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The Right-Brain Business Plan: A Creative, Visual Map for Success
by
Jennifer Lee,
Chris Guillebeau (Goodreads Author)
Turn Passionate Ideas into Profitable Enterprises
Do you dream of making a living doing what you love but find the process of creating a viable business plan like trying to fit a square peg into a round hole? Jennifer Lee knows what it’s like to make the entrepreneurial leap — and how to do it successfully. The key is using, rather than stifling, imagination and intuition....more
Do you dream of making a living doing what you love but find the process of creating a viable business plan like trying to fit a square peg into a round hole? Jennifer Lee knows what it’s like to make the entrepreneurial leap — and how to do it successfully. The key is using, rather than stifling, imagination and intuition....more
Paperback, 240 pages
Published
March 15th 2011
by New World Library
(first published February 15th 2011)
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The Right Brain Business Plan, is a different type of business book, at least in the way it is presented. In place of complex numbers and numerous words, the book uses a visual approach to demonstrate various business concepts. The book is full of sticky notes illustrations, colors, pictures and boxes that help the creative or visually oriented entrepreneur get started with their business plan.
The book offers insights into how to map out a financial plan without becoming intimidated by the numbe...more
The book offers insights into how to map out a financial plan without becoming intimidated by the numbe...more
It’s important to have a plan. You need to be very clear about your business: what you stand for, what you want to accomplish, and what you bring to the table. In this way, you can focus your energies wisely to help achieve your version of success.
Everyone who owns a business realize that they need to create a business plan. They understand the importance and agree that having a plan is probably a good thing. Doing so can be extremely intimidating.
The Right-Brain Business Plan is the business...more
Everyone who owns a business realize that they need to create a business plan. They understand the importance and agree that having a plan is probably a good thing. Doing so can be extremely intimidating.
The Right-Brain Business Plan is the business...more
The scrapbooky, 1990's cottage furniture type design really turned me off from this book. Granted, I'm reading it from the perspective of a newly minted MPA student, so terms like "budget" and "money" and "goals" don't scare me. I can see how if you really are terrified of anything to do with business and somehow calling money "moola" makes it easier to deal with, then this book is for you. The author does give very good advice and presents concepts, like "S.M.A.R.T. goals" (for Specific, Measur...more
This book walks you through all the thinking behind a business plan but has you work through the issues and the planning by making collages, filling out whimsical "play sheets" (the opposite of "work sheets") and generally turning all the analytical stuff on it's head in favor of a more intuitive, exploratory approach. At the end, Jenn offers you some guidance in going from your artistic masterpiece to a written, standard business plan if you need to go that extra step —but that's not necessaril...more
Loved this book! Why? I am not an artist - and I am creative and so are you. This taps into the right side of my brain that in the corporate world didn't get much attention.
No, I'm not afraid of numbers - having worked 10 years with engineers and another 10 years with accountants as a pension administrator - I know numbers.
I loved it because all the other business plan books I found bored me to death. Getting to the numbers for me was the easy part. Discovering what my passion was and what inspi...more
No, I'm not afraid of numbers - having worked 10 years with engineers and another 10 years with accountants as a pension administrator - I know numbers.
I loved it because all the other business plan books I found bored me to death. Getting to the numbers for me was the easy part. Discovering what my passion was and what inspi...more
If I enjoyed making collages, I probably would've gotten more out of this book. However, there is plenty of good business info presented in non-threatening, friendly language.
I kept thinking of Havi Brooks and her site, The Fluent Self, where she's been modelling this business approach for years.
If spreadsheets give you hives (I kind of dig creating a good spreadsheet) and you're building a business, I'd recommend this book.
If you're well aware that right and left brain behavior aren't so easily...more
I kept thinking of Havi Brooks and her site, The Fluent Self, where she's been modelling this business approach for years.
If spreadsheets give you hives (I kind of dig creating a good spreadsheet) and you're building a business, I'd recommend this book.
If you're well aware that right and left brain behavior aren't so easily...more
This book is for creative individuals who need help in creating a plan for themselves as business owners or entrepreneurs. I thought it would have more images, I was thinking it was going to be a Sabrina Ward Harrison style book with a creative business plan style. But I actually feel that it is more left brained with a little bit of right brained pulled in for measure.
As far as it being a good business book, I think it is as good as any other business book out there. But it didn't blow my mind....more
As far as it being a good business book, I think it is as good as any other business book out there. But it didn't blow my mind....more
Watched the CreativeLive workshop using this book and it was awesome. Requested it from the library and was eager to re-live the experience. It did not disappoint. Graphically stimulating text and the exercises are actually fun. But then, who doesn't like to collage? It's amazing what can come through. I took a magazine I don't normally read and came away with amazing insights. If you have never tried it I highly recommend it. If you are stuck it works! I will be buying this book to reference in...more
While I suspect this book could be very useful for a lot of people, I just really couldn't get past the apparently foundational idea that because I am a visual, creative person, I would therefore be afraid of spreadsheets. And I don't want to express my business plan as a collage.
I picked this up because she's doing a free workshop on creativelive.com this January; if this sounds a nifty approach to you, it's probably worth watching.
I picked this up because she's doing a free workshop on creativelive.com this January; if this sounds a nifty approach to you, it's probably worth watching.
Buku yang benar-benar menarik. Pemaparan Jennifer mirip dengan yang kulakukan selama malang-melintang di dunia kewirausahaan. Yang belum kulakukan adalah membuat rencana bisnis. Kurasa suatu hari aku akan 'mencuri' bocoran-bocoran rahasia keberhasilan Jennifer ini. ;)
Yang paling berkesan:
Menjadi wirausaha kreatif itu membutuhkan nyali, perlu tulang punggung, jiwa dan raga. Anda terus-menerus bergerak, menghadapi tantangan, dan meraih peluang, jadi sangat penting meluangkan waktu untuk merayakan...more
Yang paling berkesan:
Menjadi wirausaha kreatif itu membutuhkan nyali, perlu tulang punggung, jiwa dan raga. Anda terus-menerus bergerak, menghadapi tantangan, dan meraih peluang, jadi sangat penting meluangkan waktu untuk merayakan...more
For anyone starting, in the process of, or burnt out on writing business plans I highly recommend this book.
Although it is useless for writing an official business plan, it does provide tips, ideas for using your right-brain creativity and imagination to create a visual map for inspiration.
Filled with tables, photos, samples, checklists and exercises, this book will energize your work.
Although it is useless for writing an official business plan, it does provide tips, ideas for using your right-brain creativity and imagination to create a visual map for inspiration.
Filled with tables, photos, samples, checklists and exercises, this book will energize your work.
This book rocks! Especially, for creatives who get lost in the process of trying to make their business work. The truth is, most of us who consider writing a business plan should read this book because is takes you off the traditional path of what you think a business plan should look like.
This really helped me get my business plan well on it's way. I know I will be referring to it throughout this next year often. Great ideas and inspiration! What does success as a writer look like to me. The most important planning I've done.
Feb 21, 2013
Katie
rated it
4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Entrepreneurs, Businesses
Recommended to Katie by:
CreativeLIVE
Shelves:
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Great book! I really enjoyed making a business plan a truly creative process. It is great for business person with an artsy/crafty side and wants to bring that into the business! Definitely recommend!
Better than half way through the book realized that even this Right-Brain approach to business isn't for me. I love the concept and Lee writes with passion, empathy and heaps of research. But I move in such a different style, one where I do not see an overarching purpose or focus for my work in the long run, but rather step into the light right in front of me and then wait. I may be back to this title later.
If your an Artist, Writer, Creative Right Brainer. This business plan resource is for you, it's amazing and fun, and you get to know your business 100%.
James laughs at my magazine cut outs and crayons, but what works works.
Great alternative ideas for brainstorming your business plan.
Currently reading - although I left this out in the rain overnight, and am still drying it out slowly.
Rare book that helps out the people (like me) who have
trouble understanding all the mumbo jumbo of other
Business Plan books.
It translates the technical parts into fun, active
involvement in Business Plan development!
trouble understanding all the mumbo jumbo of other
Business Plan books.
It translates the technical parts into fun, active
involvement in Business Plan development!
Great little book. I think I'm more left-brained than right, but I still got great info out of it.
Useful book if you are developing a business plan but would like to approach it in a creative, crafty way.
Honestly this book drove me crazy. I consider myself a creative person but I am not afraid of numbers and graphs, and the words like "money" and "plan" either. I think all those "scrapbooking" plans are a waste of time and energy but then again it is just me.
If you have a creative business — or you’re thinking about starting one — this book and e-course will uncover new possibilities and inspiration that you never thought possible. An empowering must-read. (The e-course is fabulous too.)
I need to come back to this one down the road. Good reference, and good food for thought as I move forward in my professional endeavors.
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