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| The One Minute Entrepreneur: The Secret to Creating and Sustaining a Successful Business | 
 enlarge | Authors: Ken Blanchard, Don Hutson, Ethan Willis
Publisher: Doubleday Business
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  25 reviews
Sales Rank: 5559
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 160
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.8 x 0.7
ISBN: 0385526024
Dewey Decimal Number: 658.11
EAN: 9780385526029
ASIN: 0385526024
Publication Date: April 29, 2008
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Product Description
Mega-bestselling author Ken Blanchard and celebrated business leaders Don Hutson and Ethan Willis present an inspiring story that reveals the secrets to becoming a successful entrepreneur.
In THE ONE MINUTE ENTREPRENEUR, Ken Blanchard (coauthor of the #1 bestselling business classic The One Minute Manager), Don Hutson, CEO of U.S. Learning, and Ethan Willis, CEO of Prosper Learning, tell the inspiring story of one man’s challenges in creating his own business. Through a powerful and engaging narrative, we confront many of the typical problems all entrepreneurs face in starting up their business, from finding new sources of revenue to securing the commitment of their people and the loyalty of their customers. More important, we learn the secrets to becoming a successful entrepreneur, including how to build a firm foundation, how to ensure a steady cash flow, and how to create legendary service. In addition, the book offers invaluable advice, delivered through One Minute Insights, from such entrepreneurs and thinkers as Sheldon Bowles, Peter Drucker, Michael Gerber, and Charlie “Tremendous” Jones.
Today, in the midst of the largest entrepreneurial surge in U.S. history, four out of five small businesses continue to fail. THE ONE MINUTE ENTREPRENEUR offers businesspeople and would-be entrepreneurs a treasure trove of wisdom on how to think, act, and succeed in creating and sustaining a business, no matter what their industry.
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 Master Storyteller Makes it Memorable May 4, 2008
13 out of 16 found this review helpful
The One Minute Entrepreneur: The Secret to Creating and Sustaining a Successful Business works because Ken Blanchard is a master storyteller. The principles presented to become a successful entrepreneur are basic and pretty obvious: sales must exceed expenses, you must collect bills, take care of your customers, and take care of your employees.
Chances are, you already know this.
But the beauty of the book--indeed, what will probably make the book another classic--is that most of it is told in story form. Stories are more concrete than mere facts; we read a good story with strong imagery and feel the lessons being taught.
It is like very good fiction. Great fiction draws us into another world and we literally see and identify with the characters and plot. So it is with The One Minute Entrepreneur--the concepts that will make us successful entrepreneurs come alive when reading this little, but important , book.
By the author of the award winning book, Harmonious Environment: Beautify, Detoxify and Energize Your Life, Your Home and Your Planet
Superior advice May 1, 2008
7 out of 21 found this review helpful
The One Minute Entrepreneur isn't just for people who want to create a successful business, it's for people who want to create a successful person. I love the stories. Especially the one that explains that you are the average of the 5 people you most associate with. WOW! Words to live better.
 Weak May 17, 2008
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
The stories in this dreadful One Minute tome are told in a way that isn't realistic. People don't just don't speak like the characters in this weak, so-called helpful book for entrepreneurs do.
But nevermind that.
I read The One Minute Manager 14 years ago and I recall enjoying it and coming away with a couple of pointers. Maybe I was not only younger but more easily impressed then. If you must read this hokey book, and you find it as boring and unhelpful as I found it, then at least save yourself some time and skip to the end of each chapter where you'll find such gems of advice as "Ambition is the fuel that can drive life-changing events." Or, "If nobody will pay you to do what you love, you have a hobby, not a career." I kept waiting for there to be something better, but it didn't come.
Just watch the video above. I think it speaks for itself. The author's trying really hard to sell you on this unhelpful book.
This book is about Common Sense 101: work hard, keep the cash flowing, strive for balance in your life, and treat others with respect.
Maybe All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten would be more apt of a guide. I'd follow one point of advice from that book regarding 1-minute Entrepreneur:
Flush.
Inspiring One Minute Book May 3, 2008
6 out of 19 found this review helpful
This is an inspiring book on business and leadership. I also highly recommend Mitchell Ditkoff's "Awake at the Wheel" which gives fantastic exercises on generating new ideas and creating innovation. Awake at the Wheel: Getting Your Great Ideas Rolling (in an Uphill World)
Paving the road to independence one minute at a time! April 30, 2008
5 out of 12 found this review helpful
Each year thousands of small businesses start up for the first time. The sad thing is that most of them will end in failure. But that doesn't have to be you.
This book is expertly designed to assist entrepreneurs through the many challenges they will face throughout the process of starting and operating their own businesses.
The "One Minute" format brings it to you in easy to understand and digest segments. While at the same time, the authors are able to continually hold your interest through retelling of their own experiencing and the insights they have gained along the way.
I would highly recommend The One Minute Entrepreneur to any person thinking about, or already in the process of starting their own business.
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