How to Save Your Life
Sack Your Boss, Start Your Own Business, Find Your Passion
1st Edition
Published on 31. October 2009
256 pages
978-1-4081-1218-2 (ISBN)
Description
Thousands of people every year think about starting their own business. Whether you are tired and disillusioned with corporate life, are considering changing career paths in order to spend more time with family, or have been forced to look for alternative ways of working following a credit-crunch redundancy, How to Save Your Life offers inspirational, real-life advice on how to work out if setting up your own business is the answer, and how to get started on the path to becoming an entrepreneur.
Packed with self-assessment tests and quizzes, this book will help you work out what skills you have and what kind of business would suit you best, whether it be consulting, franchising, party planning, creating things, life coaching, catering or lecturing. It also addresses the financial issues which scare off many potential entrepreneurs, and explains how to avoid the common pitfalls and increase the odds of your success.
Packed with self-assessment tests and quizzes, this book will help you work out what skills you have and what kind of business would suit you best, whether it be consulting, franchising, party planning, creating things, life coaching, catering or lecturing. It also addresses the financial issues which scare off many potential entrepreneurs, and explains how to avoid the common pitfalls and increase the odds of your success.
More details
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
line drawings
ISBN-13
978-1-4081-1218-2 (9781408112182)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Steve Carey | Susannah Bowen
How to Save Your Life
Sack your boss, start your own business, find your passion
Book
10/2009
A & C Black Publishers Ltd
€36.11
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Persons
After working in a wide variety of publishing roles in Europe and Australia, Susannah Bowen and Steve Carey set up their own publishing training and consultancy business, Bloom Partners, in Australia in 2005. They are co-authors of How to Get a Job in Publishing (A&C Black, 2008).
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Why everyone's leaving
- 2. Why are you reading this book?
- 3. Questionnaire: regret and happiness
- 4. Building your goals
- 5. What suits?
- 6. Choices, choices: your options and how to find them
- 7. Will it work?
- 8. Researching your options
- 9. Building your dream team
- 10. Take your partners
- 11. To market, to market
- 12. Doing business in a Global Financial Crisis
- 13. Help! And where to get it
- 14. Planning your business plan
- 15. Business plan template
- 16. Some ways to improve your odds
- 17. Ten common pitfalls: which one will you fall into?
- 18. What are you like? The natural history of the entrepreneur
- 19. Where is all this going?
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
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