The Successful Entrepreneur's Guidebook: Where You Are Now, Where You Want to Be, and How to Get There

by Colin Barrow, Liz Clarke, Robert Brown

Now in its second edition, The Successful Entrepreneur's Guidebook explores the characteristics of “champion” enterprises and helps entrepreneurs develop professionally and grow their business. Basing their program on Cranfield School of Management research, which analyzed the accounts of some 15,000 firms, the authors have distilled the essence of how to achieve profitable growth. They chart the problems that owner-managed firms are likely to encounter and suggest ways to anticipate and resolve them.


Packed with helpful assignments, topical case studies and a well-balanced use of management models, it enables entrepreneurs to examine their businesses now, determine where they want to take their business, and create a business plan to take them there.

338 pages, Paperback

First published January 3, 2007

About the author

Colin Barrow is the author of more than 25 books in the fields of entrepreneurship, business management and international property development. His books have been published by the BBC, The Economist, The Sunday Times, Kogan Page, he has authored or co-authored ten books in the Dummies series and been translated into a score of languages including Chinese, Arabic, Russian, Georgian, Romanian, Polish and Bahasa Indonesia.
Following a career in business where he held senior staff and line positions, including that of managing director of a substantial manufacturing enterprise with multi -plant and multi-country operations he was Head of the Enterprise Group at Cranfield School of Management, a leading European Business School, for ten years. He has been a visiting professor in universities in the US, Europe and the Far East. For five years he was a non-executive director of a high tech venture capital fund, has sat on Government task forces and is now strategic advisor to a number of business owners.
As well as his own books he currently writes freelance, ghost writing and 'Anglicising' books for American authors and lectures extensively on business topics. You can hear Colin's podcast on team building at http://www.morethanbusiness.com/Knowl...