Bøger af Charlie Gilkey

Small businesses have much different growth patterns than large corporations. Small business owners who look to large corporations for insight and guidance on how to grow their own businesses often feel overwhelmed and demotivated. The Small Business Life Cycle lays out the five stages of small business growth and explains how you can navigate each stage in your business. To be successful, you have to take the right steps at the right time. Each stage has different challenges, strengths, inconvenient truths, and ways forward. This guide shows you where to focus your resources in each stage so you can grow your business efficiently. Whether you're thinking about starting a small business or you've been in business for a while, The Small Business Life Cycle will give you a better gauge to evaluate where you are and what you need to do next. If you're growing fast and want to keep growing, this book will show you how to do it strategically. And if you're stuck and don't know what to do, you can determine what stage your business is in now and figure out what you need to do next to get unstuck. This guide will specifically help you work through: Questions to ask before you start your own small business How to get a foothold in the market and why you should be marketing fewer things to fewer audiences Why some "successful" products and services will cause you to get stuck and lose momentum What four things must be in place to grow your business How not to break a successful, scalable small business once you've got it there This no-fluff guide will lay out the foundation upon which you can grow your small business. The only question left to answer is: what's your next action?

Small businesses have their own unique growth patterns. Each of the five stages of the small business life cycle has its own strengths, challenges, inconvenient truths, ways forward, and catalytic moments.

Too many people try to understand a team's performance by looking at its individuals, which wastes precious time, money, and talent. In TEAM HABITS, Charlie Gilkey, reveals how to improve any team's habits in a way that leads to bottom line, companywide results while also improving belonging, morale, and engagement.

A Productivity Workbook for Finishing Your Most Important ProjectsProductivity Meets Purpose in this workbook - get past busy work and embrace bringing your joyful, difference-making ideas to life.An easy-to-use, step-by-step guide that supplements Start Finishing with details, how-tos, scenarios, and tools to finish your most important projects. Whether your projects are work, personal, or some combination of the two, the Start Finishing Field Guide is your in-depth guide to doing what matters to you.Inside you'll find a host of companion exercises and worksheets that build upon the core principles in Start Finishing, like:- closing the gap between your day-to-day reality and your big goals- getting to your best work by choosing an idea that matters to you- converting your idea into a doable project- building your project roadmap- weaving your project into your schedule- finishing strongThe field guide was written to stand alone or to supplement Start Finishing. Grab your pencil, flip open this book and dig into this step-by-step process for choosing, planning, and - most importantly - finishing your best-work projects.With original illustrations by Cristina Kramp.¿¿Start Finishing and the Start Finishing Field Guide connect you with a worldwide community celebrating the completion of their projects and connecting with each other via meetups, virtual Q&As, and more.

Productivity Meets Purpose-Start Finishing the Work That Matters Most.How much of your time and attention lately has been focused on things that truly matter to you? Most people's honest answer is: not enough.The joy-producing, difference-making ideas are always waiting-for when the time is right, when the current project is over, when there is a little more money. Those ideas are waiting for someday. The trouble is someday never comes on its own.Start Finishing provides a system for transforming your ideas into projects and shows you how to address the challenges you face by giving each project the time, energy, and attention it needs.The book will teach you how to:. Engage the Five Projects Rule to prioritize your daily schedule and be at peace with the work you choose not to do . Fly through drag points-how to deal with head trash, no-win scenarios, and other people's priorities. Overcome cascades, logjams, and tarpits-the three ways projects routinely get stuck. Chunk, link, and sequence your ideas down to doable parts. Heatmap your schedule so you do the right work at the right time. Build your success pack of supporters, guides, peers, and beneficiaries . Finish strong-celebrate, review, and ride the momentum to your next goal Start finishing your best work and create your future, one completed project at a time.Start Finishing received critical acclaim from Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Review, and awards with Independent Book Awards. It also won the cross-category Grand Prize from the esteemed Eric Hoffer Book Award in 2020.* Includes original contributions from Seth Godin, Susan Piver, Jonathan Fields, James Clear, and many other teachers.