Entrepreneur's Guide to Mastering the Inner World of Business

This practical book takes the entrepreneur past the business plan and into the toughest business game they'll ever face—self-management for daily and long-term success.

Focusing on the internal blocks, obstacles, and struggles all entrepreneurs face sooner or later, The Entrepreneur's Guide to Mastering the Inner World of Business shows how these unrecognized self-imposed barriers make it difficult to work at peak levels of performance. This guide will help readers explore perceptions of themselves, utilize leadership competencies, and identify weaknesses, frustration, and fears, managing each of these factors to enhance business growth and profitability, work performance, and a more satisfying life.

Each chapter of the book concentrates on a difficult, universal problem entrepreneurs may face, such as managing doubt, worry and indecision, remaining innovative even during stressful times, coping with loneliness, confronting overwhelming "busy-ness," discovering the meaning of success and managing it, climbing up from failure and despair, and knowing oneself. "Ask Yourself" questions help the reader identify the particular issue within him/herself. "Practices" suggest proven solutions for those issues based on those the author has taught to thousands of business leaders.

• Foreword by Marshall Goldsmith, bestselling author of What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People become More Successful and Mojo: How to Get It, How to Keep It, and How to Get It Back When You Lose It
• "Ask Yourself" questions and key "Practices" at the end of each chapter
• A summary of key points at the end of each chapter

Nanci Raphael is the founder of Leadership & Executive Development (www.keyleaders.com) and Voom Factor (www.voomfactor.com).