This revolutionary business guide explains how the power of entrepreneurship can be harnessed by individuals, organizations, and entire countries to compete and thrive in the 21st century. Examining the four fundamental practices of the world’s great entrepreneurs, the author provides simple and proven strategies for creating and implementing business plans on all levels, from the mission statement to day-to-day organization practices. The book gives timely advice not only to individual entrepreneurs, but also explains how entrepreneurial culture can be developed and fostered in corporate and governmental settings. Chapters show decision-makers ways to facilitate high-speed innovation, free the genius of the average worker, translate job satisfaction into high-quality production, and cultivate customer satisfaction and loyalty.
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Larry Farrell is the founder and chief executive officer of The Farrell Company, the world's leading firm for researching and teaching entrepreneurial practices. The firm has affiliates in twenty countries covering Asia, Europe, Latin America, and Africa, with clients ranging from corporations such as Sun Microsystems, Citibank, Coca-Cola, DHL, Toyota, Matshusita, Unilever, and Business Week, to governments including China, Brazil, Malaysia, and South Africa. Clients in 25 countries are using his Spirit of Enterprise seminars and training projects across six languages. A former president of the worldwide consulting and training firm, Kepner-Tregoe, Farrell is the author of Searching for the Spirit of Enterprise (1994), now translated in seven languages and established as an international authority on entrepreneurship and high growth companies. Currently Farrell serves on the boards of think tanks and journals including the Economic Development Society and The Journal of Strategic Change. He lives in Staunton, Virginia.
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competitive position quadrant, entrepreneurial basics, more entrepreneurial economy, entrepreneurial age, prosperity cycle, entrepreneurial commitment, inventing products, entrepreneurial practices, poor forever, great entrepreneurs, corporate entrepreneurship Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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