Entrepreneurship

You’re not going to do it anymore. You’re not going to haul your carcass out of bed at 5 o’dark in the morning, throw down some coffee and dash out the door so you can make it look like you slept at your desk.

I was attracted to read Super Business: How I started SuperJam from my Gran’s Kitchen by Fraser Doherty for a number of reasons. First the author is a young, and I mean young, successful entrepreneur, who started his business at just 14. Second he’s from Edinburgh, my home town and third, he, like many women within Company of Women, started a food business from his home kitchen. I was curious how he’d achieved such rapid success.

When you meet Anne Day in the first chapter, you build a quick and instant rapport with her. She exposes herself as a warm woman of strength and vulnerability and we are drawn into the honesty of her story. Day by Day is an appropriate title as it is an account of the author’s experiences, much like a journal. There is no chronological order, rather each section addresses a commonality of challenges encountered by women in their everyday lives, addressing a wide scope of topics that consistently bring us back to how we can live our dreams and have balance.

These days, it’s a battle to stay in business. From your command post at HQ, you see the daily skirmish as your employees go hand-to-hand with the competition. Sometimes they capture new clients and other times, they’re just not strong enough to withstand other forces. Top brass would love to have your people win, but the troops are getting tired and morale is low. Should you deploy more people, or stay the course? In the new book Army of Entrepreneurs by Jennifer Prosek, you’ll learn a whole new way of doing battle in business, and this one may win the war.

Why do some ideas thrive while others die? And how do you improve your chances of worthy ideas? In Made to Stick, Chip and Dan Heath tackle head-on these vexing questions. The brothers Heath reveal the anatomy of ideas that stick and explain ways to make ideas stickier. This book that will transform the way you communicate ideas. Proactive, eye opening and often funny, the book shows us the vital principals of winning ideas – and tells us...