Breakpoints: How to Shift Your Business to the Next Level - Softcover

Ashby, Mike

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0730326624 ISBN 13: 9780730326625

Publisher: Wiley, 2016

Synopsis

Find your drive and redefine your business priorities

Breakpoints is the business owner's guide to regaining your passion and driving your business forward. If you're feeling stuck, stale or stalled, this book is your ticket out of the rut and into profitable growth. You'll learn the 7 Mistakes Business Owners Make, and identify the choices, behaviours and practices that are keeping your business in a holding pattern. Practical formulas, frameworks, strategies and tools get you started right away on refocusing and reprioritising, and taking back your life. Coverage includes both hard and soft topics that business owners frequently struggle to master, along with expert insight on execution and what lies beyond success. Written simply and directly, without jargon or acronyms, this no-nonsense guide is designed to be easy to read and easy to apply so you can get back to work quickly, inspired with a whole new outlook and equipped with practical tools to improve your business. Written in a style that is both conversational and entertaining, author Dr Mike Ashby offers numerous anecdotes and analogies drawn from working with hundreds of business owners.

Owning a business can be exciting and terrifying at the same time. There's too much to do, and all accountability leads to you. If you've gotten hung up in the day-to-day running of your business, this book helps you regain sight of the big picture and get back on track to success.

• Learn what's holding you back from business success
• Adopt the tools and practices that end the stalemate and get things done
• Find clarity and focus, and reconnect with your business
• Leverage your strengths to achieve personal and business growth

Business owners need to be well-versed in both strategy and execution. If you feel like you and your business have reached a plateau, Breakpoints will reignite the spark that drives business success.

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From the Back Cover

Your Business Won't Change Until You Do

Has your business stalled, got stuck or gone stale? Do you want more life and more profit? This book shows you that the best way to grow your business and reach the next level of performance is to first grow yourself.

Breakpoints shines a light on the common mistakes made by business owners and offers simple, practical and manageable solutions to break free of your constraints, and achieve a game-changing leap to the next level in your life and your business. Through his proven insights, Dr Mike Ashby will help you achieve best-ever results in all aspects of your business.

Packed with proven ideas, real-life examples and easy-to-use tools, this no-nonsense guide will reveal how to:

• recapture your energy and drive
• remove the clutter and reclaim the time to grow your business
• energise your business by defining your vision and purpose
• build a loyal team that wants to work with you, not for you.

With no jargon, only two acronyms and plenty of humour, Breakpoints will give you the courage to play a bigger game.

About the Author

DR MIKE ASHBY is the Founder and Director of The Breakthrough Company. He is a sought after business speaker, industry thought leader and adviser who has run development programs for business owners for over 10 years. His vast experience and his authentic voice make him one of Australasia's foremost authorities to business owners.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0730326624
• ISBN 13: 9780730326625
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288