"These tips are worth their weight in gold to businesses of all sizes." — Peter Jones , CBE, Entrepreneur and star of TV′s Dragon′s Den For any business, less really can be more. We all face new, austere times. Whether starting up, surviving or seeking to dominate its niche, every business needs to adjust. Based on years of real business experience, this book shows you how. From reinvigorating staff with Dunkirk spirit, to building revenues on a shoestring, this book tells you where to cut and where to keep spending. Packed with witty anecdotes, inspirational quotes and common sense advice, Austerity Business is a reinvigorating read for any business leader sworn down by daily bad news – the age of austerity really can be about thriving, not just surviving.
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‘…packed with advice and practical examples…’ (Business Management, June 2010). ‘ “What [Alex has] is…common sense and a great way with words, which together make for a highly readable book.” (BA Business Life, July 2010). ′He is clear: What we are experiencing is not a blip, but a fundamental change that requires a different mindset to be successful .′ (Bucks Herald, June, 2010). ‘ Packed with witty anecdotes, inspirational quotes and common sense advice on staff management …a reinvigorating read for business leaders.’ (OnRec.com, August 2010). ‘…this one packs a surprise…it’s neatly divided up into advice on attitude, people, customers and strategy.’ (HR, December 2010). ‘ This is an interesting book…thought–provoking nature makes it well worth reading.’ (SupplyManagement.com, January 2011). ‘… provides nuggets of wisdom that are both motivational and engaging.’ (Growingbusiness.co.uk, March 2011). ‘With so many anecdotes, quotes and common sense advice, Austerity Business is a reinvigorating read for business leaders.’ (Accountancy Ireland, June 2011).
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The recession is over but austerity will be with business for a decade. The public and private sector debts of western economies will be painfully clawed back, but business will not return to usual any time soon.
Doing more with less will become a defining success factor. Less capital, as wealth migrates east. Less debt, without abundant free flowing credit. Less labour as our populations age. Less energy as fossil fuels dwindle and environmental pressures intensify. Less freedom to operate as regulation intensifies. Less water and food as the world population burgeons. Less stability as reserve currencies continue to come under pressure and economic power shifts away from democracies.
For those who get out of the past first, face the truth early, and adjust the way they operate now, there has never been a better time to thrive and succeed. It will take a renewed focus on your own business essentials. These 39 tips will help you to do just that.
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By R. J. Newell
Format:Paperback
If you are planning to buy a book on running a successful business - or even if you are not - then make it this one.
`Unputdownable' is hardly an expression associated with books on business, but such a tag can be readily applied to this bite-sized compendium of down-to-earth advice on achieving success in austere times.
Make no mistake, this is not a book by some remote American business guru, or a self-congratulatory celebrity British business figure. The reader will find no `pontificating' here.
Conversely, it is a masterpiece of straightforward, practical, advice, from the coalface, written by the boss of a successful British business, who has clearly learned all of his lessons the hard way.
One of many reasons why this book is so very different to its genre is that the author, apart from building and running his own business, has also by spent much of his life learning about how other businesses work - or otherwise.
Quite apart from its concentration on success in difficult times, Austerity Business also tells us much about what is in store for the future of British business.
This book is long overdue on the business book scene. Its author has no need of the modesty that he shows in the book's introduction.
Austerity Business would terrific value at twice the price. Buy it and cherish it.
`Unputdownable' is hardly an expression associated with books on business, but such a tag can be readily applied to this bite-sized compendium of down-to-earth advice on achieving success in austere times.
Make no mistake, this is not a book by some remote American business guru, or a self-congratulatory celebrity British business figure. The reader will find no `pontificating' here.
Conversely, it is a masterpiece of straightforward, practical, advice, from the coalface, written by the boss of a successful British business, who has clearly learned all of his lessons the hard way.
One of many reasons why this book is so very different to its genre is that the author, apart from building and running his own business, has also by spent much of his life learning about how other businesses work - or otherwise.
Quite apart from its concentration on success in difficult times, Austerity Business also tells us much about what is in store for the future of British business.
This book is long overdue on the business book scene. Its author has no need of the modesty that he shows in the book's introduction.
Austerity Business would terrific value at twice the price. Buy it and cherish it.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
By Richard Carr
Format:Paperback
I Don't read much.... don't have the time... but I couldn't put this down. It is full of great, useful tips. Not like the usual 'Read my business book and you too could be as good as me' sort of rubbish. It tells you straight in a human and a light hearted way... Just what the recession ordered!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
By JDS Aston
Format:Paperback
39 insightful, hard hitting and immediately actionable business tips, which can make a difference to your business, as soon as you can put the book down. A very honest view of what it is like and how to run a business better, learning from pervious mistakes. Being split into 39 sections is an ideal format for re-reading or dipping in and out of during a busy day or business trip. One of the best investments of time and money that you will make in 2010.
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