Bounce!: Failure, Resiliency, and Confidence to Achieve Your Next Great Success (Hardcover)

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Conventional business wisdom tells you that there’s always something to learn from failure. Not true, says Barry Moltz. Sometimes, failure just stinks. Bounce! explains how success and failure are simply normal outcomes in the regular lifecycle of a business and that process over the long term matters far more than individual outcomes. This book shows you how to build a business that can “bounce” through these cycles for long-term success. If you run a business, better make it Bounce!

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Bounce! is about developing confidence, but not just any sort of confidence. It's about developing the kind of true business confidence that prepares you for both failure and success.

But this is not a book about coming back from failure.

Comeback books have been written many times before. The comeback is romanticized in society and totally overrated. In Bounce!, you'll learn about accepting failure as a normal part of the process even when there isn't something to learn from it. Failure that offers no real learning value jolts the business belief system.

In Bounce!, entrepreneur and business owner Barry Moltz explains that both success and failure are simply outcomes in the normal life cycle of business—a life cycle in which overall process matters far more than any single event or outcome. Great businesses are those that develop the resiliency to bounce through these cycles to succeed over the long term. Using a blend of personal experience and firsthand interviews with business leaders, Moltz shares the practical tools and techniques that every business needs to survive the cycle of ups and downs. In Bounce!, you'll learn the "building bands" for true business confidence, including:

• Using humility to "right size" your ego

• Making fear fly in formation

• Using choices to embrace failure when it happens

• The art of more effective risk-taking

• How process trumps outcome

• Setting patient goals to establish your own scorecard

• Creating your own brand of success

Bounce! lets you move forward from any event, situation, or outcome—good or bad—to the next place where a decision can be made based on the choices currently available to you. Bounce! allows us to be passionately excited and intensely enthusiastic about our business and our lives.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Wiley (January 28, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470224088
• ISBN-13: 978-0470224083
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #468,021 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Must Read!, January 30, 2008

By	M. Harleman "Condor" (PA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

"Bounce" contains something many business books (and I've read hundreds) do not. Wisdom. As you read "Bounce", you will realize the author has, indeed, been 'in the trenches', and has a great deal of wisdom to share with you. On more that one occassion, you will have the 'ah-ha' moment of recognition where this crazy world of entrepreneurship comes together.
Don't think for a moment, however, that this is a dry, B-school tome. The author is funny and charming and the examples he uses are both entertaining and interesting. He will motivate, inspire, help you develop a plan of action, and give you the confidence to move forward.
"Bounce" will become a valuable resource, and even though the author titled the final chapter "Read This Book-Then Throw It Away", it will remain on your desk (as it is on mine) for future reference for a long, long, time.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Barry Moltz has done it again., February 19, 2008

By	T. O'Brien (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The perspective that Mr. Moltz presents is one that most Type "A"s can't comprehend; coping with failure. This book was an exceptional read for me since I am currently going through a career transition. While changing careers is not as frightening as starting a business, there are numerous parallels; from determining what success means to you to knowing if it is time to accept that your current career is not right.

I would recommend this book to anyone that has ever heard "It is alright to make mistakes as long as you learn from them" and have not believed a word. Mistakes happen and learning to bounce back from them is the real challenge.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Bounce review, February 22, 2008

By	M. Vozikis (Fresno, CA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Great book, and great confirmation that you only learn from failure and you emerge/bounce from it stronger, wiser, and more resilient. As a matter of fact as an educator, I do not wish my students success, but rather resilience so they can make their bounces easier and faster.
Again, great book!