The Street-Smart Entrepreneur
This highly recommended book is full of sage insights for entrepreneurs and managers. Covering a range of topics which include tips on interviewing prospective employees, marketing and finance, successful entrepreneur Jay Goltz is insightful in his advice.
With a table of contents and index, the book is constructed in an anecdotal fashion. Goltz waxes philosophical about a variety of subjects in a common format; he shares "What I Used To Think" and then "What Nobody Told Me" before summarizing his experience in a lesson - hence, the subtitle of the book.
He is brutally honest. For example, in Lesson #38 he tells the entrepreneur that "You could be the worst person to do the hiring at your company." In Lesson #37 he shares his successful hiring experience in using the BATH test to make a good hiring decision. I found Goltz's Lesson #7 insightful when he concludes that "Two out of three ain't bad when you're talking about price, quality, and service." His Lesson #67 about giving year-end bonuses is instructive.
There are many people with whom I'd like to share the insights in this book, but they'll have to buy a copy. I'm not giving mine away.
-- From Independent Publisher
Books Featuring Jay
Small Giants
Jay and his company, Artists Frame Service, are one of 14 featured companies in Bo Burlingham's book, "Small Giants: Companies That Choose to be Great Instead of Big".
For all you harried entrepreneurs out there, Bo Burlingham has a reassuring message: Relax. Bigger isn't necessarily better. The wonderful stories in Small Giants show you how to prosper by retaining the vision of excellence that got you into business in the first place.
-- Rosabeth Moss Kanter, author of Confidence
It aims to do for small private companies what In Search of Excellence did two decades ago for big public companies: shine a light on a handful of business practices the author admires, and which he believes are the reason some companies consistently do better than others.
-- Joseph Nocera, The New York Times
Giving
Jay and Artists Frame Service were singled out by Bill Clinton in his book, Giving for his pro-bono consulting work with the Urban Enterprise Initiative.
Bookstore shelves are crammed with offerings by presidential candidates, but now we have the first book of the season by a former candidate for first spouse. Bill Clinton titles his thin volume Giving because it extols the virtues of volunteering time and money to worthy causes.
-- Peter Baker, The Washington Post
