Build Without Funding Scale With Intention The Bootstrapper S Blueprint To Success

Build Without Funding, Scale with Intention: The Bootstrapper’s Blueprint to Success

Starting a business with limited resources can seem daunting, but it’s entirely possible to build and scale a profitable company without outside funding. Build Without Funding, Scale with Intention is the ultimate guide for bootstrapping your business, showing you how to grow steadily, reduce reliance on investors, and maintain full control over your company. This book walks you through the process of starting and growing a business with limited capital, offering strategies for minimizing costs, maximizing cash flow, and leveraging available resources. You’ll learn how to prioritize high-impact activities, build a lean operation, and fund your business with profits rather than external investment. The book also covers how to find creative solutions to common challenges faced by bootstrappers, such as marketing and product development. If you’re committed to building a business on your own terms, Build Without Funding, Scale with Intention provides you with the roadmap for success while maintaining control and minimizing risk.

The Friction Project

The definitive guide to eliminating the forces that make it harder, more complicated, or downright impossible to get things done in organizations. Find out why Adam Grant says "If every leader took the ideas in this book seriously, the world would be a less miserable, more productive place." Every organization is plagued by destructive friction. Yet some forms of friction are incredibly useful, and leaders who attempt to improve workplace efficiency often make things even worse. Drawing from seven years of hands-on research, The Friction Project by bestselling authors Robert I. Sutton and Huggy Rao teaches readers how to become “friction fixers.” Sutton and Rao kick off the book by unpacking how skilled friction fixers think and act like trustees of others’ time. They provide friction forensics to help readers identify where to avert and repair bad organizational friction and where to maintain and inject good friction. Then their help pyramid shows how friction fixers do their work, from reframing friction troubles they can’t fix right now, so they feel less threatening, to designing and repairing organizations. The heart of the book digs into the causes and solutions for five of the most common and damaging friction troubles: oblivious leaders, addition sickness, broken connections, jargon monoxide, and fast and frenzied people and teams. Sound familiar? Sutton and Rao are here to help. They wrap things up with lessons for leading your own friction project, including linking little things to big things; the power of civility, caring, and love for propelling designs and repairs; and embracing the mess that is an inevitable part of the process (while still trying to clean it up).

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