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false <![CDATA[Growing a Business]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171176366m/89989.jpg 89989 5 Nearly everyone harbors a secret dream of starting or owning a business. In fact, 1,000,000 businesses start in the United States every year. Many of them fail, but enough succeed so that small businesses are now adding millions of jobs to the economy at the same time that the Fortune 500 companies are actually losing jobs.Paul Hawken -- entrepreneur and best-selling author -- wrote Growing a Business for those who set out to make their dream a reality. He knows what he's talking about; he is his own best example of success. In the early 1970s, while he was still in his twenties, he founded Erewhon, the largest distributor of natural foods. More recently, he founded and still runs Smith & Hawken, the premier mail-order garden tool company. And he wrote a critically acclaimed book called The Next Economy about the future of the economy.Using examples like Patagonia, Ben & Jerry's Homemade Ice Cream, and University National Bank of Palo Alto, California, Hawken shows that the successful business is an expression of an individual person. The most successful business, your idea for a business, will grow from something that is deep within you, something that can't be stolen by anyone because it is so uniquely yours that anyone else who tried to execute your idea would fail. He dispels the myth of the risk-taking entrepreneur. The purpose of business, he points out, is not to take risks but rather to get something done. 1154700 1987 Growing a Business total:58|5:0|4:3|3:1|2:0|1:0| 58 227 131 6 3 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Feb 11 23:32:50 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 11 23:43:13 -0800 2009
If you think that running a business is impossibly complicated or something you could never do, or that you have to have tons of capital to start one, reading this will put those kinds of fallacies in pers...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jun 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 26 07:52:48 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 03 10:10:17 -0700 2009
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The do's and dont's in plain language. No business school jargon or hard to read advise.]]> 4 0 false false Fri Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Wed Aug 22 15:58:05 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 22 15:58:40 -0700 2007 5 0 false false Fri Jun 06 11:21:58 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 06 11:22:22 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Fri Nov 20 17:25:55 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 20 17:25:57 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Fri Nov 20 15:39:10 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 20 15:39:10 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sat Nov 14 15:30:03 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 14 15:30:09 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Fri Nov 13 16:07:46 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 13 16:07:46 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Mon Nov 02 01:40:41 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 02 01:40:41 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Tue Oct 27 20:28:14 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 27 20:28:24 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Oct 21 14:02:37 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 21 14:02:37 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Oct 18 21:50:12 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 18 21:50:12 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Oct 11 08:28:14 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 08:28:14 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Oct 08 21:08:59 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 26 05:34:45 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Thu Oct 08 10:44:23 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 08 10:44:23 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Mon Oct 05 22:10:14 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 05 22:10:14 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Sep 23 18:26:02 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 23 18:26:02 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Sep 23 14:18:13 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 23 14:18:13 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=89989