psychological conflicts are sensed and transmitted throughout his or her organization. Becoming a "long distance winner" requires a commitment to a process of probing self-examination, which will lead to renewal. Having achieved renewal, the executive can sustain it only by continuing to practice self-observation to use time constructively, including through various types of retreats and other activities. In a final chapter O'Neil too scantily discusses the application of renewal principles to organizations themselves.

Discusses what is required to ensure that companies will be successful and prosper well into the future. Profiles 18 landmark companies such as Wal-Mart, Walt Disney, IBM, and Johnson & Johnson.

"For readers of Drive, Outliers, and Daring Greatly, a counterintuitive, paradigm-shifting new take on what makes people and companies succeed Most new products fail. So do most small businesses. And most of us, if we are honest, have experienced a major setback in our personal or professional lives. So what determines who will bounce back and follow up with a home run? If you want to succeed in business and in life, Megan McArdle argues in this hugely thought-provoking book, you have to learn how to harness the power of failure. McArdle has been one of our most popular business bloggers for more than a decade, covering the rise and fall of some the world's top companies and challenging us to think differently about how we live, learn, and work. Drawing on cutting-edge research in science, psychology, economics, and business, and taking insights from turnaround experts, emergency room doctors, venture capitalists, child psychologists, bankruptcy judges, and mountaineers, McArdle argues that America is unique in its willingness to let people and companies fail, but also in its determination to let them pick up after the fall. Failure is how people and businesses learn. So how do you reinvent yourself when you are down? Dynamic and punchy, McArdle teaches us how to recognize mistakes early to channel setbacks into future success. The Up Side of Down marks the emergence of an author with her thumb on the pulse whose book just might change the way you lead your life"--.

Argues that today's business world demands "win-win" relationships rather than the outdated "win-lose" framework and discusses companies that use this philosophy.