Product Description
This title offers a fast track route to creating lasting business value through the entrepreneurial management of start-ups, buy-outs and corporate ventures. It covers the key areas of enterprise, from understanding entrepreneurial management and aligning the interests of investors and entrepreneurs to choosing your exit route and maximizing your return. It contains examples and lessons from some of the world's most enterprising companies, including Michael Bloomberg's recipe for selling your way to the top, Jurgen Klein's Jurlique and Sherry Leigh Coutou's Interactive Investor International. Plus, ideas from the smartest thinkers and practitioners, including Max Boisot, Neil Churchill, Peter Drucker, Josh Lerner, Will Schmidt and Howard Stevenson. It also includes a glossary of key concepts and a comprehensive resources guide.
From the Back Cover
ExpressExec is a unique business resource of one hundred books. These books present the best current thinking and span the entire range of contemporary business practice. Each book gives you the key concepts behind the subject and the techniques to implement the ideas effectively, together with lessons from benchmark companies and ideas from the world's smartest thinkers.
ExpressExec is organised into ten core subject areas making it easy to find the information you need: 01 Innovation 02 Enterprise 03 Strategy 04 Marketing 05 Finance 06 Operations and Technology 07 Organizations 08 Leading 09 People 10 Life and Work ExpressExec is a perfect learning solution for people who need to master the latest business thinking and practice quickly.
About the Author
NICHOLAS KING holds an MBA from INSEAD. He is a specialist in entrepreneurial management and organizational behavior and works as an independent business adviser to dynamic entrepreneurs. He has written for Computing, Management Consultancy and The Observer and is also the author of ExpressExec books on Exit Strategies and Corporate Venturing.
