June 1, 2010 | Author: Carl J. Schramm
In 2004, Carl Schramm, president of the Kauffman Foundation, the world’s leading foundation for entrepreneurship, published a groundbreaking essay with a radical premise: that Americans literally have no conception of the secret that truly underlies our economic success, and that for the United States to survive and continue to lead the world’s economy, it is imperative we learn to understand and employ that secret. The secret that has led the American economy to become the world’s strongest? Our unparalleled skill as entrepreneurs.
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April 28, 2010 | Author: Erik Wesner
The keys to better business from a thriving group of business owners—the Amish.
Business can be discouraging. According to US Department of Labor figures, only 44 percent of newly-opened firms will last four years. Amish firms, on the other hand, have registered a 95% survival rate over a five-year period. And in many cases, those businesses do remarkably well-as Donald Kraybill writes: “the phrase ‘Amish millionaire’ is no longer an oxymoron.” Success Made Simple is the first practical book of Amish business success principles for the non-Amish reader. The work provides a platform of transferable principles—simple and universal enough to be applied in the non-Amish world, in a wide variety of business and management settings.
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April 6, 2010 | Author: Bill Zeman
Architects, artists, ad agencies, designers, copywriters, indeed anyone who’s ever suffered the critiques of an exacting client or for that matter, any dad who’s ever tried to keep his daughter happy will find solace in Tiny Art Director. Based on the popular blog of the same name, Tiny Art Director chronicles toddler Rosie Zeman’s efforts to get some decent work out of her artist father, Bill.
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