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Grow Your Handmade Business: How to Envision, Develop, and Sustain a Successful Creative Business
by Kari ChapinAre you ready to make a living from your craft? Learn how to map out a financial plan, expand production, automate distribution, address legal matters, and much more. Start growing your business beyond the dining room table and leave your day job behind.
Grow Your Value: Living and Working to Your Full Potential
by Mika BrzezinskiA woman who wants to be successful must make sacrifices, but how can she determine which ones she’ll be happy with five, ten, twenty years from now? Mika Brzezinski, Morning Joe co-host and New York Times best-selling author of Knowing Your Value, has built a career on inspiring women to assess and then obtain their true value in the workplace. In her books and in her conferences, Mika gives women the tools necessary to advocate for themselves and their financial futures. But that is only the first step; once you know your value, you need to grow it--both professionally and personally. Drawing on deeply revealing conversations with powerful and dynamic women, input from researchers and relationship experts, and her own wealth of experience, Mika helps women pinpoint their individual definition of success. She advises her readers to define the "professional value” that encompasses their worth in the workplace, and the "inner value” made up of their core beliefs and goals. Women can stop feeling overwhelmed, overscheduled, frantic, and forever guilty--but only if they choose their objectives confidently and unapologetically, and focus their efforts accordingly. Mika encourages women to stop seeking the unobtainable "work-life balance,” and instead pursue a life of honesty and authenticity, where career and home life combine rather than collide.
Grow Your Wealth Faster with Alternative Assets: A Complete Guide to the New Universe of Investment Opportunities
by Travis MillerExpand your investment horizons and increase your returns with alternative assets In Grow Your Wealth Faster with Alternative Assets, one of Australia’s leading alternative asset managers, Travis Miller, delivers an eye-opening, jargon-free guide to the lucrative opportunities available in alternative investing. You’ll learn how to successfully diversify your portfolio with alternative assets like commercial property, infrastructure, private equity, private credit, agriculture, commodities, and much more. Thanks to new financial technologies and investment platforms, these high-yield alternative investments are increasingly easy and accessible. It’s time to learn how your investment strategy can benefit from higher rewards, without taking on more risk. In Grow Your Wealth Faster with Alternative Assets, you’ll find a step-by-step method for finding and executing trades. Explore which alternative assets are right for you, and discover how to: Diversify your investment portfolio Assess risk and expected returns Avoid the traps and pitfalls Navigate fees, finances, and due diligenceGrow Your Wealth Faster with Alternative Assets shares the pros and cons of various asset classes and unpacks why these assets offer such impressive rewards—for the same (or even less) risk than traditional investments. Best of all, it outlines exactly how Australian investors can build wealth faster through exciting, creative new strategies.
Growing a Business: Strategies for Leaders & Entrepreneurs (Economist Books)
by Rupert MersonGrowth is a clear goal for ambitious entrepreneurs and leaders. It's often a short hand for business - and wider economic - success. But it's not without its pitfalls and challenges, and planning for, and managing, a growing business needs careful thought. Take, for example, the start-up facing for the first time the need to balance flexibility with more structure. Or a larger business tackling a range of divisions evolving at different speeds. Or an inspirational owner-founder confronting the need to step back and let other take the business forward. These are the kinds of challenges that Growing a Business tackles head-on. Drawing on a wide range of models and research and using case studies from across the business world, it offers practical advice and guidance on a whole range of topics, including: the different types and stages of growth; predicting the problems presented by growth; identifying growth triggers and barriers; the implications of growth: financially, culturally and for the people involved in the business. Growing a Business is required reading for owners and managers looking to understand a foster growth in their businesses.
Growing a Cluster: The Singapore Biomedical Sciences Initiative
by Christian H.M. Ketels Michael E. PorterCase
Growing an Entrepreneurial Business: Concepts & Cases
by Edward HessGrowing an Entrepreneurial Business: Concepts and Cases is a textbook designed for courses that focus on managing small to medium sized enterprises. It focuses on the major management challenges that successful start-ups encounter when leaders decide to grow and scale their businesses. The book is divided into two parts—text and cases—to provide professors with maximum flexibility in organizing their courses. The thirty-five cases can be used in conjunction with the text, or independently. Twelve cases are written as narratives with multiple teaching points, but without a focus on a particular business decision; the remaining twenty-three cases were written around specific conundrums related to strategy, operations, finance, marketing, leadership, culture, human resources, organizational design, business model, and growth. Discussion questions are provided for each case. The text portion of the book discusses key issues derived from the author's research and consulting, and is meant to complement the case method of teaching, raising issues for conversation. In addition to the real-world knowledge that students will derive from the cases, readers will take away research-based templates and models that they can use in developing or consulting with small businesses.
Growing and Managing Foreign Purchasing (The Global Warrior Series #4)
by Thomas A. CookThis book compares the basic skillset of domestic purchasing to that of global purchasing. It provides a very detailed blueprint and best practices guide for avoiding costly mistakes and improving purchasing effectiveness. It also details supply chain globalization impacts on freight, logistics, customs issues, managing foreign suppliers, risk mitigation, and profit potential improvement. It differentiates itself from other books as being more comprehensive, detailed, and broad reaching into every aspect of purchasing on an international scale.
Growing and Managing A Small Business: An Entrepreneurial Perspective
by Kathleen R. AllenGrowing and Managing a Small Business provides students with a comprehensive introduction to business ownership and management from the start-up phase through growth and harvest. Decidedly entrepreneurial in focus, this book departs from the traditional small business management text by incorporating themes and principles appropriate to managing small companies in a dynamic, global environment. In addition to up-to-date coverage of risk management and strategies for "harvesting the business," the Second Edition introduces several new chapters that examine topics such as ethics and social responsibility, family businesses, and technology. New boxed features illustrate the author's real-world approach through case studies and profiles of small businesses and entrepreneurs.
Growing Apart: Oil, Politics, and Economic Change in Indonesia and Nigeria
by Peter M. Lewis"Growing Apartis an important and distinguished contribution to the literature on the political economy of development. Indonesia and Nigeria have long presented one of the most natural opportunities for comparative study. Peter Lewis, one of America's best scholars of Nigeria, has produced the definitive treatment of their divergent development paths. In the process, he tells us much theoretically about when, why, and how political institutions shape economic growth. " —Larry Diamond, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution "Growing Apartis a careful and sophisticated analysis of the political factors that have shaped the economic fortunes of Indonesia and Nigeria. Both scholars and policymakers will benefit from this book's valuable insights. " —Michael L. Ross, Associate Professor of Political Science, Chair of International Development Studies, UCLA "Lewis presents an extraordinarily well-documented comparative case study of two countries with a great deal in common, and yet with remarkably different postcolonial histories. His approach is a welcome departure from currently fashionable attempts to explain development using large, multi-country databases packed with often dubious measures of various aspects of 'governance. '" —Ross H. McLeod, Editor,Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies "This is a highly readable and important book. Peter Lewis provides us with both a compelling institutionalist analysis of economic development performance and a very insightful comparative account of the political economies of two highly complex developing countries, Nigeria and Indonesia. His well-informed account generates interesting findings by focusing on the ability of leaders in both countries to make credible commitments to the private sector and assemble pro-growth coalitions. This kind of cross-regional political economy is often advocated in the profession but actually quite rare because it is so hard to do well. Lewis's book will set the standard for a long time. " —Nicolas van de Walle, John S. Knight Professor of International Studies, Cornell University Peter M. Lewis is Associate Professor and Director of the African Studies Program, Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies.
The Growing Business Handbook
by Adam JollyThe Growing Business Handbook is a superb reference tool for all businesses with growth potential, filled with invaluable insights and guidance from SME specialists in finance, HR, marketing, innovation, people and IT, as well as help on enterprise risk and useful legal advice. It is the reference source of choice to help you ensure and manage business growth, particularly in challenging economic conditions. Now in its 16th edition, this book looks at all the areas ripe for exploitation by your growing business and discusses ways you can manage the associated risks. It gives a comprehensive insight into the challenges involved in building a high-growth venture in 2015 and beyond.
The Growing Business Handbook
by Adam JollyThe Growing Business Handbook is a superb reference tool for all businesses with growth potential, filled with invaluable insights and guidance from SME specialists in finance, HR, marketing, innovation, people and IT, as well as help on enterprise risk and useful legal advice. It is the reference source of choice to help you ensure and manage business growth, particularly in challenging economic conditions. Now in its 15th edition, this book looks at all the areas ripe for exploitation by your growing business and discusses ways you can manage the associated risks. It gives a comprehensive insight into the challenges involved in building a high-growth venture in 2013 and beyond.
Growing Business Innovation: Book 2 (Cm Ser. #8622)
by Jonathan ReuvidInnovation is the lifeblood of a growing businesses. Traditionally it means ‘a new idea, device, technique or method’ but increasingly it is now also referred to ideas that provide better solutions, meet the needs or even provide the answers to something not yet a problem. This book address areas such as collaboration, challenges for large and small organisations, measuring innovation and getting a return on your investment. It provides answers to questions such as, can you teach innovation? What are the different types of business model for innovation? Growing Business Innovation address areas such as collaboration, challenges for large and small organisations, measuring innovation and getting a return on your investment. No matter what stage, innovation needs nurturing and this book will act as an invaluable guide with support and advice from authors who are themselves innovators. It provides answers to questions such as:Can you teach innovation? What are the different types of business model for innovation? Are there support services? Challenges for businesses Collaborate and protecting your IPAI as a spur to innovation Adapting your business to new thoughts, products and processesGetting a return on your investment
Growing Business Innovation: Creating, Marketing And Monetising Ip
by Jonathan ReuvidInnovation is the lifeblood of a growing businesses. Traditionally it means ‘a new idea, device, technique or method’ but increasingly it is now also referred to ideas that provide better solutions, meet the needs or even provide the answers to something not yet a problem. This book address areas such as collaboration, challenges for large and small organisations, measuring innovation and getting a return on your investment. It provides answers to questions such as, can you teach innovation? What are the different types of business model for innovation? Growing Business Innovation address areas such as collaboration, challenges for large and small organisations, measuring innovation and getting a return on your investment. No matter what stage, innovation needs nurturing and this book will act as an invaluable guide with support and advice from authors who are themselves innovators. It provides answers to questions such as:Can you teach innovation? What are the different types of business model for innovation? Are there support services? Challenges for businesses Collaborate and protecting your IPAI as a spur to innovation Adapting your business to new thoughts, products and processesGetting a return on your investment
Growing Business Innovation: Creating, Marketing and Monetising IP
by Jonathan ReuvidInnovation is the lifeblood of growing businesses. Indeed, it is difficult to sustain business growth without innovation. Innovation may take many forms: technical advances, new products or manufacturing processes, new applications of established products, new channels to market, new marketing techniques based on social media, or the development of unexploited markets.In commercial terms, the end product of innovation is intellectual property (IP) which can be packaged with copyright, registered with a unique trademark and then patented.The aim of Growing Business Innovation is to take the directors and corporate officers of success-driven businesses with defined innovation objectives on the journey from research to marketable product, to creating, managing and onwards to marketing and monetisation of their innovation’s IP.
The Growing Challenge of Youth Unemployment in Europe and America: A Cross-Cultural Perspective
by Radha JagannathanMuch of the literature that addresses youth unemployment has been framed within an economic paradigm and much less attention has been focused on the role played by country-specific value orientations in structuring economic activity. Drawing on extensive fieldwork research and the work of experts in Europe and the United States, this book provides a culturally nuanced analysis of key issues relating to youth unemployment. Examining the causes and consequences of youth unemployment, it explores ways forward to promote economic self-sufficiency. This pioneering work offers invaluable tailored policy solutions to tackle one of today’s most important socioeconomic issues.
Growing Christmas Trees: Select the Right Species, Raise the Best Trees, Market for the Holidays. A Storey BASICS® Title (Storey Basics)
by Patrick White Lewis HillGrowing beautiful Christmas trees is a great way to generate off-season farm income and make better use of your land. From selecting a site and planting the right species to marketing and selling trees, this Storey BASICS® guide shows you how to build and maintain your own small tree nursery. Including handy tips for making handcrafted kissing balls and holiday wreaths, Growing Christmas Trees covers everything you need to know to successfully cultivate stunning evergreens that will provide income and bring holiday cheer.
Growing Community Forests: Practice, Research, and Advocacy in Canada
by Ryan Bullock Gayle Broad Lynn Palmer M. A. Peggy SmithCanada is experiencing an unparalleled crisis involving forests and communities across the country. While municipalities, policy makers, and industry leaders acknowledge common challenges such as an overdependence on US markets, rising energy costs, and lack of diversification, no common set of solutions has been developed and implemented. Ongoing and at times contentious public debate has revealed an appetite and need for a fundamental rethinking of the relationships that link our communities, governments, industrial partners, and forests towards a more sustainable future. The creation of community forests is one path that promises to build resilience in forest communities and ecosystems. This model provides local control over common forest lands in order to activate resource development opportunities, benefits, and social responsibilities. Implementing community forestry in practice has proven to be a complex task, however: there are no road maps or well-developed and widely-tested models for community forestry in Canada. But in settings where community forests have taken hold, there is a rich and growing body of experience to draw on. The contributors to Growing Community Forests include leading researchers, practitioners, Indigenous representatives, government representatives, local advocates, and students who are actively engaged in sharing experiences, resources, and tools of significance to forest resource communities, policy makers, and industry.
The Growing Economy
by J. E. MeadeIn this sequel to his widely praised classic study of The Stationary Economy, Nobel Prize winning economist J. E. Meade continues his systematic treatment of the entire fi eld of economic analysis. He uses a series of simplifi ed models designed to show the interconnections between various specialist fi elds of economic theory.The Growing Economy departs from the position of static equilibrium Meade assumes in The Stationary Economy. Here he deals with equilibrium growth. Meade introduces capital goods and allows for growth through capital accumulation, population expansion, and technical progress. He still assumes perfect competition and the absence of indivisibilities, so that there are constant returns to scale in the productive system and a given set of consistent and independent preferences for each consumer.In this volume, an attempt is made to discuss the theory of economic growth with a minimum of mathematical analysis. In the main text no diff erential or integral calculus is employed; such mathematical techniques are used (sparingly) only in footnotes and appendices, which the general reader may avoid. Meade's treatise off ers students and specialists alike a general survey of theory in a form that is assessable even for those with little mathematical training. He takes into account the dynamics of trade, increased demand, and new technology and their impact on growth. Th is book carries the discussion a long way from the harmonious quiet of the abstract model to the untidy, real world.
The Growing Economy: Principles of Political Economy Volume II (Collected Works of James Meade)
by James E. MeadeFirst published in 1968, this is the second part of Professor Meade’s Principles of Political Economy, which presents a systematic treatment of the whole field of economic analysis in the form of a series of simplified models which are specifically designed to show the interconnections between the various specialist fields of economic theory. In this volume, Professor Meade is concerned with the theory of economic growth and the rates at which various economic quantities are growing. In order to do this, he introduces capital goods into the system and allows for growth through capital accumulation, population expansion and technical progress. His analysis is divided into two models: a one product model and a many-product model.
Growing Financial Services in India: Aditya Birla Financial Services Group
by Paul M. Healy Rachna TahilyaniAditya Birla Financial Services Group is a large, broad-based, Indian financial services institution offering products ranging from life insurance and mutual funds to private equity. The company has witnessed a turnaround in recent years and regained lost market share. However, in recent years, concerns about investor protection has increased financial sector regulatory oversight specifically in the asset management and life insurance space and changed the rules of the game. Additionally, the central bank has invited new banks to apply for licenses to operate in the country. In the face of these changes, the company has to figure out what its strategy should be to realize its vision of becoming a leading integrated financial services player offering customers a menu of products that support their needs at different stages of their life.
Growing from the Core: Developing and Refining Your Growth Strategy
by James Allen Chris ZookInternational bestseller Profit from the Core was originally published in 2001 and helped many companies find their way back to profitable growth after the Internet bubble burst. Now, the fully updated edition points the way forward in today's economy with new examples and data that demonstrate how companies have met the challenges and opportunities of turbulent times by returning to their core businesses. In today's unstable business environment, change--in company strategies, structures, and people--is crucial to achieving sustained profitable growth. To master change, managers must pursue it, not resist it. This chapter summarizes the opportunities and risks of seeking to grow the core in a turbulent business environment. It concludes with ten key questions managers should ask about their companies as they embark on growth initiatives. This chapter was originally published as Chapter 5 of Profit from the Core (Updated Edition): A Return to Growth in Turbulent Times.
Growing Global Executives: The New Competencies
by Sylvia Ann Hewlett Ripa Rashid TyagarajanaTHE CENTER FOR TALENT INNOVATION (CTI) is an NYC-based think tank which focuses on global talent strategies and the retention and acceleration of well-qualified labor across the divides of gender, generation, geography, and culture. CTI’s research partners now number 86 multinational corporations and organizations.
Growing Great Employees: Turning Ordinary People into Extraordinary Performers
by Erika Andersen"If life were fair, employees would be perfect. They would do exactly what we asked them to do, exactly when we asked them to do it - except, of course, for the fantastic ideas they would cook up on their own...Back to reality. Your employees are, like you and me, flawed and hopeful human beings whose success is at least partly dependent on your skill as a manager, human beings who will thrive with skillful and consistent attention and wither without it. "In business today we're told that management development is a thing of the past. Staying limber, preparing to change hats at a moment's notice, and keeping your finger on the pulse of the "new" - that's what we're told is critical. At this moment when companies and managers aren't focusing on the long haul, Erika Andersen says just the opposite. If you want to compete with the market leaders, grow your business, and succeed in your field, you need support: an all-star staff that epitomizes your company's mission and has the skills to implement it. How do you achieve this? Grow great employees. For twenty-five years Erika Andersen has been helping some of the best-managed companies in the world develop their employees. In Growing Great Employeesyou'll learn how they stay ahead of the competition by investing in their people. You'll discover that: Listening is your most powerful asset. Use it to motivate and build commitment. Everything you know about interviewing is wrong. Find out how to discover what you really need in a potential employee and how to find it. Successful companies hire for keeps. Get people feeling like part of the team from day one. Great leaders surround themselves with the best. Recognize who has potential and develop them into tomorrow's leaders. Whether you're a manager or a senior executive, Growing Great Employeesis your guide to creating a dynamic workplace where the efforts you make with your employees today will blossom into success for years to come.
Growing Great Employees: Turning Ordinary People into Extraordinary Performers
by Erika AndersenIntroductory people management book that uses a gardening metaphor to talk about employee management.
Growing Industrial Clusters in Asia: Serendipity and Science
by Shahid Yusuf Kaoru Nabeshima Shoichi YamashitaIndustrial clusters in Silicon Valley, Hsinchu Park, and northern Italy, and in the vicinity of Cambridge, U.K., have captured the imagination of policymakers, researchers, city planners and business people. Where clusters take root, they can generate valuable spillovers, promote innovation, and create the critical industrial mass for sustained growth. For cities such as Kitakyushu, Japan, that are faced with the erosion of their traditional industrial base and are threatened by economic decline, creating a cluster that would reverse the downward trends is enormously attractive. Growing Industrial Clusters in Asia offers practical guidance on the nature of clusters and the likely efficacy of measures that could help build a cluster. It draws on the experience of both established dynamic clusters and newly emerging ones that show considerable promise. The insights that result from its analysis will be of particular interest to policy makers, urban planners, business people, and researchers.