100 Great Business Ideas: From leading companies around the world

By Jeremy Kourdi

Poised to be the catalyst for business success, this collection of great ideas provides the fuel for companies of all sizes to create value and success. Some of the biggest corporate names supply their fire-tested strategies, accompanied by advice on applying their suggestions to different business situations.

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.

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.

Exploiting Chaos: 150 Ways to Spark Innovation During Times of Change

By Jeremy Gutsche

Did you know that Hewlett Packard, Disney, Hyatt, MTV, CNN, Microsoft, Burger King, and GE all started during periods of economic recession? Periods of uncertainty fuel tremendous opportunity, but the deck gets reshuffled and the rules of the game get changed. Exploiting Chaos is the ultimate business survival guide for all those looking to change the world. Topics include: Sparking a Revolution, Trend Hunting, Adaptive Innovation and Infectious Messaging.

Small Business Ideas: 400 Latest & Greatest Small Business Ideas

By Terry Kyle

Do you hold the desire to become the mistress or master of your own professional destiny? In an age of corporate downsizing, blatant age discrimination and salary expectations of 60-80+ hours of work a week, small business has never looked more attractive. But which small business is right for you? To help your small business journey get started, this book includes over 400 of the latest, greatest and newest small business ideas and innovative new product/service-based small business approaches - genius in many cases - from all around the world.

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.

Restart: Life-Tactics for Today's Economy

By Peter M. Kash, Tom Monte

In this original view on what makes for business success, Peter Kash sees opportunity even in today's challenging economy. Kash, one of Wall Street's most successful venture capitalists, shows how to recognize and seize the moment that turns dreams of great fortune into reality. Originally published in 2002, this revised and expanded edition has insight most relevant to today's difficult business climate, including examples of how outstanding opportunities often lie in innocuous, thoughtless, or even traumatic events. Inspiring and practical, RESTART: Life-Tactics for Today's Economy illustrates how anyone can make their own luck by learning how to recognize the signs of opportunity knocking.

Visionary Business: An Entrepreneur's Guide to Success

By Marc Allen

Visionary Business presents 12 keys of business success and 25 principles and practices of visionary business.

You will learn the value of benefits and profit-sharing programs; the importance of hiring passionate people; management by goals rather than by crisis; why money, while essential, is secondary; how opportunities lurk within every adversity; why an employee handbook is a powerful tool for success; and how some understanding of a higher power can provide guidance and inspiration.

Small Business Survival Guide: Starting, Protecting, And Securing Your Business for Long-Term Success

By Cliff Ennico

If there's anyone qualified to write a self-help book on success, it's Jack Canfield, who's worked his way from scraping by as a teacher to holding a Guinness world record for having seven books simultaneously on The New York Times® Best Sellers list.

Guerrilla Business Secrets: 58 Ways to Start, Build, and Sell Your Business

By Jay Conrad Levinson, Steve Savage

Do you long to run your own business? Guerrilla Business Secrets will captivate you. By living vicariously through Steve Savage's desolate disasters & tremendous triumphs, you will gain knowledge of nearly every facet of starting & running a business.