The Focused Business: How Entrepreneurs Can Triumph Over Chaos

by Dave Crenshaw

The Evil Forces of Chaos Are Out to Destroy Your Small Business! Here’s how you can stop them . . . If you own or work in a small business, you’re at risk. Massive risk. Within five years of business operation, more than half of all businesses fail. By year ten, more than 65% are cut down. Why is this? And—more importantly—how can YOU break the cycle? In this highly original take on entrepreneurship, bestselling author, speaker, and business coach Dave Crenshaw confronts Chaos, the prime culprit of small business failure. He then arms you with the superhero utility belt you need to defeat Chaos and build a focused business. Through real-world examples, in-depth worksheets, and a healthy dose of wit, The Focused Business helps business owners and their key employees develop an action plan to overcome the seven Agents of Chaos, stay focused, and maximize profit. For any entrepreneur seeking to create a solid foundation for lasting growth, The Focused Business is the fun, imaginative, and absolutely invaluable guidebook.

Genres: Business, Amazon, Leadership

202 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 3, 2013

About the author

Dave Crenshaw develops productive leaders in Fortune 500 companies, universities, and organizations of every size. He has appeared in Time magazine, USA Today, FastCompany, and the BBC News. His courses on LinkedIn Learning have been viewed tens of millions of times. His five books have been published in eight languages, the most popular of which is The Myth of Multitasking, a time management bestseller. As an author, speaker, and online instructor, Dave has transformed the lives and careers of hundreds of thousands around the world.

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Reviews

[Carrie Kellenberger · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Focused Business: How Entrepreneurs Can Triumph Over Chaos is a terrific little book with loads of information that can be referred to later. (I will absolutely be referring back to this book at a later date.) It also comes with a number of helpful spreadsheets and worksheets to assist with focusing in on the evil forces that destroy your small business.

As a small business owner, I smiled at Crenshaw's description of the different types of people that can cause chaos in your business. In fact, I recognized a few of these characters from my past.

In The Focused Business: How Entrepreneurs Can Triumph Over Chaos, Dave Crenshaw, who is a bestselling author, speaker and business coach, offers his original ideas on how small businesses fail and how to focus on making your business better.

His book is fresh, funny, and easy-to-read with lots of real-life examples.

Even better, I managed to nab this book for FREE through BookBub. If you're an entrepreneur and you have some time to spare, spend a few hours reading through The Focused Business: How Entrepreneurs Can Triumph Over Chaos for new insights into how you can hone your business into a profit-making machine while avoiding those evil forces that plague most small business owners and entrepreneurs.

[Todd Handy · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was the first of Dave's books that I read, and he had me at "focus". One of the things we say where I work is that we need to focus and finish better. We start lots of things- we're an innovative company. But, then we start too many things and have too many plates spinning and have problems finishing.

Focus will lead to discipline which will lead to finishing. And, I know that since I can be OCD and ADD, I often need to tune out all the other "noise" and focus on what I need to do. Like right now. I have a zillion things I could be doing, but I'm writing a book review.

FOCUS Todd!

[John · Rating 4 out of 5]

Solid Approach to Handling Small Business Chaos

Overall, the author has air tight system for overcoming the many different ways that your business can go off-track. There are some valuable stories, but I would have liked some more individual cases or examples.