Taking Your Business To The Next Level And Beyond: The Entrepreneur'S Guide To Developing An Exceptional Enterprise,Used

Product DescriptionThere are dozens of books that help people start businesses. Yet, few books focus on life after startup. Entrepreneurship is not about starting a business. It is about starting a business that becomes an exceptional enterprise. It is about Taking Your Business to the Next Level and Beyond! Managing growth can be like traversing a minefield. One misstep and your emerging business can be in serious trouble. Growing too fast can spell disaster. Growing too slow can result in missed opportunities. Entrepreneurs cannot afford to approach managing growth with a learning by doing and/or a trial and error approach. If you do not have the skills and ability, then you could be your firms worst enemy. As an entrepreneur, consultant, speaker, awardwinning educator, and bestselling author, Dr. Stephen C. Harper helps guide you through the minefield. His latest book: Blends the latest thinking with timeless ideas. Provides numerous lists, examples, guidelines, tips, insights, and cautions that will make the difference between thriving and just surviving. Features hundreds of Reality Checks that challenge your assumptions and practices. Concludes with insightful and candid Dos and Donts from numerous entrepreneurs. Early reviews from entrepreneurs of highgrowth ventures include: 'Great book! A must read for any new or seasoned entrepreneur, 'Dr. Harper's candid insight guides any entrepreneur through the hard realities of growth. An enjoyable, inspiring, and timely read. Dr. Harper approaches you as a Board of Advisors would, by providing you and your business with solid guidance, direction, and experience. He encourages you to face the realities of obstacles and warning signs inherent in the business growth cycle as well as provides the motivation and road map to plan for your companys future. Dr. Harper presents the essential elements of success in a thought provoking format that is sure to make an immediate impact on the way you do business. This book is not about quick fixes or growth at any cost. Dr. Harper's book offers keen insight about how to create a fast growth company that provides actual value to the marketplace opposed to shortminded strategies on 'quick flip' exits, 'Dr. Harper's 'Reality Checks' force you to truly look at your business thru the eyes of your customers, your employees and your competition. Dr. Harper has done a remarkable job putting together the best subject matter for taking your business to The Next Level and Beyond. This is The Entrepreneurs Guide to Developing an Exceptional EnterpriseAbout the AuthorStephen C. Harper, Ph.D., is an entrepreneur, consultant, speaker, awardwinning educator, and bestselling author. His books on entrepreneurship and leadership include: Taking Your Business to the Next Level and Beyond! (2012), The EverEvolving Enterprise (2011), Extraordinary Entrepreneurship (2004), The McGrawHill Guide To Starting Your Own Business (2003) a national bestseller that includes a Chinese edition, The ForwardFocused Organization (2001), The McGrawHill Guide To Managing Growth In Your Emerging Business, (1995), and Management: Who Ever Said It Would Be Easy? (Editor and coauthor, 1983). His latest book, Here's to the Crazy Entrepreneurs: Is Entrepreneurism a Mental Disorder? (2013) takes the reader inside the mindset of real entrepreneurs who change the way we live and work. Steve has been on the faculty at Arizona State University where he earned his doctorate, Duke University as a Visiting Professor of Entrepreneurship in its Executive MBA program, and The University of North Carolina Wilmington where he is the Progress Energy/Betty Cameron Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship. Steve is the recipient of numerous awards including: The University of North Carolina Board of Governors' Award for Teaching Excellence. He has also received the Chairman's Service Award by the Council for Entrepreneurial Development and