{"product_id":"build-a-business-not-a-job","title":"Build a Business, Not a Job","description":"Build an Owner-Independent Company and Get Your Life Back!\nAccording to the Wells Fargo\/Gallup Small Business Index, the average small business owner works 52 hours a week, with more than 20 percent working seven days a week. The U.S. Census Bureau says 88.6 percent of all U.S.-based companies still require the owner to be there as the primary person responsible for core functions like producing their product or service, managing the day-to-day operations, or managing the financial aspects of the business.\nIf you're a business owner who wants to accelerate your company's growth, but do it in a way that enables you to get your life back, this book is for you.\nJoin Wall Street Journal best-selling author David Finkel and former chairperson of the National Association of Manufacturers Stephanie Harkness as they give you a concrete, step-by-step map to empower you to build an owner-independent company and get your life back.\nYou'll Learn:\n- The only sustainable way to escape the Self-Employment Trap™\n- The 4 most costly excuses that hold business owners back\n- The 8 essential building blocks upon which to scale your company\n- 25 formats to package your business systems\n- A powerful 1-page quarterly action plan format\n- 6 time mastery strategies to free up a full day each week to build your business\n- How a skilled surgeon tamed his medical practice not by working more, but rather by working less and empowering his systems, team, and culture to do more\n- How a contractor escaped the 70-hour-a-week trap, doubled his sales, and cut his work hours in half (and how you can too)\n- How a second-generation manufacturer took over his family business and brought it from the brink of failure to record profits\n- How a niche software company owner grew her company's market value tenfold, while at the same time enjoying a greater sense of time freedom than she ever thought possible\n- And much more ...\nThese two world-class entrepreneurs will show you how to sustainably grow your company, increase your profitability, and enjoy more time freedom. You will learn how to truly build a business, not a job.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0692895833\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.0692895833.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Stephanie Harkness|David Finkel\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Pages are clean with no markings. May show minor signs of wear or cosmetic defects  marks, cuts, bends, or scuffs  on the cover, spine, pages, or dust jacket. May have remainder marks on edges.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41458291998778,"sku":"DBV.0692895833.VG","price":7.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/0692895833-0.jpg?v=1781132106","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/build-a-business-not-a-job","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}