Only few of us feel that we set our work at what we do best, and are doing what we most love doing. People who are unhappy at work can't use their unique skills. They feel they are wasting an important part of their lives. What should they do then? Their ultimate option is: starting a business on their own. The business world is full of enormous opportunities. So, it’s no surprise that we all dream of starting our own businesses. Yet, only few of us make the leap to this fundamental aspiration. What holds back the rest of us is nothing but a set of wrong assumptions and myths about how to start a substantial business. Conventional wisdom is just plain wrong. It only works to defuse our desire to start a business
Whatever your situation, this is the book to help you get started. Finding the Sweet Spot explains how sustainable, responsible, and joyful natural enterprises differ from most jobs, and it provides the framework for building your own natural enterprise. You’ll learn how to find partners who will help make your venture
Gallup Co. assembled a selected group of its social scientists to examine the 1 million employee interviews in its database in order to find which survey questions were most powerful in explaining worker's productive motivations on the job. Ultimately, 12 elements of work life emerged as the core of the unwritten
Today, that way of thinking about strategy is in tatters. It would be easy to bemoan the loss of so much security and stability, and it is indeed important to be candid about the downsides and the social adjustment costs. But it’s just as important to be excited about the opportunities
The corporate world is filled with men and women who have worked hard to reach upper level management. They're intelligent, skilled, and even charismatic. But only a handful of them will ever reach the pinnacle -- and as executive coach Marshall Goldsmith shows in this book, subtle nuances make all the