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This 321-page book is a business Manual. It is the ultimate guide to starting a business the right way without the cost of a consultant or course fees. In 13 chapters, it describes what it takes to start and run a business successfully, including business idea conception, research, and strategic planning to create a vision of a business idea and generate strategies and initiatives to organize and plan the company. Planning entails developing ideas around the company’s interrelated components, including naming and registering the entity, creating operating facilities, administrative and financial management (control) structures, marketing and selling strategies, and hiring and managing employees. Reading this book saves you hours of research and loads of frustration in trial and error, saving thousands of dollars in expenses, smoothing the take-off, and generating early revenue from your business.
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Pages: 321
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This 241-page book is a handbook on Personal Financial and Retirement planning. It is the ultimate guide to planning your finances and retirement income correctly without the cost of a consultant or course fees. It contains detailed descriptions of what it takes to plan personal finances and lifestyle, including definitions, the purpose of planning, benefits of planning, saving and investing avenues, reasons for saving and investing, and how to save and invest. The book describes the process, which entails defining your current and retirement life's vision, setting goals, preparing a current spending and retirement living budget, identifying sources of income, the process of saving and investing and using the budgets to guide, monitor and control the process to arrive at desired goals. Reading this book saves you hours of research and loads of frustration in trial and error, saving thousands of dollars in expenses, smoothing the take-off, and generating early revenue to meet goals.
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Decline can be avoided. Decline can be detected. Decline can be reversed. Amidst the desolate landscape of fallen great companies, Jim Collins began to wonder: How do the mighty fall? Can decline be detected early and avoided? How far can a company fall before the path toward doom becomes inevitable and unshakable? How can companies reverse course? In How the Mighty Fall, Collins confronts these questions, offering leaders the well-founded hope that they can learn how to stave off decline and, if they find themselves falling, reverse their course.
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5. Pinnacle - People follow because of who you are and what you represent.
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