Company Founders Reveal Secrets of Success
Book offers tips on building a flourishing business
Ted Landphair | Washington, D.C. May 16, 2011
'How They Did It,' by Robert Jordan
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'How They Did It,' by Robert Jordan
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The recent worldwide economic slowdown, plus some spectacular business failures and criminal scams, have made investors cautious. But every day, entrepreneurs still come up with new ideas that get funded, often with an infusion of money from speculative investors called “venture capitalists.”
Studies show that two-thirds of new businesses fail and disappear within 10 years. Yet there are countless stories of entrepreneurs who have come back from bankruptcy or worse, reinvented themselves, and reaped millions of dollars. For instance, New York tycoon Donald Trump, who’s rumored to be considering a run for president next year, lost a fortune in the casino business and made it back and more in real estate.
Author Robert Jordan
http://www.howtheydidit.comAuthor Robert Jordan
In a new book, called "How They Did It," Robert Jordan - who himself has launched and grown several companies - interviews 45 other successful company founders to learn their secrets of success.
All of them share one trait, Jordan says. It’s resilience. “These entrepreneurs all faced at least one crisis that should have stopped them in their tracks,” he writes. “Instead, they bounced back stronger, smarter, leaner, and meaner than before.”
How? Here are four tips from the book:
Don’t be embarrassed to hire people better than yourself.
Hire people who are nice, not just smart. “If you hire people who are smart but jerks,” one founder, Ronald Galowich, told Jordan, “they’ll just hire more smart jerks.”
Make your employees shareholders, Biomet executive Dane Miller suggests. “Give stock options to everyone at your company - all the way to the janitor. When employees have a sense of ownership, it creates a kind of self-enforcement process.”
When all else fails, just start over. “What doesn’t work, throw away,” Jordan writes. “And what does work, run with it.”
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17-05-2011 min (kor)
there are too many success stories, but, whenever i tried to read that kinds of books, i disappointed by normal plot.so,actually i wanna to read this book because i think its book would have some realistic stories.
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