Stuck Entrepreneurs

Escape Routes Out of the Quicksand

Jay J. Silverberg

• Publisher: Business Expert Press
• Year: 2023
• ISBN:
  9781637424339
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Entrepreneurship
• Index: Business

Learn to Escape, Avoid or Sidestep Your Descent into the Quicksand

Stuck Entrepreneurs provides inventive strategies for the quicksand-mired businessperson who asks, what am I doing wrong? or how can I break this inertia and move my business forward?

The author delivers advice that is steeped in real-world experience gleaned from his own variety of business ventures and consulting practice, and packed with his entertaining business stories. Some are happy, others are, well, disturbing.

This book casts a wide target readership net; from wanna-be and early-stage entrepreneurs seeking a foothold for their ventures, to established businesses floundering in the paralysis of quicksand.

Further, in this post-pandemic economic environment, many entrepreneurs, managers and professionals are laboring to re-birth their businesses. This book will provide the counsel and energy to strategize that return journey.

Stuck Entrepreneurs is a combination business manual and a workbook. Each chapter includes a challenging, self-directed workbook that encourages the reader to learn through the author's own 'how to' or 'how not to' shared experiences.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Description
• Contents
• Prologue: Don’t Play Where You Don’t Belong
• Glossary of Terms
• The Stuck Entrepreneur’s School of Thinking
• What’s With This Quicksand Stuff?
• How Did You Even Wander Into the Quicksand?
• Hitting Closer to Home
• Dump That Nonperforming Albatross
• Does This Make Me Look Fat?
• Leaving Academia and Bumping Into the Real World
• Afraid of Success
• Using People and Being Used. It’s Not as Bad as It Sounds
• Be Selfish. Be Unapologetically Selfish
• Don’t Be a Sorrowful Entrepreneur
• Mama Told You That There Would Be Days Like These
• What If the Worst Happened? “So What” Planning
• Maybe You Just Went Into the Wrong Business?
• Don’t Be So Sensitive. Tough It Out, Snowflake!
• The Happiness Factor
• What to Do When Nobody Loves You
• What You Are Doing Today You May Not Be Doing Tomorrow
• Fear of Networking
• Guanxi—The Chinese Godfather of Swapping Favors (and Lies)
• Boot These Words and Phrases From Your Business-Speak
• Old Habits Unfortunately Die Hard
• Learn From My Mistakes
• Get Rid of the Guru, Keep the Mentor
• Bring Your Personality to the Table
• Don’t Be a Sheep
• Selective Empathy, Deliberate Deflection, and Elastic Imperatives
• Embellish Freely But Don’t Believe Your Own PR
• Pretending—The “Jekyll and Hyde” Syndrome
• Become the “Go To” and Milk It
• Useful (and Useless) Business Plans
• Do Your Homework. Then Do It Again
• You Always Need Money
• An NDA Is Not Your Savior. There’s Much Better Protection
• Go Extrovert Yourself
• Business Is Kind of Like Theatre But With Bigger Props
• Social Moodia Versus Social Media
• Befriend the Resolute Gatekeeper
• Is Your Integrity for Rent? Maybe No. Maybe Yes
• Marketing Ethics Are Also Elastic
• Brands Flourish, Commodities Flounder
• Solve Customers’ Problems, Not Yours
• Don’t Be Afraid to Ask
• Getting Out of a Malignant Partnership
• The Joy of Reframing
• A Quicksand Avoidance Technique
• More Personal Quicksand (Mis)Adventures
• About the Author
• Index