Authorpreneur Dashboard – Scott Anthony Ward
PhD in Leadership
Business & Investing
If you listen to a lot of business leaders, they'll tell you that your competitive advantage is based on your product and service. They're wrong. A competitive advantage doesn't even happen with the kinds of people you hire. As a leader, you need to focus on the way your organization operates: the culture, collaboration and systems thinking. These aspects bring you a competitive advantage that no one else can copy. In this short book, based on successful workshops for corporate leaders, you'll learn how to create employee engagement and alignment.
Book Bubbles from PhD in Leadership
Early Leadership Lessons
I was fortunate that one of my first jobs was working within an organization that practiced good leadership. The first real leader I encountered wasn't afraid of questions, comments or complaints. That's what I tell every new staff team and individual that works for me. I'm only afraid of silence because I don't know if they agree or not.
Servant Leadership Practice
Business & Investing
Servant Leadership is getting the most out of you and your team. Concisely, it can summed up with the leader asking a staff person, "How can I help you or hinder you less?" Most writings about Servant Leadership deal with a leader's character. This book gives practical examples and encouragement to implement some of the principles. Sometimes taking examples from the business headlines, there are 40 essays that could be read and acted upon each day for eight weeks. In that time, you will be a different kind of leader. Your organization will be changed also into a group that will be poised to do great things. The second edition expands on servant leadership by considering being a courageous follower. Since we all work for someone else, there's an additional article about dealing with a toxic leader as you try to be a servant leader. If you want to create a place where people want to be at work, read this book. In addition, each essay has a scriptural extra. The author has tapped into a biblical principle, example or commentary on the character traits.
Book Bubbles from Servant Leadership Practice
To See Change, Be Change
I'm sure someone else has already said something like the above, but it works well to describe the thesis. Too often we think our organization will only get better if They change. What I've learned in more than 30 years in the business world is that I can create change by changing how I do things, the questions I ask, the way I respond, the way I empower and so on. We are not powerless to see the change we desire. This book challenges you to take simple actions for 40 days, a different suggestion each day, and start to experience and work within the organization that's fun and alive.
Quick and Easy Business Plan
Business & Investing
Many people want to be their own boss. Some even start businesses and then run into problems. This short-version business plan will help you avoid many of the pitfalls that befall entrepreneurs and small business owners. The author has seen the successes and the losses of many small businesses. Based on this experience, he's boiled down the key points to a dozen critical questions that need to be answered.
Book Bubbles from Quick and Easy Business Plan
Different Aspects of the Business
I've learned the hard way by investing in a business that spent all its money in the first 90 days and then didn't have anything left for future supplies until the first customer payments arrived. It went bankrupt pretty quickly. Likewise, another business moving manufacturing overseas didn't evaluate the risk and the extra cash involved; it too went out of business quickly. The book looks at customers, competitors, cash flow and other aspects for the budding business owner.
