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The Best Book For New Or Experienced Entrepreneurs Who Want To Grow Their Business!You've started a brand-new business. Are you ready to crush the competition? It's no secret that starting a new business isn't easy. Once everything is up and running, however, entrepreneurs face a new set of challenges. It's time to leave the uncertainty behind and start scaling the success of your business. Best-selling author, professor, and consultant Ken Colwell, PhD, MBA knows what it takes to fuel the growth that brings a new business out of the early startup days and into a new phase of profitability. Drawing on nearly three decades of hands-on experience, Colwell lays out the clearest path yet for new entrepreneurs who need to manage hiring, daily operations, and business growth while developing critical leadership, time management, and growth mindset skills. Use the guidance in this book to secure the future of your business. It doesn't matter if your company is two weeks old or two years old-this book will teach you how to scale operations, strengthen your bottom line, and build a resilient business that stands out from the competition for years to come! Running and Growing a Business QuickStart Guide Is Perfect For: New or experienced entrepreneurs getting their businesses off the ground First-time entrepreneurs planning for the future Current business owners who are struggling to scale or aren't happy with their rate of growth New managers, new startup hires, or current employees angling for a promotion Anyone who wants to get a better picture of how best to manage a business for the long term Running and Growing a Business QuickStart Guide Explains: How to scale your business and stand out in a competitive business environment How to excel at business management fundamentals from managing your LLC to growing your company How to run your start-up on a day-to-day, month-to-month, and year-to-year basis How fund growth without overextending yourself and maintaining profitability YOU WILL LEARN: Growth Management Fundamentals - How to Ignite, Control, and Profitably Sustain Business Growth How to Grow as an Entrepreneur - Learn Valuable Time Management Skills and How to Live a Self-Actualized Life How to Be a Better Leader - Learn How to Inspire Your Team, Delegate Effectively, and Achieve Your Goals How to Manage Your Business - Measure and Improve Day-To-Day Success, Standardize Procedures, and Scale Profitably How to Hire the Perfect Team, How to Accelerate Business Innovation, How to Grow Your Bottom Line, and More! If you have ever looked at your new business and asked yourself ""where do I go from here?"" this book is for you! Ken Colwell, PhD, MBA is also the author of the bestselling book Starting a Business QuickStart Guide.

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"""A soup-to-nuts manual focuses on all aspects of effectively managing a business. Colwell prefaces his latest addition to the popular QuickStart Guide series by assuring his readers that he was no natural-born entrepreneur. ""I'm a Gen-Xer,"" he writes, ""my dad was a corporate wage slave and I assumed I would be too."" But a series of posts as dean at various business schools broadened his experience and gave him a greater perspective on the changing nature of the startup world. ""Gone are the days when you needed to raise millions of dollars and live in San Francisco or one of the other entrepreneurial hot spots,"" he observes. In these pages, he takes his readers through the three main parts of his advice: ""Getting Yourself Ready for Growth, Maneuvering for Growth, and Strategic Issues in Growing Your Business."" He warns them about disregarding pages. ""You may be tempted to skip over the material in Part I to get to the more nuts-and-bolts stuff in Parts II and III,"" he writes. ""Resist that temptation."" In short, pithy chapters filled with quotes, sidebars, bulleted points, and Donnachie and Duquette's useful illustrations, the author covers the whole range of what entrepreneurs need to make a success of their ventures, from the round-the-clock energy of launching the enterprise to the grit needed to continue expanding. He periodically weighs in with vivid business world examples as well as ""My Take"" reflections on it all. Colwell's counsel is personable, vigorous, and direct, which helps to compensate for the familiar nature of some of the tips he relates in his manual. ""Optimism doesn't mean sitting back and believing everything will be fine,"" he writes in one passage. ""That's not optimism; that's denial."" ""Accountability-or lack of it-has a powerful influence on company culture,"" goes another passage. ""You lead by example when you respond to mistakes."" Perhaps some skipping ahead is warranted after all. An energetic but sometimes familiar guide to becoming an entrepreneurial success."" - Kirkus Reviews"

""A soup-to-nuts manual focuses on all aspects of effectively managing a business. Colwell prefaces his latest addition to the popular QuickStart Guide series by assuring his readers that he was no natural-born entrepreneur. ""I'm a Gen-Xer,"" he writes, ""my dad was a corporate wage slave and I assumed I would be too."" But a series of posts as dean at various business schools broadened his experience and gave him a greater perspective on the changing nature of the startup world. ""Gone are the days when you needed to raise millions of dollars and live in San Francisco or one of the other entrepreneurial hot spots,"" he observes. In these pages, he takes his readers through the three main parts of his advice: ""Getting Yourself Ready for Growth, Maneuvering for Growth, and Strategic Issues in Growing Your Business."" He warns them about disregarding pages. ""You may be tempted to skip over the material in Part I to get to the more nuts-and-bolts stuff in Parts II and III,"" he writes. ""Resist that temptation."" In short, pithy chapters filled with quotes, sidebars, bulleted points, and Donnachie and Duquette's useful illustrations, the author covers the whole range of what entrepreneurs need to make a success of their ventures, from the round-the-clock energy of launching the enterprise to the grit needed to continue expanding. He periodically weighs in with vivid business world examples as well as ""My Take"" reflections on it all. Colwell's counsel is personable, vigorous, and direct, which helps to compensate for the familiar nature of some of the tips he relates in his manual. ""Optimism doesn't mean sitting back and believing everything will be fine,"" he writes in one passage. ""That's not optimism; that's denial."" ""Accountability-or lack of it-has a powerful influence on company culture,"" goes another passage. ""You lead by example when you respond to mistakes."" Perhaps some skipping ahead is warranted after all. An energetic but sometimes familiar guide to becoming an entrepreneurial success."" - Kirkus Reviews

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Dr. Ken Colwell, PhD, MBA, and author of Starting A Business QuickStart Guide and Running & Growing a Business QuickStart Guide, is a seasoned strategic and operational leader with extensive experience working within entrepreneurial ecosystems and interacting with relevant private and public sector stakeholders at all levels in order to accomplish objectives.He has consulted for hundreds of start-up ventures and is the principal of Innovative Growth Advisors in addition to his duties as Dean of the Monfort College of Business at Northern Colorado UniversityDr. Colwell holds a PhD in strategic management from the University of Oregon and an MBA from San Francisco State University. He has taught strategic management, entrepreneurship, new venture planning, and entrepreneurial consulting at the undergraduate, graduate, and executive levels.

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