by Priscilla Y. Huff (2007)
If you're an entrepreneur, or you're just thinking of starting a business, start with this smart, practical guide to small business success. It shows you how to maintain healthy growth and profits--no matter what kind of business you own--and helps you get the most out of your limited resources. Grow your business and get on the fast track to success.
Michael J. Marquardt and Peter Loan
Mentoring for corporate success -- New trends and issues in mentoring -- New roles and responsibilities for the mentor -- Values and skills of the mentor -- Part II -- Action plan, tools, and resources -- Assessing yourself as a mentor -- Developing an action plan -- Tools for developing and assisting the manager as mentor -- Resources for the manager as mentor.
Charles B. Carlson
Provides nine simple rules for successful investing, covering such topics as measuring volatility, investing "in the eye of the storm," and riding out turbulence through asset and time diversification.
Paul & Sarah Edwards
For the fastest-growing segment of our population, here is a comprehensive guide to starting and running a home-based business in midlife and retirement.A baby boomer turns fifty every seven seconds, creating what will soon be the largest and most influential senior generation in history. These dynamic seniors have both a desire and a need to continue their working lives past the age when their parents retired.Boomers have been the primary buyers of more than one million self-employment guides by Paul and Sarah Edwards-and they now have the perfect handbook to take them into the second half of life.The Best Home Businesses for People 50+ features seventy comprehensive profiles that show how to select, start, run, and build a home-based business suited to the needs, talents, and ideals of the over-fifty generation. Each business listing-for careers ranging in diversity from Makeup Artist to Tax Preparer to Information Broker-addresses the concerns of boomers and seniors, including:- Businesses that people 50+ can continue working in for 10-15 years.- Businesses that supplement your retirement income.- Businesses adaptable to a wide variety of locations.- Businesses with flexible hours to allow for family, travel, and other priorities.- Businesses suited to a broad range of health and wellness needs.Profiles of successful business owners and a treasury of online and easy-to-access resources round out The Best Home Businesses for People 50+ to create an indispensable resource for this new generation of career-oriented seniors.
Alan Dixie
As well as individuals setting up & running their own businesses, a growing number of larger firms are now moving towards a 'homeworking' culture, where employees spend part or all of their working week in a home-based office rather than occupying expensive & less flexible offices. This practical guide shows why.