The Success Toolbox for Entrepreneurs

By Janis Vos

This book provides advice for individuals about to enter business, building a business, running a franchise, or investing in a company. The author uses the Nine S program (strategy, structure, skills, sense, systems, social, spirit, success, and sharing) to make her techniques and tools easy to understand and to remember.

Succession Planning Simplified

By Tony Granger, Carl Islam

Succession Planning Simplified" is a practical guide to the whole area, including a review of legal and taxation implications of the various alternative types of succession plan, and a thorough explanation of the planning methodology involved.

Loops: The Seven Keys to Small Business Success

By Ph.D.,Mike Chaet, Ph.D.,Stephen C. Lundin, Vince Moravek, Mary Chaet

Why do some small businesses succeed while others fail?

That is the question one young entrepreneur faces in this illuminating business parable for our times. Loops reveals the soul-searching story of Tony, a business student who doesn’t understand why he can’t quit school and work in the family business.

Crush It!

By Gary Vaynerchuk

Do you have a hobby you wish you could indulge in all day? An obsession that keeps you up at night? Now is the perfect time to take that passion and make a living doing what you love. In Crush It! Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion, Gary Vaynerchuk shows you how to use the power of the Internet to turn your real interests into real businesses.

Success Mapping: Achieve What You Want...Right Now!

By Marshall Goldsmith, Mark Reiter

With innovative techniques derived from proven corporate performance tools, Success Mapping will help everyone, from students to CEOs, plan for lasting and meaningful success. Filled with inspiring anecdotes and focused on actual achievement, Success Mapping cuts through doubt and confusion with simple yet rigorous actions.

How to Be a Successful Entrepreneur: Spot the Opportunity, Take a Risk and Build a Brilliant Business

By Helga Drummond

How to be a Successful Entrepreneur explains how to improve the odds of business success. It will help entrepreneurs steer clear of potentially catastrophic risks and errors while spotting and exploiting good opportunities. The author addresses important decisions such as: How do I recognize a good opportunity? When should I take a risk? When should I cut my losses? When is the best time to sell a thriving business? How do I know what’s best for me?

Real-life examples include the failure of Barings bank, the success of Dell computers, and business-changing decisions by Coca-Cola.

The Knack: How Street-Smart Entrepreneurs Learn to Handle Whatever Comes Up

By Norm Brodsky, Bo Burlingham

People starting out in business tend to seek step-by-step formulas or specific rules, but in reality there are no magic bullets. Rather, says veteran entrepreneur Norm Brodsky, there's a mentality that helps street-smart people solve problems and pursue opportunities as they arise. He calls it "the knack" and it has made all the difference to the eight successful start-ups of his career.

Prepare for the Worst, Plan for the Best: Disaster Preparedness and Recovery for Small Businesses

By Donna R. Childs

While major disasters cannot be prevented, you can equip your small business with the knowledge needed to mitigate your risks and recover quickly when they occur. Prepare for the Worst, Plan for the Best presents you with a structured, time-tested blueprint to help you evaluate your business in terms of its vulnerability and guide you through developing a cost-effective, individualized disaster and recovery plan.

The Sticking Point Solution: 9 Ways to Move Your Business from Stagnation to Stunning Growth In Tough Economic Times

By Jay Abraham

Businesses can plateau, stall, or stagnate...without the owners or key executives even realizing it. The purpose of The Sticking Point Solution is to help entrepreneurs and executives recognize the ways in which their businesses may be stuck, and to then give them tools for getting unstuck and enjoying exponential growth. To achieve this, Jay will help you to identify the nine “sticking points” that keep entrepreneurs and executives alike grinding just to survive, instead of growing and thriving.

Unlocking that true business potential and diagnosing the specific issues that each reader/business owner/entrepreneur/employee faces is the mission of this book. The results: freedom from stagnation and stalling; new levels of profitability and success; and a much greater sense of control and pleasure from running the enterprise.

Smart Green: How to Implement Sustainable Business Practices in Any Industry - and Make Money

By Bill Collier

While there is more interest than ever in sustainability in the business community, there has never been a practical, real-world guide that shows entrepreneurs how to meld sustainability and business success. Smart Green explores the best ideas in sustainable business, helps you plan a sustainability strategy, and presents case studies and business principles to show you how it's done.

Smart Green is not only the perfect book for entrepreneurs, it's also great for anyone interested in business, the environment, and how they interact.