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Finding the Sweet Spot Dave Pollard

Finding the Sweet Spot By Dave Pollard

Finding the Sweet Spot by Dave Pollard


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Summary

Explains how sustainable, responsible, and joyful natural enterprises differ from most jobs, and provides a framework for building a natural enterprise. Learn how to find useful partners , how to do world-class market research, how to innovate, how to build resilience into your enterprise, and how to avoid the land mines that sink small businesses.

Finding the Sweet Spot Summary

Finding the Sweet Spot: The Natural Entrepreneur by Dave Pollard

"Now what am I going to do?" is a question many people ask - and leave unanswered - at critical potential turning points in their careers.
Perhaps youire a new graduate, but instead of lining up for a boring entry-level job at a big corporation, you wish you could start your own sustainable and responsible business. Or maybe youive been stuck in a job you hate for a few years, but you still dream of doing the thing you love and that youire actually good at. Or maybe youire a boomer and youire ready for a second career, a personal venture that will represent a total change from what youive spent most of your work life doing.
Whatever your situation, this is the book to help you get started. Finding the Sweet Spot explains how sustainable, responsible, and joyful natural enterprises differ from most jobs, and it provides the framework for building your own natural enterprise. Youill learn how to find partners who will help make your venture successful, how to do world-class market research, how to innovate, how to build resilience into your enterprise, and how to avoid the land mines that sink so many small businesses. Most importantly, youill learn how to find the "sweet spot" where your gifts, your passions, and your purpose intersect.

Finding the Sweet Spot Reviews

"With a welcome vigour Pollard reinterprets many of the tools of management for the entrepreneur. Straightforward and plain-speaking without shortchanging the complexities of creating value, Finding the Sweet Spot is a book for grown-ups who want their work to make them feel like a kid again."--Michael E. Raynor, co-author of The Innovator's Solution and author of The Strategy Paradox

About Dave Pollard

Dave Pollard spent twenty-seven years with Ernst & Young LLP as practice leader and advisor to entrepreneurs and then as chief knowledge officer and member of the firmis Strategy and Innovation Group. He recently became vice president of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants (the counterpart of the US AICPA), with responsibility for research and professional guidance on sustainability, entrepreneurship, and governance. His popular environmental and business blog can be found at howtosavetheworld.ca. He lives with his family in Toronto, Canada.

Table of Contents

Introduction: A Better Way to Make a Living Finding the Sweet Spot: Where your Gift, your Passion and your Purpose intersect Finding the Right Partners: Discovering people whose skills complement your own Finding Unmet Needs to Fill: Conducting extraordinary research Imagining and Innovating Solutions: Offering something significantly different The Resilience of Natural Enterprise Responsibility, Collaboration, Relationship, Community: The Power of People

Additional information

GOR007414083
9781933392905
1933392908
Finding the Sweet Spot: The Natural Entrepreneur by Dave Pollard
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Chelsea Green Publishing Co
2008-09-15
224
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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