PDBL00-21 Paul Downs - Boss Life.nfo
General Information
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Title: Boss Life: Surviving My Own Small Business
Author: Paul Downs
Read By: Jonathan Hogan
Copyright: 2015
Audiobook Copyright: 2015
Genre: Nonfiction - Memoirs - Business
Publisher: Recorded Books
Abridged: No
Original Media Information
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Media: Digital
Length each: Chapters mostly
Source: OneClick MP3
File Information
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Number of MP3s: 21
Total Duration: 12:30:21
Total MP3 Size: 258.07
Parity Archive: No
Ripped By: 3j
Encoded With: LAME
Encoded At: CBR 48 kbit/s 32000 Hz Mono
Normalize: None
Noise Reduction: None
ID3 Tags: Set, v1.1, v2.3
Book Description
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Publisher's Summary
When columnist Paul Downs was approached by the New York Times to write
for their You're the Boss blog, he had been running his custom furniture
business for 24 years strong - or mostly strong. Now he embarks on a
book-length essay that intends to show a portrait of a real business,
with a real boss, a real set of employees, and the real challenges they
face, in hopes of promoting a better understanding of the behaviors
of small-business owners.
In 1986, fresh out of college, Paul Downs opened his first and last
business: a small company that built custom furniture. With no idea
how to run a business or how to build custom furniture, Downs spent
a year teaching himself the business, and in 1987 he hired his first
employee. That was when things got complicated.
As his business began to grow, he had to learn about management, cash
flow, taxes, and so much more. Furthermore, globalization and the arrival
of the Internet made a big impact on the economy, causing him to have
to reevaluate, restructure, and reinvent. Most important, Downs is keenly
aware that every small business, no matter the product it makes or the
service it provides, starts with people. He writes with tremendous insight
about hiring employees, providing motivation to get the best jobs out
of them and incentive to maintain their loyalty and respect, and the
difficult decisions he's made to let some of them go.
With honesty and conviction, Downs tells the true story behind building
and sustaining a successful company in an ever-evolving economy, often
airing his own failures and shortcomings to unveil the difficulties
that arise from being a boss and a businessperson. We've heard countless
stories from employees about their managers; Boss Life seeks to tell
the other side of that story.
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