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The Lean Startup presents a systematic, scientific approach for creating and managing successful startups in uncertain environments, emphasizing rapid experimentation, customer feedback, and iterative product development.

Clayton Christensen explains why leading firms can fail when they follow the right strategy, and offers rules for exploiting disruptive innovation to avoid losing market leadership.

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Built to Last presents a research‑based blueprint for creating enduring, high‑performing companies, debunking myths about charismatic leaders and offering practical guidelines grounded in case studies of sixty‑four century‑old firms.

Creative Confidence shows how every person can unlock and apply their creative potential in business and everyday life, using insights and examples from IDEO’s design practice.

The bestselling author of phenomenally successful and continually vital The E-Myth Revisited presents the next big step in entrepreneurial management and leadership with E-Myth Mastery.A practical, real-world program that is implemented real-time into your business, Gerber begins by engaging the reader in understanding why the entrepreneur is so critical to the success of any enterprise, no matter how small or large it may be, and why the mindset of an entrepreneur is so integral to the operating reality of the organization, of the small business, and the enterprise. He then covers seven essential skills:- Leadership- Marketing- Money- Management- Lead Conversion- Lead Generation- Client FulfilmentEach of these seven skills is presented through a specific training module with corresponding tests and exercises that explain the content and principles to be learned, provide case studies and examples, as well as worksheets for applying those ideas to the business. Gerber ties it all together by helping readers put the pieces together in an E-Myth Business, an E-Myth Practice and an E-Myth Enterprise.This is the book that will show you the difference between being an entrepreneur versus doing a job, how to get money when the bank won't give it to you, how to expand your customer base when big business moves in down the street, how to develop the best people when you can't afford to pay them competitive wages, how to increase the predictability of what your business is able to promise, and then how to keep that promise, every single time, no matter where you are or what you're doing.Mastery is a business development program that helps you turn your company into a world-class operation...into a turn-key money machine!

The book will help you understand the patterns of great value propositions, get closer to customers, and avoid wasting time with ideas that won't work. You'll learn the simple but comprehensive process of designing and testing value propositions, taking the guesswork out of creating products and services that perfectly match customers' needs and desires. Practical exercises, illustrations and tools help you immediately improve your product, service, or new business idea. In addition the book gives you exclusive access to an online companion on Strategyzer.com.