Kirjahaku

Success in business is usually defined in terms of the size of the business -- the bigger you are the more successful you must be. However, over 90% of businesses around the world have fewer than five employees. So, you can remain small AND be very successful -- it is simply how YOU define success.This book takes you through the steps to small business success.As every small business owner knows, your business, family and personal lives connect in ways that don't apply to bigger businesses. This book takes a holistic view at your small business and most importantly at you, your wellbeing and your happiness in running your small business and how you achieve success, as you define it.As the owner of a small business you have many roles to fill: marketing manager, strategist, HR manager, lawyer, accountant ... and the list goes on. While you can't be an expert in all these fields, you can learn the key factors for each role, and how to make the parts work together to achieve your business and personal goals.You'll learn: Caring for yourself How to set, track and achieve your long-term goals The importance of setting out what your small business stands for The marketing essentials every small business owner must know How to hire, and keep the best people How to set up systems and processes that drive operational excellence How to be a better manager of the finances How to calculate what your small business is worth Where to get funding for your small business

What was the real reason for the failure of South Canterbury Finance and could it have been saved? Was it really the fall in coal prices that sank Solid Energy? Why did Pumpkin Patch collapse? Why do over 2000 small businesses go into liquidation every year in New Zealand? Why did David Ross defraud over $100 million from Kiwis' life savings in the failure of Ross Asset Management?Why did the leaders of these businesses make decisions that ultimately saw the demise of the business they led? Why do we all make decisions that we know are not likely to be good for us, whether in business or in life?To take a journey through the failures of kiwi business requires a journey through all our irrational minds. While failures were caused by factors such as excessive debt, no cash, external forces, weak governance, poor skills, failure to pay taxes and more, all can be linked back to the decisions people did or didn't make.This book is backed by the extensive research of leading academics, and interviews with the CEOs, CFOs and board members of failed businesses. It includes discussions with journalists, fraudsters, insolvency experts, lawyers, official information requests and much more. Take a journey through the irrational mind that we all share and see what part that mind plays in the success and failure of business. Share the background and the stories of those at the heart of these failures.In reading this book you will learn why businesses fail, and what role being human played in the decisions made. Most importantly, you will learn what can be done to be more successful in our business lives.

The true story of 7 kids being raised by a single mother in the slums of lower East Side Manhattan during the 1950's. A tale of growing up poor and struggling for dignity as seen through the eyes of one of her sons. The sometimes poignant, often humorous, but always grateful description of a mother's relentless struggle to keep her family together despite the challenges of poverty, crime, and the well-meaning social agencies that would have separated them. Nurtured by a bare-knuckled mother who used fear to keep them in line, Ruthie's Kids will be forever indebted to the woman who understood the meaning of "tough love" before it became a fashionable cliche. Thanks to her courage and commitment, 7 kids survived the urban jungle, ended the welfare dependency, and became productive citizens.

A woman, desperate to save her marriage, gives her husband's mistress a reason to break off the affair and disappear. A detective with an unsolvable case discovers a leak in his own home. A cop learns a lesson about the evil that stalks the night. A chemist invents a synthetic blood, and becomes its first victim. A man's wife is savagely raped, and she knows who did it. Her husband decides to save the court the expense of a trial. A man finds murder for sale at every meeting he attends. Lovers plot to kill the woman's husband, but find themselves trapped in a scheme they didn't anticipate. An unscrupulous lawyer fights a losing battle with her conscience. These and dozens of other stories to keep you up at night and make you wonder about the people in your orbit that may not be who you think they are.

When a man wanders into an antique shop to get out of the rain, he discovers a way to satisfy his every desire. He soon learns that even unlimited power has drawbacks if recklessly used. As he gets accustomed to his newfound ability to influence the world, he finds challenges that even he can't overcome. He also learns that his lust for life can result in death. Each time the mysterious force is transferred to another, the owner becomes obsessed with its possibilities. When the unseen power reaches to the highest levels of government, it collides head-on with the two most famous names in politics, and together, this unlikely couple, forms an alliance to defeat the sinister plot that targeted them in a scheme to rule the country.