The Engine of America

Winning business strategies from CEOs of 50 successful smallbusinesses (some of which are now large corporations) who sharetheir experiences to help those starting or growing their ownbusiness
Small business is the engine that drives America's new economy. InThe Engine of America, former administrator of the Small BusinessAdministration (SBA), Hector Barreto and veteran journalist BobWagman reveal the winning business strategies of CEOs from 50companies. For all those starting or growing their own smallbusiness, the wisdom, experience, and counsel of these successfulleaders provides inspirational and thoughtful advice on making itas an entrepreneur.
In this book, Barreto shares details of business success, and theinsights he gained while administering the nation's largest smallbusiness loan, training, and counseling organization. Some of thosesharing their stories in The Engine of America have grown theirbusinesses from the most humble of beginnings into corporate giantswhose brands are household names and whose operations are integralparts of the national economy. Others may not be instantlyrecognizable, but what they have in common is success.
Hector Barreto believes if you can teach a small business ownersomething he or she doesn't know, but which is critical to thegrowth of their small business or which allows them to avoid acritical mistake, you have helped put them on the road to success.That's what The Engine of America will do.
Hector V. Barreto (Los Angeles, CA) is the former five-yearadministrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration where hedirected a $60 billion support system for American entrepreneurs.He has lived and worked in all regions of the country, and iscurrently the Chairman of the Latino Coalition and a frequentspeaker on small business topics. Robert Wagman (Washington, DC) isthe former Capitol bureau chief for Scripps Howard's NewspaperEnterprise Association. He is also a former field producer for 60Minutes, editor of the World Almanac on Politics, and author ofmany business and political nonfiction books.