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Risk & Resilience
WHAT DOES IT REALLY TAKE TO SURVIVE IN THE START-UP SCENE?
WHY DO SOME VENTURES THRIVE WHILST OTHERS CRUMBLE?
HOW DOES A BRAND THE WORLD LOVES END UP IN FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES?
COULD IT HAPPEN TO YOU… AND WHAT SHOULD YOU DO?
As the founder of Collective Hub, a multimedia platform that helps people unleash their full potential, best-selling author and acclaimed speaker Lisa Messenger has helped millions of entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, thought-leaders, game-changers and style-makers turn their passions into profit. That’s only one side of the story…
In the latest book in her series, Lisa reveals the tough lessons she’s learnt during the hardest 18 months of her entrepreneurial journey, when scaling too quickly, hiring without strategy and trying to please everyone almost turned her dream into disaster. And, the courageous steps she took to survive, thrive and prosper afterwards.
Written in real-time, with intimate diary entries and insights from business experts, learn how to future-proof your start-up, how to step into your 'genius zone' and why pivoting can be the most powerful business strategy.
SOMETIMES, YOU'VE GOT TO BREAK SOMETHING YOU LOVE TO REMAKE IT.
WHY DO SOME VENTURES THRIVE WHILST OTHERS CRUMBLE?
HOW DOES A BRAND THE WORLD LOVES END UP IN FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES?
COULD IT HAPPEN TO YOU… AND WHAT SHOULD YOU DO?
As the founder of Collective Hub, a multimedia platform that helps people unleash their full potential, best-selling author and acclaimed speaker Lisa Messenger has helped millions of entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, thought-leaders, game-changers and style-makers turn their passions into profit. That’s only one side of the story…
In the latest book in her series, Lisa reveals the tough lessons she’s learnt during the hardest 18 months of her entrepreneurial journey, when scaling too quickly, hiring without strategy and trying to please everyone almost turned her dream into disaster. And, the courageous steps she took to survive, thrive and prosper afterwards.
Written in real-time, with intimate diary entries and insights from business experts, learn how to future-proof your start-up, how to step into your 'genius zone' and why pivoting can be the most powerful business strategy.
SOMETIMES, YOU'VE GOT TO BREAK SOMETHING YOU LOVE TO REMAKE IT.
223 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2018
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About the author
Lisa Messenger
47 books62 followersLisa Messenger is the vibrant, game-changing founder, CEO and editor-in-chief of Collective Hub. She launched Collective Hub as a print magazine in 2013, with no experience in an industry that people said was either dead or dying. Collective Hub has since grown into an international multimedia business and lifestyle platform with multiple verticals across print, digital, events and education – all of which serve to ignite human potential.
Five years and 52 issues into the print magazine Lisa made the courageous move to “break” the very thing that she started – the print magazine – enabling her to take some time and space to evolve into the next iteration and again disrupt… watch this space.
Lisa is an international speaker, best-selling author, and an authority on disruption in both the corporate sector and the start-up scene. Lisa’s experience in publishing has seen her produce over 400 custom-published books for companies and individuals as well as having authored and co-authored 24 herself.
Most notably, Lisa chartered her ride to success with her bestselling book Daring & Disruptive: Unleashing the Entrepreneur and its sequels Life & Love: Creating the Dream, which reached number-one on Booktopia; Money & Mindfulness: Living in Abundance, that shot to best-selling status within the first month; Breakups & Breakthroughs: Turn an Ending Into a Beginning and Purpose soon followed.
Her passion is to challenge individuals and corporations to get out of their comfort zones, find their purpose, change the way they think, and to prove there’s more than one way to do anything. She encourages creativity, innovation, and an entrepreneurial spirit, and lives life to the absolute max. Most mornings she wakes up and pinches herself at how incredible her life is, but is also acutely aware and honest about life’s bumps and tumbles along the way.
With fans including Sir Richard Branson and New York Times best-selling author Bradley Trevor Greive, and a loyal fan base, Lisa’s vision is to build a community of like-minded people who want to change the world.
Five years and 52 issues into the print magazine Lisa made the courageous move to “break” the very thing that she started – the print magazine – enabling her to take some time and space to evolve into the next iteration and again disrupt… watch this space.
Lisa is an international speaker, best-selling author, and an authority on disruption in both the corporate sector and the start-up scene. Lisa’s experience in publishing has seen her produce over 400 custom-published books for companies and individuals as well as having authored and co-authored 24 herself.
Most notably, Lisa chartered her ride to success with her bestselling book Daring & Disruptive: Unleashing the Entrepreneur and its sequels Life & Love: Creating the Dream, which reached number-one on Booktopia; Money & Mindfulness: Living in Abundance, that shot to best-selling status within the first month; Breakups & Breakthroughs: Turn an Ending Into a Beginning and Purpose soon followed.
Her passion is to challenge individuals and corporations to get out of their comfort zones, find their purpose, change the way they think, and to prove there’s more than one way to do anything. She encourages creativity, innovation, and an entrepreneurial spirit, and lives life to the absolute max. Most mornings she wakes up and pinches herself at how incredible her life is, but is also acutely aware and honest about life’s bumps and tumbles along the way.
With fans including Sir Richard Branson and New York Times best-selling author Bradley Trevor Greive, and a loyal fan base, Lisa’s vision is to build a community of like-minded people who want to change the world.
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April 28, 2021
My CEO asked me to read this. I do judge a book by a cover, why wouldn't you? Thought goes into it, or as in this case the lack of. It's self absorbent and whingy. What happened is awful and great that she's out of it but I think a lot of people in business, especially business that centres around the carefully crafted projection of 'self' are egotistical. People forget what makes businesses work is people, the people you engage with the people you work with. When there's an ego at the helm, there is often an inability to see beyond one's own nose. To preach self-awareness and connectivity without seeing the effect and more so the damage you have on others, to see not yourself at the eye of the storm of your own creation happens more often than not. Also, I am exhausted from hearing another white woman complaining about business. The book drips in privilege and it's boring. Don't waste your time.
September 24, 2018
First business book I’ve ever finished! I definitely felt inspired in parts and like I was gaining true industry insight, while enjoying a beautifully designed layout.
There was a bunch of repetition of ideas to flesh out the book and, what felt by the final chapter, like self-justification (rather than advice) re. the closure of Collective Hub.
Fav quote: When you have a kick-arse brand it can form the base for anything you want it to be.
There was a bunch of repetition of ideas to flesh out the book and, what felt by the final chapter, like self-justification (rather than advice) re. the closure of Collective Hub.
Fav quote: When you have a kick-arse brand it can form the base for anything you want it to be.
August 21, 2018
As a Collective Hub and Lisa Messenger fangirl, this book was a great overview of the business, its decisions over the past twelve months and how it got where it is now - a folded magazine, but not a folded business. It was eye-opening to see what so many would have seen as failure from a different viewpoint and taking the necessary steps to ensure what so many people love and admire didn't disappear into a failed venture.
As a book for people needing guidance with their own struggling businesses it falls a little flat. It gives snippets of what owners, CEO's etc should perhaps explore or give thought too but if you're searching for something to give you overwhelming detail and how to execute it, this isn't the book for you. However it would provide you with a great perspective of what not to do in the growth stages of your business and the signs that you shouldn't ignore. Love that Lisa gives her heart and soul into everything she writes - the rawness and realness is what is lacking in so much of today's society. Thanks to social media, all that everyone seems to see is polished perfection, which we know it isn't 85% of the time. It's hard- people should see that and know it.
As a book for people needing guidance with their own struggling businesses it falls a little flat. It gives snippets of what owners, CEO's etc should perhaps explore or give thought too but if you're searching for something to give you overwhelming detail and how to execute it, this isn't the book for you. However it would provide you with a great perspective of what not to do in the growth stages of your business and the signs that you shouldn't ignore. Love that Lisa gives her heart and soul into everything she writes - the rawness and realness is what is lacking in so much of today's society. Thanks to social media, all that everyone seems to see is polished perfection, which we know it isn't 85% of the time. It's hard- people should see that and know it.
December 2, 2018
Lisa is great but for some reasons the book just didnt click to me. Could be because I’m at the process of building a startup while the book is all about much later stages in the company’s cycle. Nevertheless, it has some good tips that I benefited a lot from but wish it offered more value to me...
January 11, 2019
Really enjoyed this book. If you're a fan of Lisa's or The Collective, this insight into the business is fascinating. I think I skipped one chapter that wasn't relevant to me but the rest of it I loved!
September 21, 2020
I love reading Lisa Messenger’s books, they’re full of hope and inspiration and (as the title of this one says) RESILIENCE! Based on her experience as an entrepreneur but a great example of the guts and determination it takes to succeed in anything in life. Amazing role model 👌🏼
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