Barclay The Unauthorized Guide To Doing Business the Duncan Bannatyne Way

10 Secrets of the Rags to Riches Dragon
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-85708-011-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 176 Seiten, E-Book

Straight-talking Dragons' Den star, Duncan Bannatyne,started it all with a single ice cream van and now manages aportfolio of leisure businesses and a high profile media career. Sohow did one of the UK's most successful serial entrepreneurs gofrom trouble-making schoolboy to OBE; from unemployment benefitclaimant to multi-millionaire?
The Unauthorized Guide to Doing Business the Duncan BannatuneWay draws out the universal lessons from Duncan Bannatyne'sremarkable success and identifies 10 strategies for running abusiness that can be applied to any business or career:
* Anyone can do it
* Know yourself and fill in the gaps
* The right ideas are everywhere you look
* Don't skimp on the research
* Plan your enterprise
* Never mind the atrium!
* Have the right people by your side
* Make money, expand rapidly, then make more money
* Put your name over the door
* Give it all away before you die
Want to be the best? The secrets of phenomenal success are inyour hands.
Check out the other Unauthorized Guides in this series:Richard Branson; Alan Sugar; Jamie Oliver;Bill Gates; and Philip Green.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Barclay, Liz

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements.
The Life and Times of Duncan Bannatyne.
One: Anyone Can Do It.
...As long as you're determined, work hard and takeresponsibility for your company.
Two: Know Yourself and Fill in the Gaps.
Do your SWOT test and build your business around your strengths.Employ people with the skills and attributes you'relacking.
Three: The Right Ideas Are Everywhere You Look.
Take the Government's shilling and build businesses theGovernment's paying for; there are advantages to red tape.Change brings opportunity to quick-thinking, fl exibleentrepreneurs.
Four: Don't Skimp on the Research.
From ice cream to hotels and fi tness centres, children'snurseries and radio stations - if you do your research right,you can make them all successful.
Five: Plan Your Enterprise.
From the back of the fag packet calculation to the big picture- plan, plan, plan.
Six: Never Mind the Atrium!
It's all about location, location, location. Build in the rightplace and use all your space eff ectively.
Seven: Have the Right People by Your Side.
Employ the right people - they're your key tosuccess. Pay bonuses, train good staff and promote internally, butabove all - learn to delegate.
Eight: Make Money, Expand Rapidly, Then Make MoreMoney.
A lot of nurturing and even more debt grows businesses. Borrowand make more money. Check out the competition and buy them out.Invest in other business ideas.
Nine: Put Your Name Over the Door.
It's your name on the line and you can't aff ord to get itwrong. Your brand and reputation keep the customers coming back,whether it's 99s or fi tness centres.
Ten: Give It All Away Before You Die.
Charity work and encouraging the next generation ofentrepreneurs.
Duncan Bannatyne and BBC's Dragons' Den.
Recession? What Recession?
The Last Word.
Notes.
Reading List.
Index.