Title: Boss It by Carl Reader
Personal rating: 10/10
Reason to Read: If you are a small business owner, this book is invaluable. It doesn’t matter if you are brand new to business, or if you have been in business for some time, this book has practical and useful information that you cannot afford not to have!
Ease of read: 10/10
What is it about?
This is not a book, it’s a guide. Carl Reader provides an easy-to-read, easy-to implement, no frills practical handbook to opening, running, growing and selling a business.
Starting with your mindset and motivations and then moving on to the entire business life cycle – from idea to sale. This book will help you develop clarity regarding your business ideas and vision, then it will help you practically create your systems and processes. It moves on to amazing advice regarding business growth and the all-important subject of building the right team and how to lead them.
Carl provides practical steps, real case studies and a huge amount of inspiration for any business owner.
Biggest take-aways:
Carl takes you through five stages of business
- Dream it
- Plan it
- Do it
- Scale it
- Sell it
The practical, no-nonsense approach is refreshing and makes each step of building a business easy to understand and implement.
This is a must-read for all business owners, but especially those just starting out!
