Book description
While most of the business world worships size and constant growth, Big Vision, Small Business celebrates the art—and power—of small. Based on interviews with more than seventy small-business owners and on her own experiences as a successful small-business entrepreneur, Jamie Walters shows how a business can stay small and remain vital, healthy, and rewarding.
If you long to run a successful, socially conscious enterprise as one element of a fulfilling personal life, Big Vision, Small Business shows you how. Covering growth options and small-enterprise advantages, inspired visioning, communication, and right-relationship, mindset issues and expectation management, and wisdom and mastery practices, Big Vision, Small Business is a must-read for every entrepreneur and futurist. Walters defines for keys essential to creating a small business with a big vision:
• Creating alternatives to the dominant definition of "growth
• Learning the art of visioning big
• Creating "right relationships" with employees, customers, and others
• Overcoming the common stumbling blocks, such as money, risk, competition, and success.
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface: The Great Power of Small Enterprise
- Acknowledgments
- Section One: Key No. 1: There’s More Than One Way to Define Growth
- Section Two: Key No. 2: To Live Large, You Have to Vision Big
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Section Three: Key No. 3: Right Relationship is a Big-Vision Craft
- Chapter 12: Right Relationship As a Pathway for Qualitative Growth
- Chapter 13: Golden Rules for Right Relationships
- Chapter 14: Creating Right Relationships with Employees
- Chapter 15: Maintaining Right Relationships with Employees
- Chapter 16: Creating Right Relationships with Customers
- Chapter 17: Maintaining Right Relationships with Customers
- Section Four: Key No. 4: To Live from the Source, Replenish the Well
- Parting Thoughts
- Notes
- Bibliography and Reading Guide
- Index
- About the Author
Product information
- Title: Big Vision, Small Business
- Author(s):
- Release date: October 2002
- Publisher(s): Berrett-Koehler Publishers
- ISBN: 9781605094618
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