Your shoes are charred from stomping out brush fires. You have nightmares about UFOs—Unreachable Financial Objectives. All-star interviewees turn into duds. Meetings cause more problems than they solve. The office is a ghost town at 5:01 p.m. Does this sound familiar? 
Tom Gegax knows what that is like. Years after running his Tires Plus franchise by the seat of his pants, blissfully unaware of how little he knew about getting the most out of people and managing a world-class organization, Tom was faced with a cancer diagnosis and a business at the brink of disaster. Resolved to change things around, he improved his mental clarity, health, and relationships and noticed that the more he profited on a personal level, the more his company profited. Tires Plus grew into a $200 million business with 150 upscale locations. He had learned the first lesson in Enlightened Leadership 101: Focus on the well-being of your employees and customers—as well as your own—and success will follow naturally.
In The Big Book of Small Business, Tom shares his hard-earned lessons on how to become an enlightened, effective leader, and on how to do the small things right so the big decisions work. This all-in-one toolbox for small businesses is jammed with warm-hearted, tough-minded practices and street-smart tips, covering every aspect of a growing business: 
<ul>
<li>Starting, funding, and getting your new business off the ground</li>
<li>Crafting a mission and growing a corporate culture that works</li>
<li>Hiring the best people and maximizing their potential</li>
<li>Communicating and negotiating with your employees, customers, and suppliers</li>
<li>Creating processes for continuous innovation and growth</li>
<li>Protecting your business from unforeseen dangers</li>
<li>Planning for growth </li>
<li>And much more . . .</li>
</ul>
As thorough as a textbook and as lively as a news magazine, The Big Book of Small Business is the most comprehensive and practical book on how to take a small business to the next level, and an indispensable slingshot for the millions of scrappy Davids taking on corporate Goliaths.

The Big Book of Small Business: You Don't Have to Run Your Business by the Seat of Your Pants

Business & Money

Gegax, Tom

Bolsta, Phil.

Job Hunting & Careers

Harper Business

Read by the Author 2 cassettes / 3 hours "Tom Gegax has a particular talent for making real what others can only imagine." --Deepak Chopra Hungry for a different kind of winning? According to entrepreneur Tom Gegax, in the game of life, effective self-coaching is the first step to success that encompasses every aspect of life. Gegax should know, he thought he had it all until a three-ring wake-up call of divorce, cancer, and a business in crisis changed his game forever. Through a self-designed program of personal and professional evolution, Gegax recovered and now enjoys a life rich with family, friends, peak health, and a thriving company. Winning in the Game of Life, Gegax's integrated plan, merges the lessons of home and work into lessons of life. This unified approach helps you identify your purpose in life--your guiding mission--and teaches you the strategies that put it in play, including the Seven Take-Action Steps. Strategies for effective communication, better organization, and time competency smooth the way. Self-coaching plans for real wellness of body, intellect, psyche, and spirit plus ten lessons to ensure lifetime learning help keep you on a winning track. Integrating the best of Western business models, mind-body techniques, and spiritual wisdom, Gegax's comprehensive game plan will awaken your true potential and dismantle barriers to a fuller life.

Winning in the Game of Life: Self-Coaching Secrets for Success

Business Culture

Random House Audio |

Hungry for a different kind of winning? According to entrepreneur Tom Gegax, in the game of life, effective self-coaching is the first step to success that encompasses every aspect of life. Gegax should know; he thought he had it all until a three-ring wake-up call of divorce, cancer, and a business in crisis changed his game forever. Through a self-designed program of personal and professional evolution, Gegax recovered and now enjoys a life rich with family, friends, peak health, and a thriving company. Winning in the Game of Life, Gegax's integrated plan, merges the lessons of home and work into lessons of life. This unified approach helps you identify your purpose in life -- your guiding mission -- and teaches you the strategies that put it in play, including the Seven Take-Action Steps. Strategies for effective communication, better organization, and time competency smooth the way. Self-coaching plans for real wellness of body, intellect, psyche, and spirit plus ten lessons to ensure lifetime learning help keep you on a winning track. Integrating the best of Western business models, mind-body techniques, and spiritual wisdom, Gegax's comprehensive game plan will dismantle barriers to a fuller life and awaken your true potential.

Harmony

A glaring hole in the business bookshelf is finally filled. Until now, there wasn't a fingertip resource for handling everything that the business day throws at you. Enter Tom Gegax's By The Seat Of Your Pants, a soup-to-nuts management guide that stands in stark contrast to the rows of magic-bullet books that promise overnight prosperity. 
Visionaries like Best Buy founder and chairman Richard Schulze, One Minute Manager author Ken Blanchard and mind-body pioneer Deepak Chopra are lining up behind Gegax. They know that By The Seat Of Your Pants charts a new course, combining hard-nosed accountability and efficiency (profits first) with an enlightened approach (people first) in one practical package that honors both. After all, it's leaders who are tough-minded and warm-hearted that wind up leading happy people producing healthy profits. 
As thorough as a textbook, as lively as a newsmagazine, By The Seat Of Your Pants is an indispensable slingshot for the millions of scrappy Davids taking on corporate Goliaths. It doesn't propose drawing-board theories that should work; it's jammed with real-world practices that do work. Its street-smart tips and techniques connect the dots between every aspect of business in unprecedented detail. 
By The Seat Of Your Pants was already a best-seller before it hit bookstores—thanks to advance bulk orders from dozens of businesses and associations. One retail giant ordered 55,000 copies (three tractor-trailers worth) to give to its small business customers. 
Why is this book striking such a chord with CEOs and entrepreneurs across the country? Order your copy today and find out.

By the Seat of Your Pants: The No-Nonsense Business Management Guide

Phil Bolsta

Management & Leadership

Expert Pub Inc

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