Avoid The Pitfalls
That Many Entrepreneurs Make
When Running Their Businesses
Get the strategies necessary to launch, sustain,
and eventually exit your business, on YOUR terms.
What’s in the Book?
- How-to's for scenario planning, strategic planning, and exit planning.
- Tactics to create your ultimate owner experience, or B(O)x.
- Learn to chart value-added initiatives, future readiness, and resilience.
- Discover how you can build a company that is so much more than a job – using a dashboard of metrics that mean the most to YOUR business.
Author Wendy Dickinson applies her years of experience working with brilliant business owners using the wonderful fable, The Ant and the Grasshopper to uncover time-proven insights to entrepreneurs who want to be wildly successful AND happy.
This insightful book is filled with activities and practical tips for entrepreneurs to build an asset not just create a job.
Looking through the eyes of Ant and Grasshopper, two budding entrepreneurs, you will have the opportunity to avoid common pitfalls such as having a managerial mentality instead of a CEO mindset.
Avoid building a business dependent on the owner, failing to do relational due diligence when hiring friends and family, and don’t forget to prepare an exit plan. Work the Bugs Out will empower you to work the bugs out to build the business of your dreams.
About the Author
Wendy Dickinson is the founder of Ascend Coaching Solutions LLC, a coaching firm that specializes in working with business owners and executives who plan to expand their leadership capacity as their business grows. She is the expert Coach in Middle Market business culture, improving relationships to increase value and profits to potential investors, future prospects and strategic partners by implementing best practices in communication, culture creation and team building. Raised with small business in her blood, Wendy hails from a family of entrepreneurs. She is passionate about seeing businesspeople, who have spent their lives building their business, reap the rewards of their efforts.
Wendy holds a Master’s in Counselor Education from the University of Virginia, a bachelor’s degree from the University of Mary Washington, and certification from the International Coach Federation. Wendy brings her experiences as an individual and group therapist to every coaching relationship.
