Big Vision, Small Business
Big Vision, Small Business
4 Keys to Success without Growing Big
Edition: 1
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 13 October, 2002
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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.
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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.
Table of contents
Preface: The Great Power of Small Enterprise
Acknowledgments
SECTION ONE:
Key No. 1: There's More Than One Way to Define Growth
Chapter 1: Finding Quality in the Land of Quantity
Chapter 2: Appreciating the Power of Small Enterprise
Chapter 3: Which is Better, Big or Small?
Chapter 4: Moving from Quantitative Growth to Qualitative Evolution
Chapter 5: Profiles in Growth
SECTION TWO:
Key No. 2: To Live Large, You Have to Vision Big
Chapter 6: Vision in the Smallest Enterprises
Chapter 7: Twelve Priorities of Big-Vision Small Businesses
Chapter 8: The Guiding Vision
Chapter 9: Vision Profile: The Cat Doctor
Chapter 10: To Plan or Not to Plan
Chapter 11: Approaches to Visioning and Planning
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
Chapter 18: Wisdom and Mastery in Business
Chapter 19: Money and Risk
Chapter 20: Competition
Chapter 21: Success and Failure
Chapter 22: Time and Balance
Chapter 23: Wisdom and Mastery Practices
Parting Thoughts
Notes
Bibliography and Reading Guide
Index
About the Author
Acknowledgments
SECTION ONE:
Key No. 1: There's More Than One Way to Define Growth
Chapter 1: Finding Quality in the Land of Quantity
Chapter 2: Appreciating the Power of Small Enterprise
Chapter 3: Which is Better, Big or Small?
Chapter 4: Moving from Quantitative Growth to Qualitative Evolution
Chapter 5: Profiles in Growth
SECTION TWO:
Key No. 2: To Live Large, You Have to Vision Big
Chapter 6: Vision in the Smallest Enterprises
Chapter 7: Twelve Priorities of Big-Vision Small Businesses
Chapter 8: The Guiding Vision
Chapter 9: Vision Profile: The Cat Doctor
Chapter 10: To Plan or Not to Plan
Chapter 11: Approaches to Visioning and Planning
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
Chapter 18: Wisdom and Mastery in Business
Chapter 19: Money and Risk
Chapter 20: Competition
Chapter 21: Success and Failure
Chapter 22: Time and Balance
Chapter 23: Wisdom and Mastery Practices
Parting Thoughts
Notes
Bibliography and Reading Guide
Index
About the Author
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