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Anonymous
Posted March 21, 2012
Entrepreneurs whose firms have moved beyond the exciting start-u
Entrepreneurs whose firms have moved beyond the exciting start-up phase must deal with the challenges and opportunities of business growth. Organizational strategy consultant Lisa Nirell spent seven years developing her “EnergizeGrowth” program, a strategic planning model for firms at this interim stage. Nirell explains how she used this system to increase her clients’ new business by millions of dollars. Consultants who become authors walk a fine line: When they use examples from their practices to illustrate their principles, they have to avoid overpromoting their firms, lest their books become lengthy commercials. Nirell achieves this difficult balance with grace. Despite a few writing glitches, such as a peppering of non sequiturs, getAbstract recommends her manual to entrepreneurs and CEOs with small or medium-sized firms who want to maximize growth, especially to those who plan to sell their firms once they are expanding profitably.
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DougKintzinger
Posted September 14, 2009
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WOW!
Lisa's book is an awesome step by step guide on how to grow your business, while growing as an individual. This book emphasizes the importance of "focus" when you are trying to grow your business. Lisa does a great job of explaining how to create a fun and vibrant business by focusing on vision, values, your customers, your team, and measuring your results and celebrating your successes. You will come away from reading this book truly "energized".
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Wisdom and Realism for entrepreneurs
At last a business coaching book that understands the challenges entrepreneurs face at various levels of their business growth and offers practical, realistic and challenging solutions to stimulate action and moving forward.
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Lisa Nirell has written from a point of experience and lessons learned, both in her own career and business as well as with the many small and mid-size clients she has worked with in building the businesses they want.
I loved that each chapter was full of logical steps to solve the various problems encountered - but there was also the mind set of reality checks and balances.
A massive proponent of delivering value based business and avoiding 'commodity mindset' the Chapters 7 & 8 about the 'Dashboard' are written around defining what stage of growth you are at and then defining the relevant measures are golden, and worth purchasing the book just for this wisdom.
But there is so much more. A surprise for me was that there is an Eastern philosophy theme that particularly comes thorugh in the chapter about your Wealth Quotient - sometimes its not about the revenues and the next $.
A well structured and thought through book, it can be easily read, but might take a little longer to master - definitely one that you will want to add to the bookshelf and return to on a regular basis - my pages are already marked and margins written in and will continue to be added to.
One piece I felt missing was a final summary chapter, but this does not detract from the book and there are also additional downloads and resources from her site www.energizegrowth.com that just add to the value.