Audiobooks Narrated by Clyde Jeremy

Enterprise in Action: A Guide To Entrepreneurship

This is a cross-over book with appeal to business people interested in what makes entrepreneurs succeed (because of its practical guidelines and real-world stories), combined with clear usefulness as a study guide (because of its comprehensive coverage of the key issues, with study exercises).  The scope of the book covers distinctive questions in entrepreneurship, such as what gives rise to entrepreneurial opportunity;   how to exploit trends;  what is the role of innovation / originality; what is execution / implementation, and s role in business success;  what do established SMEs do to survive in the middle term?   This is a book especially useful for the MBA and professional market.  It assumes a level of interest and engagement, but gives clear accounts of concepts and processes so that anyone can come on board.   This market does not require a textbook of the traditional kind that seeks to give an even handed exposition of all relevant material.  The need is rather for something that is more selective, more purposeful and even more inspirational.   Above all it needs to contain a plausible action sequence.  The present book does this, implicitly through the chapters and explicitly in the last chapter.   The scope of this book is to concentrate on some key issues: What gives rise to entrepreneurial opportunity? How it is possible to exploit trends, and what are these trends? What is the role of innovation/originality? How do companies get started and become self-sustaining? What is execution, does it differ from implementation, and what is its role in business success? What do established SMEs (small and medium sized companies) do to survive in the middle term, and even across family generations? The aim is to raise understanding of these issues by working through a variety of examples, mainly from smaller and/or newer companies in Britain and the USA.  Further, to generalise from these companies I have researched.  To emphasize throughout the positioning and behaviour likely to lead to success.   The book raises understanding of these issues by working through a variety of examples from USA, Britain and Europe.  It shows the dynamics of enterprise creation and its development over time, flagging up what seems to work and favour success.   Each chapter ends with a set of examples and exercises for the student. The book ends with a glossary of terms and as it unfolds the book has a clear sequence of (10) actions or steps that characterize the successful .small business.   TOC Patterns in Entrepreneurial Opportunity Something New Reconfiguration Riding Trends Biography and Capability Take Off to Cruising Altitude Entry Barriers A New Life, A Longer Life Industry Dynamics Patterns of Development Chain Reactions

Peter A. Lawrence (Author), Clyde Jeremy (Narrator)

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What's Stopping You? Being More Confident: Why Smart People Can Lack Confidence and What You Can Do

Confidence is not like an immunization jab. Its not something that can simply be injected into us through motivational exercises and positive thinking. Confidence comes almost exclusively from experience and self-knowledge.  Millions of smart people are held back by a lack of this self-knowledge and unwittingly generate the kind of self-reinforcing behaviour that leads to low confidence. In the follow-up to the groundbreaking bestseller, Whats Stopping You?, with his very British approach to self-help, Robert Kelsey draws on extensive research and personal experience to provide a road map to help break down the barriers that make us shy away from achieving our true potential. Whats Stopping YouBeing More Confident? is aimed at helping to highlight the key reasons why you might be lacking confidence in the first place, what causes self-doubt or makes you feel less able than others.  Then we are shown how to turn this around, by examining the traits that make someone confident, developing tactics for maintaining self-assurance and learning how to apply these in real-life practical situations. Confidence is about knowing what were good at, but also realizing what were not good at. Once we have come to understand and accept this, we can truly learn how to develop and sustain true confidence. Introduction   Part One Explaining Poor Confidence 1 Scripts 2 Mindset 3 Reactions 4 The Journey Part Two The Alchemy of Confidence 5 Optimism and Resilience 6 Self-efficacy and Talent 7 Courage and Extraversion 8 Trust and Judgement Part Three Achievement 9 Identity 10 Goals 11 The Plan Part Four Situations 12 Shyness 13 Work One: Us 14 Work Two: Them 15 Dating Part Five Barriers 16 Prejudice 17 Procrastination 18 Depression 19 Stress and Anxiety 20 Hubris Additional Material: What the Psychologists Say

Robert Kelsey (Author), Clyde Jeremy (Narrator)

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