Barrow Colin - Business Skills All-in-One For Dummies

Business Skills All-in-One For Dummies, UK Edition

by Colin Barrow, Kate Burton, Peter Economy, Clare Evans, Nick Graham, Tom Hopkins, Ben Kench, Elizabeth Kuhnke, Malcolm Kushner, John Marrin, Bob Nelson, Richard Pettinger, Brinley Platts, Stan Portny, Romilla Ready, John A. Tracy and Rob Yeung

Edited by Kate Burton

Business Skills All-in-One For Dummies, UK Edition

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About the Authors

Colin Barrow was, until recently, Head of the Enterprise Group at Cranfield School of Management, where he taught entrepreneurship on the MBA and other programmes. He is also a visiting professor at business schools in the US, Asia, France, and Austria. His books on entrepreneurship and small business have been translated into twenty languages including Russian and Chinese. He worked with Microsoft to incorporate the business planning model used in his teaching programmes into the software program, Microsoft Business Planner. He is a regular contributor to newspapers, periodicals and academic journals such as the Financial Times, The Guardian, Management Today, and the International Small Business Journal.

Thousands of students have passed through Colins start-up and business growth programmes, going on to run successful and thriving enterprises, and raising millions in new capital. He is on the board of several small businesses, is a University Academic Governor, and has served on the boards of public companies, venture capital funds, and on Government Task Forces.

Kate Burton (see www.kateburton.co.uk ) is an international NLP master coach who challenges individuals and organisations to create lives that are sustainable and fun. Her business career began in corporate advertising and marketing with Hewlett-Packard. Now she works with leaders and managers across industries and cultures to work at their best. She loves to deliver custom-built coaching programmes that support people to boost their communication skills, motivation, self-awareness, and confidence. She believes that people all have unique talents, abilities and core values: the skill is about honouring them to the full. In addition to co-authoring NLP For Dummies, the NLP Workbook and Confidence For Dummies she is the author of Live Life. Love Work published by Capstone, an imprint of John Wileys. Her latest addition to the Dummies personal development range is Coaching with NLP For Dummies.

Peter Economy, MBA is associate editor of Leader to Leader, the award- winning magazine of the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Leadership, and author of numerous books. Peter combines his writing expertise with more than 15 years of management experience to provide his readers with solid, hands-on information and advice. He received his bachelors degree (with majors in economics and human biology) from Stanford University and his MBA at the Edinburgh Business School. Visit Peter at his website: www.petereconomy.com .

Clare Evans is a personal and business coach working with individuals and businesses to improve their time management, increase productivity, and create a better work life balance in these time-challenged times.

Clare worked in the corporate sector for a global company for many years. Managing IT projects and working with global teams, she understands the pressures todays working environment places on peoples time and the difficulty of creating a better worklife balance.