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Self-employment – as an alternative to working for a wage

My move to self-employment from working for a wage happened in September of 1985 – at age 51.   Through these past 27 years, I have worked with small, medium and large business; governments; statutory authorities; nonprofit organisations; peak bodies –

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Jean’s Core Business Strategy No. 9: Retrospective Planning

Retrospective planning ensures a solid basis for forward planning

Retrospective planning allows a degree of useful and objective observation, where the emotional component can be suspended: the future for your business may look uncertain, but you can be certain about …

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Jean’s Core Business Strategy No. 3: Performance Indicators, Measures and Targets

Always express your vision in practical terms – as ‘short-term achievable goals’ – with a set of annual performance indicators, measures and targets for each goal.

Each SME will have interesting and sometimes challenging decisions to make, and mostly these …

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Jean’s Core Business Strategy No. 2: The Art and Science of Business: ‘Critical Success Factors – Jean’s A-Z’

Don’t ignore clear and factual signs that your business is not healthy, or your product is missing the mark.

If your business or organisation is picking up clear and factual signs that all is not well, then you have urgent …

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One Man Show – the smallest of small business

One Man Show - Featuring the Authors and Shakespeares experiences as sole operators

One Man Show – Featuring the Author’s and Shakespeare’s experiences as sole operators

The smallest of small business – featuring the Author’s and Shakespeare’s experience as sole operators

A One Man Show is often referred to as a ‘micro-business’ – a term that emphasises the business rather than the person.

This book has four main sections, illustrated by events in both Shakespeare’s and Jean’s personal and business experiences as they persevered:

  • Setting out as a One Man Show
  • The Resource Base of a One Man Show
  • Two different – and useful – business life-cycles
  • Traffic lights for One Man Show business start-ups

Jean provides a lively and thought provoking study for any potential entrepreneur considering starting a micro enterprise. The ideas are original, creative, and well researched.

Roger Cook
Centre for International and Open Learning at the Thames Valley University, London.

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