A World of Opportunities for Aspiring Entrepreneurs: Creating your own job in the "new normal" - Softcover

Smogard, PhD, Greg

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0615709850 ISBN 13: 9780615709857

Publisher: 4catalysts consulting, 2013

Synopsis

Weak job growth, inadequate government action, corporate uncertainty, rapid global changes, disruptive innovation and dynamic entrepreneurs have contributed to a new normal in employment. In his inspirational and informative new book, A World of Opportunities for Aspiring Entrepreneurs, Greg Smogard, PhD, provides critical insight into how decades long, economic trends have contributed to the current uncertainty felt by many business owners, students, entrepreneurs, corporations, and the unemployed. Using a quick and easy to read format, Smogard highlights dozens of fascinating US and global trends to stimulate your thinking and to encourage a new wave of startups generated from the bottom up. Using research and his vast, business experience and unique perspective, he focuses on a wide range of challenges and opportunities that will appeal to a broad spectrum of readers. Interactive exercises at the end of each chapter also make this an excellent complementary book for classes, seminars or workshops on innovation, entrepreneurship and international business.

About this title

About the Author:

Greg Smogard, PhD, is founder and CEO of 4catalysts consulting. He spent much of his career as an international business executive working with global brands in over 40 countries. He is also an advisor to a private equity firm, an investor, a trend watcher and an entrepreneur. Mr. Smogard specializes in helping companies quickly improve their operations and increase their profits by enhancing relationships with customers, improving processes, launching new products and services, and identifying domestic and international business trends and opportunities. He has lived and traveled extensively abroad. He speaks Spanish fluently, and he and his family currently split their time between the Dallas-Fort Worth area and Palos Verdes, California.

About this edition

• Publisher: 4catalysts consulting
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0615709850
• ISBN 13: 9780615709857
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 214