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A Simple Time Management Framework For CEOs - Focused Selectively, Engaged Exhaustively

2012-01-24T07:58:00.000-08:00

Whether an entrepreneur, lifestyle business enterprise owner, or top executive, a Chief Executive Officer's (CEO's) time is always in demand, and limited by issues, events, and activities competing for attention. It is important for CEOs to be organized - ensuring that they are focused selectively on what's important, but engaged exhaustively across their span of control to ensure adequate coverage.

Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) have the ultimate responsibility for the governance of both the administrative and operational activities of an enterprise, reporting to a board of directors or members, who are ultimately accountable to the investors. A CEO must be able to prioritize issues, events, and activities; develop plans and policies; and measure performance, while ensuring that the key functions are adequately addressed over time.

Much of a CEO's time is spent communicating plans, policies, and performance to constituencies, while delegating deployment and execution to the rest of the management team. However, it is important for a CEO to be in touch, both across and within the enterprise.

Whereas the issues and spans of control facing entrepreneurs, lifestyle business enterprise owners, and top executives in larger enterprises may differ, the functional coverage is essentially the same. In larger enterprises, the responsibility for the operational functions is often delegated to a Chief Operating Officer (COO), who may be a CEO in training.

Engaging across functions is the most exhaustive method of ensuring adequate coverage.

Smaller enterprises are usually organized solely by function, at least initially. Medium to larger enterprises are often organized by units. Units include product line, business line, or strategic business, in demographic or geographic markets, subdivided in divisions, departments, plants and branches. The functions can be addressed across or within the organizational units, depending upon significance.

The key questions for selective and exhaustive time management are:

Which issues, events, and activities should be prioritized as high, medium, or low, and why?
Who needs attention now, and why?
How should plans and policies be deployed and executed?
Where should time be spent and when - daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, annually?

Administratively:

• Enterprise - investor and public relations, government affairs, brand management, community relationships, real estate, philanthropy, ombudsman, internal audit
• Legal - regulatory protection and compliance, litigation
• Finance - borrowing, financing, investing, credit extension, insurance
• Human Resources - employment, compensation, training, development
• Information Technology - analytical and operational systems

Operationally:

• Research and Development - innovation, program and project management, engineering: markets, products, infrastructure
• Operations - procurement, manufacturing (or equivalent in non-manufacturing enterprises), distribution
• Business Development - marketing, sales, service

What should time be spent on and when (daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, annually)?:

Planning and policy development:

• Enterprise - aspiration (values, mission, vision, value proposition), industry and market position and posture
• Competitive position and posture
• Performance improvement - repositioning, restructuring, reengineering
• Constituency (employees, customers, suppliers, investors, regulators, competitors): objectives, goals, targets, and strategic initiatives; collaborative and cooperative relationships
• Functional, operational, and financial

Capabilities (capacities and abilities) for deployment and execution:

• People - aptitude and proficiency
• Processes and functions - effectiveness and efficiency
• Products and/or services - benefits and features

Performance measurement - enterprise and constituencies (key indicators - rates, quantities, volumes, aging, ratios):

• Financial - revenue, costs and expenses, profits, cash flows, returns on investment
• Non-financial - market share and penetration, product usage, satisfaction, quality, time-to-market, cycle time, productivity, asset capacity and utilization, sustainability

How much time should be allocated to each function?

The answer depends upon the opportunities and threats that are critical to the enterprise at any point in time, and probability of return on investment, so selective focus is essential. But over time, all functions must be addressed so that coverage is exhaustive.

Time management is an enterpriship (entrepreneurship, leadership, and management) competency.

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Outline For A Business Plan For Financing

2012-01-19T13:35:00.000-08:00

Business plans for financing are subsets of strategic plans aimed specifically as focused succinct presentations to external investors, or for internal budgets.

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Strategy to Budget - Seven Types of Plans For Building Sustainable Advantage

2012-01-16T07:24:00.000-08:00

Building sustainable advantage begins with high-level planning and policy development activities. Plans are subsequently drilled down into greater levels of detail by purpose and activity as more information becomes available. Plans include strategic, information technology, tactical, operational, financial, financing, and budgets.

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The Duplicable Principle - Earning Value Through Growth Reliably

2012-01-14T10:12:00.000-08:00

Every successful enterprise wants and needs to further its vision and to expand profitably in order to build sustainable advantage. To facilitate sustainability, processes must be integrated from their components in a form that is duplicable. Once integrated, the enterprise can further penetrate existing markets, or expand into new markets reliably to earn value through growth.

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The Case For Teamwork - Together Everyone Achieves More

2012-01-13T08:02:00.000-08:00

Every enterprise comprises individuals who are assigned to one or more groups. A group becomes a team when the individuals within it share common purpose. Whereas a group comprises independent contributors, a team comprises interdependent contributors. Results can emerge from teams that are broader and deeper than those from the individual members to the benefit of the enterprise and its constituencies.

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Exploring the Leadership Role - Setting Direction That Others Will Follow to Achieve Results

2012-01-12T14:42:00.000-08:00

The leadership role is about influencing people through aspirational, inspirational, and motivational communications. The role is equally applicable to top-level executives, team leaders within functions, or any individual in between.

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Balancing Inter-Personal Skills With Professional Skills

2012-01-11T07:04:00.000-08:00

Success in business is as much based upon using inter-personal skills effectively as it is based upon using professional skills. Personal characteristics are specific to each individual, and include preferences regarding the self and relationships with others. Professional characteristics apply to occupation and public life in terms of role, qualifications, competence, and experience.

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Understanding Financial, Managerial, and Regulatory Accounting and Reporting Concepts

2012-01-10T17:57:00.000-08:00

Every enterprise has to file regulatory reports with both Federal and state agencies. Managerial reports are necessary for internal control and decision making, and financial reports are necessary for investors and creditors such as financial institutions. Financial, managerial, and regulatory reports should be reconciled to ensure that the differences between information reported externally and internally, and vice versa, are fully understood.

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Using Communication Styles That Entertain, Inform, Convince and Persuade Effectively

2012-01-09T16:26:00.000-08:00

Successful entrepreneurs and executives understand the power of effective communications - the ability to entertain, inform, convince, and persuade. Whether for recruiting, job assignments, selling, or mergers and acquisitions, negotiations cannot have a successful outcome unless these four communications styles are used effectively to reach closure.

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Understanding Individual Competencies to Build Successful Personal and Professional Relationships

2012-01-08T12:30:00.000-08:00

The likelihood of success in both personal and professional situations depends upon knowing your own strengths and weaknesses, knowing what is expected of you, and then being able to adapt accordingly. Understanding your individual competencies, and those of others, is a necessary step to building successful relationships.

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Organizing Functional Knowledge and Technical Skills to Deliver Value

2012-01-06T16:40:00.000-08:00

A frequent issue facing entrepreneurs and executives alike is how to organize an enterprise. There are many options including those based upon product lines, business lines by markets, and business units by industry. However the process starts by properly identifying the functions - areas of subject matter expertise that are relevant to earning value.

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The Hi-Spot Review For Quick Situation Assessments and Direction Setting

2012-01-05T18:16:00.000-08:00

Both executive management in large enterprises and lifestyle business owners are often too focused on short-term operational issues to notice both long-term and short-term strategic and financial issues that may be affecting their businesses, such as competitive threats, dissatisfied customers, underperforming products and/or services, or out-of-control costs and expenses.

The consequences could be disastrous in terms of loss of market share, customers, profits, and other factors if not dealt with promptly, but may be unanticipated.

A Hi-Spot Review is a "mini-strategic planning" project, initiated on an unplanned basis, to determine a response to unanticipated events, ideas, or activities that impact strategy. The name means "high-level and focused" - derived from the phrase "high level strategic plan for opportunities and threats." The review is intended to be both diagnostic and prescriptive. The review consists of a quick situation assessment and a project definition that sets direction. The result determines the solution to a specific opportunity or threat that can be enacted immediately through one or more implementation projects.

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An enterprise can initiate a Hi-Spot review project in response to events, ideas, and activities when immediate action is necessary. A Hi-Spot review is a mini strategic plan for opportunities and threats, and may result in new initiatives or enhancements and modifications to existing plans. It is conducted within the context of a current strategic plan. Hence, assumptions for values, guiding principles, mission, vision, and other strategic statements are upheld, unless there is a good reason for change.

Events, ideas, and activities...

In the ideal world, there would be ample time to develop well crafted strategic plans that address both long-term aspirations and short-term vision offensively. In the real world, pressures from unanticipated events and changes in competitive, economic, environmental, political, regulatory, social, and technological trends can have an adverse impact on strategy. As a consequence, prompt defensive repositioning, restructuring, or reengineering activities may be necessary to respond to current threats, and to enable future offensive opportunities. Workouts, turnarounds, and profit improvement programs may be necessary to provide more general longer-term solutions.

Breakthrough ideas can arise at any time from an entrepreneur who starts an enterprise, or from any individual within, whether an executive, an intrapreneur, or an employee-at-large. A breakthrough idea overcomes an obstacle and allows for more progress in a specialty area. A breakthrough idea provides a new source of opportunity or response to a threat. Ideas can arise in any activity including planning and policy setting in the board room, research and development in the laboratory, sales in the field, production in the plant, and performance measurement in an executive's office. Ideas can also arise from constituencies including employees through suggestion programs, and customers, suppliers, investors, regulators, competitors, and the community-at-large through listening posts. Ideas from constituencies have merit because they provide feedback to the management of the enterprise.

A review can be initiated at any time on an ad-hoc basis to determine the scope and impact of events and new ideas on research, development, sales, and production activities. In this context, the term "ad hoc" means that the review is focused on solving a specific problem. However, sometimes the term connotes an improvised solution without proper planning, which can often lead to more problems over time. Whereas a Hi-Spot review may address the consequences of improvisation, it should avoid creating such problems in the future.

Examples of activities that benefit from a Hi-Spot review include:

• Responding to new entrants in existing markets
• Responding to unexpected decreases in revenue or increases in costs and expenses
• Beginning a new business relationship, such as a merger or acquisition with a peer or competitor, or a venture with customer or supplier
• Implementing total quality management initiatives
• Implementing organizational design initiatives
• Outsourcing processes and functions
• Determining "mid-course corrections" to existing projects

These activities can lead to repositioning, restructuring, reengineering, workout, turnaround, and profit improvement programs as defined by a Hi-Spot review.

External events and breakthrough ideas can be quite disruptive to plans and programs that are already in place. However, plans are living documents. Ideas that merit further analysis can be examined in research and development activities, and implemented in sales and production. However, it may not be prudent to ignore the impact of ideas on strategy until the next planning cycle, especially if market share or profits are at risk.

Phasing...

Hi-Spot reviews are conducted in two phases - quick situation assessment and project definition. A project definition follows a quick situation assessment, but can be initiated in its own right for breakthrough ideas.

A quick situation assessment is often necessary because the enterprise has delayed taking remedial action and has reached a "pain point" that requires an immediate prescription. The delay can be as a consequence of fear to act or hope that conditions will improve. In addition to a follow on from a quick situation assessment, a project definition is necessary for breakthrough ideas that offer a sustainable advantage for which an immediate benefit can be realized. If responses to these ideas are not being addressed elsewhere in current plans and programs, then a project definition should be initiated.

The output from a Hi-Spot review is one or more well defined implementation projects. The rigor of the project management discipline should assure that results are realized during implementation, are focused, and are not improvised. Activities that are initiated in the implementation projects may be integrated with others in research, development, sales, and production over time.

Quick situation assessment...

The purpose of the quick situation assessment is determine a recommended solution and action plan to an immediate problem. It is best to employ a self-directed cross-functional team with a facilitator. The facilitator suggests problem solving approaches; however, the team finalizes them based upon their background and experience. The facilitator provides mentoring and coaching throughout the review.

Elements of a 10 step group problem solving approach include:

1. Summarizing the current situation and determining what complicates it
2. Framing the problem with facts and supporting evidence, and investigating the causes and effects
3. Developing alternative solution hypotheses - testable statements with predictions, projections, and forecasts
4. Developing the approach to the situation and gap analysis
5. Gathering the data
6. Structuring the results
7. Proving or disproving the solution hypotheses
8. Formulating the best solution based upon findings and conclusions
9. Developing alternative courses of action to implement the best solution
10. Presenting the best recommended solution and action plan

In performing the situation and gap analysis, topics to address include:

• External - competitive, economic, environmental, political, regulatory, social, and technological trends
• Internal - strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats
• Gaps - where the enterprise is and where it needs to be with respect to its constituencies: employees, customers, suppliers, investors, regulators, competitors, and the community-at-large

Since the situation and gap analysis is performed within the context of the existing strategic plan, other elements of strategy formulation are not addressed unless there is a good reason to do so.

A funnel approach should be used to drill down from the general landscape to specific issues and to prioritize them accordingly. The funnel approach starts with first asking open-ended questions to principals and constituencies, and then as the problem is identified, using specific questions to narrow the scope of the analysis. The approach includes employing the nominal group problem solving technique, triaging the problem and solutions, and applying the Pareto principle to prioritize ideas, issues, options, and recommendations.

The nominal group technique is a method of building consensus in face-to-face meetings with each member participating equally as follows:

• Allowing participants the opportunity to write their ideas on paper
• Allowing each participant to read their ideas to the team, which are then recorded on charts
• Enabling the leader to discuss each idea when all have been recorded, and to clarify open points
• Enabling the participants to vote for three to five ideas that have been recorded on the charts
• Prioritizing the list of ideas according to the votes
• Reviewing and summarizing the priorities collectively by the team

Triage is a technique used by healthcare service providers to prioritize procedures on patients based upon severity of condition. The technique can be applied by enterprises for problems and solutions associated with processes, functions, products and/or services, markets, and constituencies, and involves assigning three levels of priority:

• Highest priority - most critical or highest probability of return
• Medium priority - next most critical or medium probability of return
• Low priority - least critical or lowest probability of return

The percentage weightings may vary according to circumstances, but a common starting point is "20-70-10" from highest to lowest.

The Pareto Principle is also known as the "80/20" rule - 80 percent of the effects come from 20 percent of the causes. It provides a useful mindset for making tough decisions and setting priorities.

The drill down can be conducted within the context of the framework for building sustainable advantage. The framework for building sustainable advantage is a fundamental tool for establishing the mindset and actions required to transform vision into value on an ongoing basis within an environment of change - either by causing it or responding to it.

Building sustainable advantage requires:

• Establishing the governance disciplines of stewardship, strategy, and structure required to form a vision based upon innovative ideas, to enact change, and to deliver value through...

• ...the capabilities of people, processes and functions, and products and/or services to take advantage of opportunities in the marketplace...

• ...and the effective utilization of natural, human, intellectual, and financial capital resources to provide a strong foundation for all activities

If necessary, further due diligence may be necessary that examines the current position and relationships of the enterprise before the recommended solution can be enacted. If detailed implementation plans are required, the action plan can be expanded in a project definition.

The key success factor in a quick situation assessment is to establish a facilitated process that encourages involvement, but is not bureaucratic.

Project definition...

The purpose of a project definition is to set direction for implementation in terms of scope, objectives, deliverables, resources, and schedule with both short and long-term components as necessary. Some short-term activities may be expendable in the long-term, but are required in order to realize benefits quickly.

A project definition is a follow-on to a quick situation assessment to develop detailed implementation plans. It can also be initiated in its own right for a breakthrough idea. A project manager is either appointed or emerges, and is supported by a cross-functional team. Some team members assigned to the quick situation assessment may continue through the project definition, and others with implementation experience may be added.

The project definition develops plans in sufficient detail so that downstream research and development activities, including analysis, design, construction, implementation, enhancement, and maintenance can be conducted. These activities may have to be prioritized against existing ones. If necessary, the scope, objectives, deliverables, resources, and schedule of existing projects may have to be adjusted. However, caution is warranted to ensure that the latest project does not get the highest priority unnecessarily at the expense of other projects.

The output of a project definition, which embellishes the output from a quick situation assessment if there was one, includes:

• Understanding the problem (situation, complication, problem statement, solution description)
• Scope and objectives
• Approach
• Deliverables including a plan for the next phase of work
• Work plan (work breakdown structure, resource requirements, schedule)
• Governance (project manager, steering committee, standards for performance and measurement)
• Next steps

Once the decision has been made to go ahead, one or more implementation projects are executed with an emphasis on getting results quickly.

Key success factor...

It is important that the follow-on activities from the project definition be monitored with milestones and progress reporting. It is easy to lose control of such activities if they are not properly monitored, especially if new opportunities and threats subsequently arise.

The Enterpriship Manifesto – Seven Guiding Principles For Building Enterprises and Societies

2011-12-17T16:18:00.000-08:00

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The Enterpriship Manifesto – Seven Guiding Principles For Building Enterprises and Societies

2011-12-17T16:16:00.000-08:00

The Enterpriship Manifesto – Seven Guiding Principles For Building Enterprises and Societies

Nigel Brooks, LLC announces two service lines for enterprises and individuals

2011-11-07T08:42:00.000-08:00

Phoenix, Arizona, November 07, 2011 -- Nigel Brooks LLC announces two service lines: the Hi-Spot Review program for enterprises, and the Achieve Plan B program for individuals. The Hi-Spot Review program is a mini-strategic planning project to determine responses to events, ideas, or activities that impact markets, products and/or services, revenues, profits, and financing. The Achieve Plan B program helps individuals develop multiple income streams in uncertain times.

"The mission of Nigel Brooks, LLC is to enhance the livelihoods of enterprises, and both the personal and professional lives of individuals, by helping people reach their goals," said Nigel A.L. Brooks.

For enterprises, the mission is achieved through the Hi-Spot Review program. The name means "high level and focused" - derived from the phrase "high level strategic plan for opportunities and threats." The Hi-Spot Review program is of particular value to businesses in the construction, financial services, hi-tech, manufacturing and distribution, merchandising, professional services, and transportation industries.

A Hi-Spot Review is both diagnostic and prescriptive. The review consists of a quick situation assessment and a project definition that sets direction for positioning or reengineering a business. "The result determines the solution to a specific opportunity or threat that can be enacted immediately through one or more implementation projects," Brooks emphasized. “Hi-Spot Reviews are appropriate for revenue enhancement, expense reduction, and hence, profit improvement.”

For individuals, the mission is achieved through the Achieve Plan B program by applying the "individualpreneurship" discipline - the notion of an individual as an enterprise. Individualpreneurship is a mindset for income generation for the fully-employed, self-employed, under-employed, and unemployed, whether working for somebody else, for themselves as sole-practitioners, while planning the next ventures, or just in-between opportunities. "Individualpreneurship is focused "multipreneurship, " Brooks suggested.

"The individualpreneurship discipline embraces the "enterpriship" disciplines of entrepreneurship, leadership, and management, which apply to every individual in business, whether fully-employed or not," Brooks said. "Understanding enterpriship disciplines is extremely important for success as both an employee and as an entrepreneur/business owner."

In the corporate world, leadership and managerial capabilities are essential for advancement through the ranks. Thinking and behaving as an "individualprise" helps an individual perform better for their employer, especially in an executive capacity, because they understand the concepts of income generation and expense, asset, liability, and capital management. For visionaries in the corporate world, intrapreneurial capabilities are also important for enacting change.

The Achieve Plan B program is delivered through mentoring and coaching programs to individuals, primarily over the internet, and by the seminar program entitled "Secrets of Individualpreneurship - Building A Sustainable Self-Reliant Career." The mentoring programs include the "enterpriship" disciplines, understanding personal styles, and understanding individual competencies.

“Recognizing the problems with the economy, and how unprepared individuals are for the uncertainty of the future, I am offering my entrepreneurial, leadership, managerial, and marketing knowledge and skills to help others,“ Brooks said.

Nigel Brooks, LLC was founded in 2008 and provides strategic management consulting, executive coaching and mentoring, professional training, and motivational speaking. It develops entrepreneurial, leadership, and managerial competencies to achieve performance excellence through business leadership development from vision to value.

 For enterprises, more information about the Hi-Spot Review program can be obtained at: www.hispotreview.com.

 For individuals, more information about the Achieve Plan B program can be obtained at: www.nigelalbrooks.biz.

 Nigel Brooks LLC's intellectual capital is published by The Business Leadership Development Corporation: www.bldsolutions.com.

Individualpreneurship - La discipline de l'entrepreneur individuel tant qu'entreprise

2011-11-03T12:26:00.000-07:00

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BLD Announces New Ebook: An Introduction To Individualpreneurship - The Individual As An Enterprise

2011-10-15T20:46:00.000-07:00

The Business Leadership Development Corporation (BLD) announces the publication of its ebook "An Introduction To Individualpreneurship – The Individual As An Enterprise."

www.individualpreneurship.com

The individualpreneurship discipline and the notion of an individual as an enterprise (individualprise) must be of interest to anybody who wants to advance as an employee into a leadership and/or managerial capacity, be self-employed as an independent contractor or freelancer, be an entrepreneur/business owner by transforming innovative ideas into value by starting and operating an upwardly mobile enterprise that is focused on capturing large markets, or a lifestyle enterprise in local communities, such as a restaurant or a retail business, manage their own investments.

Individualpreneurship is a mindset for income generation for the fully-employed, self-employed, under-employed, and unemployed, whether working for somebody else, for themselves as sole-practitioners, while planning the next ventures, or just in-between opportunities. Opportunity is just beyond an individual's comfort zone, and the individualpreneurship discipline provides the framework for capturing it.

"The book is quick and handy reference guide," said Nigel A.L. Brooks, President of The Business Leadership Development Corporation and managing member, Nigel Brooks, LLC. Brooks is an individualpreneur, entrepreneur, business owner, management and marketing consultant, motivational speaker, and expert author.

"Establishing the individualpreneurship mindset enables an individual to exert more control over all of their income generating activities, whether fully-employed, self-employed, under-employed, or unemployed," Brooks added.

The ebook is augmented by the Understanding Personal Styles webinar and the Individual Competencies Assessment:

www.understandingpersonalstyles.com/webinar

www.individualcompetencies.com

The individualpreneurship discipline embraces the enterpriship disciplines of entrepreneurship, leadership, and management, which apply to every individual in business, whether fully-employed or not. Understanding enterpriship disciplines is extremely important for success as both an employee and as an entrepreneur/business owner. In the corporate world, leadership and managerial capabilities are essential for advancement through the ranks. Thinking and behaving as an "individualprise" helps an individual perform better for their employer, especially in an executive capacity, because they understand the concepts of income generation and expense, asset, liability, and capital management. For visionaries in the corporate world, intrapreneurial capabilities are also important for enacting change.

"For those seeking employment positions, recognizing that a job search is a marketing campaign, just as for a business, improves the likelihood of a satisfactory result," emphasized Brooks.

Simultaneously, with the launch of the ebook, Brooks is announcing "Individualpreneurship" as a new area of practice that is aimed at helping individuals develop multiple sources of income in uncertain times.

"This area of practice is aimed at people who have previously been employed, but are now interested in entrepreneurship, business ownership, and/or contracting, who have little to no prior experience in self-employment," Brooks explained.

The economy is restructuring, and trends in globalization and information, process, telecommunications, and transportation technologies are causing a complete change in the way that individuals will earn income in the future," he said. "In the future, there will be a small number of very large global companies and a larger number of specialized boutiques that both offer employment to qualified individuals. Beyond that, there will be a very large number of individualprises, consisting of individualpreneurs who provide services as independent contractors to other enterprises, market products and/or services for others, and deliver products and/services directly. Many of these activities will be performed over the internet by webpreneurs.

Nigel Brooks, LLC will be offering mentoring and coaching programs to individuals, primarily over the internet; BLD will be offering publications and seminars as part of the Nigel Brooks Seminar series.

Brooks has substantive experience in business and technology strategy formulation and planning, organizational reviews, and performance assessments in both North and Latin America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific through prior roles at E2020, American Express, Booz Allen Hamilton (now Booz & Co.) and Andersen Consulting (now Accenture). He was also president of Javazona Cafes, Inc. - an award winning European-style gourmet coffee and catering business concept. He was a pioneer in the field of ecatering.

The mission of both enterprises is to "enhance the livelihood of enterprises, and both the personal and professional lives of individuals by helping people reach their goals from vision to value."

Nigel Brooks, LLC was founded in 2008 and provides strategic management consulting, executive coaching and mentoring, professional training, and motivational speaking. It develops entrepreneurial, leadership, and managerial competencies to achieve performance excellence by building sustainable advantage from vision to value. It focuses on the construction, distribution, education, financial services, information technology, manufacturing, nutraceutical, retail, and transportation industries. Functional areas include marketing, operations, and finance. The individualpreneurship offering is a separate practice area.

 www.nigelalbrooks.com

 BLD was founded in 1994 and established its management consulting practice in 2000. Brooks is directing BLD's business in publishing leadership development articles, books, and seminars, leading with the very successful Understanding Personal Styles Seminar, the Individual Competencies Assessment, and the Enterpriship Digest. Enterpriship is the process of building enterprises with sustainable advantage, and employs a framework of three related disciplines: entrepreneurship, leadership, and management. "Enterpriship" is derived from four words: management, leadership, enterprise, and entrepreneurship.

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Individualpreneurship - The Discipline Of The Individual Entrepreneur As An Enterprise

2011-09-29T09:10:00.000-07:00

Individualpreneurship is an activity whereby an individual (the "individualpreneur") behaves as an enterprise in their own right, and is fully responsible for both professional and personal income generation and expense management. The individualprise is the notion of an individual as an enterprise with multiple streams of income from employment, entrepreneurship/business ownership, and investing activities.

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Individualpreneurship is not a new concept; it has its roots in agricultural societies where individuals and families worked the land and had other forms of income from crafts such as ironwork, needlework, and woodwork that became cottage industries in their own right. These individuals and families as individualpreneurs had multiple sources of income that provided hedges against poor harvests, and for the changing wants and needs associated with supply and demand of materials and supplies, labor, and products and/or services.

Entrepreneurs would "put out" work to individualpreneurs who were, in effect, independent contractors. In the shift from the agricultural age to the industrial age, operational work became centralized in factories and later, administrative work became centralized in offices. Practices were established over time, often with the involvement of unions, that have become regulated through labor and employment, health and welfare, immigration, and taxation laws and regulations at both the Federal and state levels. Such practices turned the notion job creation into a complex activity subject to a multitude of laws and regulations with risk of litigation and penalties for non-compliance.

In the peak of the industrial age, one could expect to be employed by a single employer for many years, if not for an entire career, and earn many benefits as a consequence thereof aimed at retaining quality and/or loyal people. The cost of benefits, employment and unemployment taxes, and workers compensation insurance have to be added to the direct labor rate to determine the fully loaded rate. The labor rate becomes fully burdened when overhead costs such as equipment, facilities, supervision, supplies and utilities are added to the fully loaded rate. Fully burdened costs can easily be twenty to thirty percent more than the direct labor rate.

Some work may be performed by independent contractors, who are usually responsible for paying their own benefits, taxes, and insurance. However, strict rules apply as to whom can be classified as such. In general, the hirer of an independent contractor can control only the result of what gets done, but not how, when, or where. Many industries such as insurance, mortgage origination, real estate, and travel use independent contractors as agents to generate sales.

In the shift from the industrial to the information age, the impact of information, process, telecommunications, and transportation technologies has had a profound effect on the workplace, and has enabled globalization. The impact is across the board in entrepreneurial, leadership, and management (enterpriship) disciplines, and administrative and operational activities such finance, human resources, marketing and sales, manufacturing and distribution, and merchandising, Globalization enables work to be strategically sourced to best-in-class or scale (low-cost) providers for each output and related activities in the value chain. Taken to an extreme, it is possible to outsource everything except strategy formulation and strategic marketing activities. Information technology reduces analytical activities, and process technology reduces operational activities. Naturally outsourcing becomes popular when fully burdened rates, including telecommunications and transportation costs, are lower from third-party providers than in-house, and/or when there is less risk, especially with respect to litigation. However, there are negative consequences to local economies when employers eliminate large numbers of jobs through outsourcing. Therefore, the community costs and benefits should be considered in an outsourcing decision.

The effect of technology, and the consequential globalization, is that the need for professional staff and vocational labor in domestic employers is reduced, and in some cases quite dramatically. The traditional assumptions regarding employment in fully vertically integrated enterprises that historically performed all activities "in-house" erode. Thus many individuals find it hard to enter or remain in the traditional workplace, especially when cost and quality gaps exist between employers and with third-party outsourced providers who perform work cheaper at the same standards.

In retailing, the large "big box" stores will continue to provide scale for commodity products and/or services at discount prices, thus placing pressure on their suppliers to keep costs low. Specialty stores and boutiques will continue to provide value-added and higher quality products and/or services at premium prices. Manufacturers of new specialized personal products and/services, such as nutraceuticals, are more likely to establish networks of independent marketing representatives and sales agents, leveraging the internet where possible, than employ traditional brick and mortar wholesale and retail facilities to keep distribution costs low.

As a consequence, a new kind of entrepreneur is emerging - the individualpreneur. The individualpreneurs has multiple streams of income from employment and/or entrepreneurship/business ownership and investing activities. The individualpreneur has to take full responsibility for their livelihood through these activities. For example, an individualpreneur may be an employee on either a full-time or part-time basis for one or more enterprises, and/or be an entrepreneur in the emerging and growth stages of an upwardly mobile enterprise, and/or be a lifestyle business enterprise owner, and/or an independent contractor in such disciplines as affiliate marketing, consulting, freelancing, and network marketing. An individualpreneur may retain employees and independent contractors in their own right for upwardly entrepreneurial and lifestyle business ownership activities, while working alone as a solopreneur and/or a webpreneur on the internet.

The notion of individualpreneurship arises when traditional employment opportunities erode but there is an opportunity for an individual to provide value-added services, or because an individual wishes to pursue an entrepreneurial activity that may not be fully sustainable in its own right.

Examples of individualpreneurial activities include working part-time for an employer while operating a retail business or restaurant; working full-time for an employer while building a network marketing business; and providing freelance technology services while performing affiliate marketing activities and selling articles, books, and seminars on the internet.

Individualpreneurship is particularly relevant for young less experienced people who are entering the workplace for the first time, and for older people who are perceived as being inefficient, too expensive, and out-of-touch with their younger peers in the marketplace. However, older people may have years of functional knowledge and technical skills expertise that is of value to emerging, growth, and mature enterprises, and can be leveraged on a consulting basis without the burden of employment costs.

Individualpreneurship is a discipline that anybody who is unemployed or under-employed can pursue if they have the passion or the need; usually opportunity is just beyond their comfort zone.

The notion of individualpreneurship changes assumptions regarding benefits, insurance, and taxes, especially when individualpreneurs become service providers to prior employers as independent contractors. Hence, governments are likely to increase their enforcement of labor and employment and taxation laws as individualpreneurship, and especially independent contracting, becomes more common. However, with technology rapidly changing the paradigms of products and/or services and infrastructures, the life expectancy for particular types of job can be relatively short compared to the past.

As the economy continues to globalize and technology becomes more ubiquitous, more individuals will be faced with the need to develop their individualpreneurship knowledge and skills in order to be able to promote themselves in competitive marketplaces for both employment and products and/or services. In effect, this means understanding enterpriship (entrepreneurship, leadership, and management) disciplines, understanding personal styles, and being able to balance both professional and personal activities.

...and to assess your enterpriship competencies in thirty minutes or less, claim your opportunity for instant access when you go to http://www.fromvisiontovalue.com

From Nigel A.L. Brooks - Management Consultant and Motivational Speaker http://www.nigelalbrooks.com

Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Nigel_Brooks

Enterpriship - The Art and Science of Entrepreneurship, Leadership, and Management

2011-09-21T15:04:00.000-07:00

Enterpriship is the process of building enterprises with sustainable advantage within a framework of three related disciplines: entrepreneurship, leadership, and management. It is about the competencies of individuals and the capabilities of enterprises. Sustainable means being able to continue over time, either by developing, enhancing, or maintaining the current state, or by changing it. Advantage means favorable, superior, and beneficial.

For the rest of this article visit:

http://ezinearticles.com/?Enterpriship---The-Art-and-Science-of-Entrepreneurship,-Leadership,-and-Management&id=1549790

Narrowing The Gap – Formulating Constituency-Based Strategy

2011-09-13T09:26:00.000-07:00

Constituency-based strategy is about narrowing the gap between where an enterprise is and where it wants to be with respect to its employees, customers, suppliers, investors, regulators, and competitors. The same concept applies to its processes and products and/or services.

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The constituencies of an enterprise are:

Employees
Customers
Suppliers
Investors
Regulators
Competitors

Constituencies represent the people-oriented capabilities of an enterprise and its related-parties. The other capabilities are processes and products and/or services.

A process is a group of activities that:

Takes in one or more kinds of input
Creates output that is value to both external and internal consistencies

A product is a tangible output from a process that represents something of value – an item that meets a customer’s want or need. Products are component parts as single items or sub-assemblies, or end-products. Products are either commodities, such as oil or coffee, or value-added, such as manufactured items. Hard products are tangible; soft products are service-related. However, services are usually delivered with a product, regardless or whether it is hard or soft.

Constituency-based strategy narrows the gap between the enterprise and its related-parties. Narrowing the gap between where the enterprise is and where it wants to be with respect to its processes and products and/or services is usually a related set of activities to those for its constituencies. This is because everything ultimately relates to the primary constituencies of employees, customers, suppliers, and investors, in the context of the secondary constituencies of regulators and competitors, and the community-at-large. Constituency-based strategy can be expressed in terms of a “from to” relationship.

Constituency-based strategy is set in terms of related-party, processes, and products and/or services within a framework of objectives, targets, goals, strategic initiatives, and priorities.

Objectives are specific statements of direction and intended results for narrowing the gap between where an enterprise is and where it wants to be – from the current to the future state.

Targets are measurable criteria for achievement over time, and are expressed in terms of intermediate and final goals. Targets represent the points of arrival from a point of departure over time in a “from to” relationship.

Goals are specific statements of achievement for each objective in time, such as for one, three, or five-year targets. Goals should always be specified according SMART criteria:

Specific in terms of why, what, who, when, where, which, and how?
Measurable
Actionable, attainable, and agreed to
Realistic
Tangible and time-specific

Stretch goals are set at one hundred and fifteen percent of the base, and may deserve reward for extra achievement.
Strategic initiatives are the specific action items to achieve the targets. High priority action items are called strategic imperatives. The action items should always be expressed in terms of specific tasks and steps.

Priorities can be classified as high, medium, or low using value-based criteria, such as return on investment, time-to-market, or improvement in efficiency, productivity, or utilization. Priorities are set by executives and/or the board of directors (or equivalent) of an enterprise by objectives and strategic initiatives. No more than twenty percent of the priorities should be classified as high, and no less than ten percent should be classified as low.

Constituency-based strategy sets the framework for “management by objectives” programs.

Formulating constituency-based strategy is an enterpriship (entrepreneurship, leadership, and managerial) competency.

…and to assess your enterpriship competencies in thirty minutes or less, claim your opportunity for instant access when you go to http://www.fromvisiontovalue.com

State Notary

2011-07-22T11:20:00.000-07:00

http://www.statenotary.info/blog/legal-forms/achieving-plan-b-through-individualpreneurship-the-notion-of-an-individual-as-an-enterprise/

Achieving "Plan B" Through Individualpreneurship - The Notion Of The Individual As An Enterprise

2011-07-19T15:59:00.000-07:00

http://www.enterpriship.com/articles/iaae/

Enterpriship Articles Digest

2011-07-15T15:11:00.000-07:00

Enterpriship is the process of building enterprises with sustainable advantage, and has a framework of three related disciplines: entrepreneurship, leadership, and management. "Enterpriship" is derived from four words:
management, leadership, enterprise, entrepreneurship.

The digest of the Enterpriship articles is now online:

www.enterpriship.com/articles/digest/

Just published on articlesbase.com...

2010-10-08T14:24:00.000-07:00

http://www.articlesbase.com/management-articles/enterpriship-the-art-and-science-of-entrepreneurship-leadership-and-management-3423818.html

Position Paper: Outline For A Business Plan For Financing

2010-10-08T11:13:00.000-07:00

http://tiny.cc/bpfopp

Useful Planning and Organizing Tools for Enterpreneurs and Business Owners...

2010-09-21T12:10:00.000-07:00

Outline For A Business Plan For Financing:

http://www.bldsolutions.com/articles/bpfo.pdf

Due Diligence Checklist:

http://www.bldsolutions.com/articles/dd.pdf

Hi-Spot Review:

http://www.bldsolutions.com/articles/hsr.pdf

Enterprise Function Model:

http://www.bldsolutions.com/articles/efm.pdf

For more information, visit:

http://www.enterpriship.com

BLD Announces A Portfolio of "Quick" Articles About Project Management

2010-09-13T10:57:00.000-07:00

BLD's "Quick" articles on project management topics can be found at:

. Overview

www.bldsolutions.com/articles/pm.pdf

. Project Accounting

www.bldsolutions.com/articles/pa.pdf

. Earned Value

www.bldsolutions.com/articles/ev.pdf

. High Spot Review

www.bldsolutions.com/articles/hsr.pdf

BLD Announces the Enterpriship Regulatory Portal...

2010-09-10T13:53:00.000-07:00

The Enterpriship Regulatory Portal provides links to Federal and state government websites for entrepreneurs and business owners:

http://regulatory.enterpriship.com

http://regulatory.enterpriship.com/federal

http://regulatory.enterpriship.com/state/california

The portal is also available as an earticle for California: download

Trends In Online Education

2010-09-09T09:30:00.000-07:00

Methods of delivering middle and high school education are changing!!!

According to a meta-analysis released by the U.S. Department of Education, online learning has its advantages. The analysis shows that students who took all or part of their instruction online performed better, on average, than those receiving the same through face-to-face methods.

Furthermore, those who took "blended" courses - those that combine elements of online learning and face-to-face instruction - appeared to best of all.

For more information:

http://www.nigel-brooks-voice.com/ole/

Labor Compliance Requirements For California Public Works Projects

2010-09-07T18:15:00.000-07:00

Federal, State of California, county, and city financed projects offer huge opportunities for contractors. According to the Department of Industrial Relations there are almost 6,000 public works projects sponsored by State of California agencies, counties, cities, school districts, and other special districts between July 2010 and 2011.

Public works projects should set the standard for all construction projects in terms of governance, administrative, operational, and compliance activities because of the strict regulatory requirements resulting from taxpayers money being put to work.

The Federal Public Buildings, Property, and Works Code, The State of California Public Contracts Code, and various local county and city codes address how projects must be bid and conducted.

www.bldsolutions.com/articles/lcrca.pdf

The Enterpriship Manifesto – Seven Guiding Principles For Building Enterprises and Societies

2010-08-27T10:16:00.000-07:00

http://www.scribd.com/doc/36512846/The-Enterpriship-Manifesto-Seven-Guiding-Principles-For-Building-Enterprises-And-Societies

BLD Announces New Webinar – Understanding Personal Styles

2010-08-23T09:11:00.001-07:00

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

CONTACT:
Contact Person: Nigel A. L. Brooks
Company Name: The Business Leadership Development Corporation (BLD)
Phone Number: (602) 291-4595
Email Address: nalb@bldsolutions.com
Website URL – main: www.bldsolutions.com
– featured: www.understandingpersonalstyles.com/webinar

BLD Announces New Webinar – Understanding Personal Styles

Phoenix, Arizona, August 23, 2010

The Business Leadership Development Corporation (BLD) announces that based upon popular demand, its book “Understanding Personal Styles – Balancing Inter-Personal Skills with Professional Skills,” is now offered as a webinar. The webinar includes an online personality profile survey, an ebook, a presentation summary, and an ereference card.

Understanding Personal Styles was developed over several years from BLD's business strategy, organizational reviews, and performance assessments consulting practice, including seminars and one-on-one coaching and mentoring sessions.

“The webinar is of interest to entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, lifestyle business enterprise owners, executives, managers, professionals, and students in both their professional and personal lives,” said Nigel A.L. Brooks, author of the material and president of The Business Leadership Development Corporation. “It is extremely useful in helping people build stronger relationships with others in both the workplace and at home.”

The webinar provides a framework for determining the values, attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors of people. It increases the likelihood of success in both social and professional relationships, which is based on the ability to relate, to build a rapport, and to interact with others by being able to entertain, inform, convince, persuade, and negotiate with them.

The webinar is available at anytimes at: www.understandingpersonalstyles.com/webinar and costs $19.95 including all materials.

According to BLD's research, the likelihood of success in business is as much based upon using inter-personal skills effectively as it is based upon using professional skills.

BLD was founded in 1994, and established its management consulting practice in 2000. BLD provides strategic management consulting, executive coaching and mentoring, professional training, motivational speaking, and business publications. BLD develops entrepreneurial, leadership, and managerial competencies to achieve performance excellence by building sustainable advantage from vision to value.

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Compliance Guide For Contractors In California...

2010-08-10T21:21:00.000-07:00

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

CONTACT:

Contact Person: Nigel A. L. Brooks

Company Name: The Business Leadership Development Corporation (BLD)

Phone Number: (602) 291-4595

Email Address: bld@bldsolutions.com

Website URL: main: www.bldsolutions.com – featured: www.bldsolutions.com/cgc.ca/

ISBN – soft cover paperback: 978-0-97937508-8 ebook: 978-0-97937509-5

BLD Announces New Book:

Compliance Guide For Contractors

In California

Phoenix, Arizona, August 10, 2010

The Business Leadership Development Corporation (BLD) announces the publication of its book “Compliance Guide For Contractors In California” in soft cover paperback and ebook editions, with an accompanying web portal.

“Compliance Guide For Contractors In California” is an extremely useful reference guide for contractors doing business in California in both public and private works. The book contains links to over 150 Federal, State, and local websites that contain regulatory information for contractors.

“The book is quick and handy reference guide,” said Nigel A.L. Brooks, President of The Business Leadership Development Corporation. Brooks is an entrepreneur, business owner, management consultant, motivational speaker, and expert author.

“The book is accompanied by a web portal that contains electronic links to the sites and to other material on entrepreneurship, leadership, management, and business administration,” Brooks noted. “The web portal contains an up-to-date version electronic of the book, which can be downloaded onto mobile devices – hence contractors can have access to regulatory information in the field.”

Topics include an overview of the construction industry and the business of contracting, an overview of Federal and State laws and regulations concerning contractors for both public and private works, contents of construction contracts, and the underground economy. The book includes material on project management and managerial accounting techniques to help contractors understand costs and profits.

BLD was founded in 1994, and established its management consulting practice in 2000. BLD provides strategic management consulting, executive coaching and mentoring, professional training, motivational speaking, and publications. BLD develops entrepreneurial, leadership, and managerial competencies in entrepreneurs and executives by building sustainable advantage from vision to value.

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Ingredients For an Effective Project Proposal

2010-08-02T18:24:00.000-07:00

Interesting article:

Ingredients For an Effective Project Proposal

San Francisco Consulting and Interim Management

2010-07-27T09:57:00.000-07:00

Now concentrating on the San Francisco market for consulting and interim management.

Compliance Guide For Contractors In California...

2010-07-02T20:18:00.000-07:00

Prepublication ebook now available:

http://www.bldsolutions.com/cgc.ca/buy/index.html

The Hi-Spot Review For Quick Situation Assessments and Direction Setting

2010-06-28T05:59:00.000-07:00

http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Hi-Spot-Review-For-Quick-Situation-Assessments-and-Direction-Setting&id=4182907

Distribution Channels for BLD's publications

2010-05-23T11:53:00.000-07:00

1. etailia.com

2. enterpriship.com/marketplace

3. amazon.com

4. scribd.com

5. clickbank.com

From the University of Dayton...

2010-05-18T10:42:00.000-07:00

http://homepages.udayton.edu/~schneijc/Credo-For-Success---The-Enterpriship-Model-For-Entrepreneurship,-Leadership-and-Management

BLD Announces Book: Top 10 Articles On Enterpriship

2010-04-26T18:10:00.000-07:00

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

CONTACT:
Contact Person: Nigel A. L.Brooks
Company Name: The Business Leadership Development Corporation (BLD)
Phone Number: (602) 291-4595
Email Address: bld@bldsolutions.com
Website URL: main: http://www.bldsolutions.com
Featured: http://www.enterpriship.com/top10/
ISBN: 978-0-9793750-7-1

BLD Announces New Book: Top 10 Articles On Enterpriship

Phoenix, Arizona, April 26, 2010

The Business Leadership Development Corporation (BLD) announces the publication of its book “Top 10 Articles On Enterpriship” as a soft cover paperback. This book is a companion to “Understanding Personal Styles,” which was published earlier this year.

“Top 10 Articles On Enterpriship” represents the most popular articles on the subject of enterpriship written by Nigel A.L. Brooks and published over time. “Enterpriship” is the process of building enterprises with sustainable advantage, and has a framework of three related disciplines: entrepreneurship, leadership, and management. "Enterpriship" is derived from four words: management, leadership, enterprise, entrepreneurship.

“The selection is a quick read for aspiring entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, executives, lifestyle business enterprise owners, leaders, and managers,” said Nigel A.L. Brooks, President of The Business Leadership Development Corporation. Brooks is an entrepreneur, business owner, management consultant, motivational speaker, and expert author.

Topics include organizing functional knowledge; understanding individual competencies; using communications skills that entertain, inform, convince, and persuade effectively; understanding financial, managerial, and regulatory accounting and reporting concepts; and exploring the leadership role – setting direction that others will follow to achieve results.

The topics are based upon the experience of The Business Leadership Development Corporation working with entrepreneurs and executives in start-up ventures to the Fortune 100 on a local-to-global basis.

BLD was founded in 1994, and established its management consulting practice in 2000. BLD provides strategic management consulting, executive coaching and mentoring, professional training, motivational speaking, and publications. BLD develops entrepreneurial, leadership, and managerial competencies in entrepreneurs and executives by building sustainable advantage from vision to value.

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A Quick Read For Aspiring Entrepreneurs, Leaders, and Managers...

2010-04-20T07:12:00.000-07:00

Great article

2010-04-15T19:35:00.001-07:00

http://meronanblog.co.cc/constituency-advantage-competitive-collaborative-and-cooperative/

The Ideal Free Open Bundle

2010-03-24T12:06:00.000-07:00

. Ubuntu: operating system
. Wubi: running Ubuntu within Windows
. VirtualBox: running Ubuntu on any platform: Linux, Mac, Windows, Unix
. OpenOffice: productivity suite

http://etailia.com/freestuff.html

BLD Announces New Book – Understanding Personal Styles

2010-01-27T20:14:00.000-08:00

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

CONTACT:
Contact Person: Nigel A. L. Brooks
Company Name: The Business Leadership Development Corporation (BLD)
Phone Number: (602) 291-4595
Email Address: nalb@bldsolutions.com
Website URL – main:
http://www.bldsolutions.com
Website URL – featured:
http://www.understandingpersonalstyles.com/book

ISBN-10: 0979375061
ISBN-13: 978-0979375064

BLD Announces New Book – Understanding Personal Styles

Phoenix, Arizona, January 27, 2010

The Business Leadership Development Corporation (BLD) announces the publication of its book “Understanding Personal Styles – Balancing Inter-Personal Skills with Professional Skills” as a soft cover paperback. The book includes a link to an online personality profile survey. The book is a companion to the Understanding Personal Styles eseminar, which has been available since September 2008.

According to BLD's research, the likelihood of success in business is as much based upon using inter-personal skills effectively as it is based upon using professional skills.

Understanding Personal Styles was developed from BLD's business strategy, organizational reviews, and performance assessment engagements, including experience with both seminars and one-on-one coaching and mentoring sessions.

The book provides a framework for determining the values, attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors of people. It increases the likelihood of success in both social and professional relationships, which is based on the ability to relate, to build a rapport, and to interact with others. As a consequence, an individual can become a better communicator who entertains, informs, convinces, persuades, and negotiates effectively.

“Understanding personal styles is a prerequisite for building a sustainable enterprise because focusing on people-oriented capabilities is just as important as focusing on process and product and/or service-oriented capabilities,” said Nigel A.L. Brooks – BLD's president and author of the book.

The book is aimed at entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, lifestyle business enterprise owners, executives, managers, professionals, and students.

BLD was founded in 1994 and provides strategic management consulting, executive coaching and mentoring, professional training, motivational speaking, and publications. BLD develops entrepreneurial, leadership, and managerial competencies to achieve performance excellence by building sustainable advantage from vision to value.

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Great article

2009-10-20T09:46:00.001-07:00

http://personalgoals4u.blogspot.com/2009/04/self-motivation-leaders-cant-lead.html

Enterpriship Articletter in Digest form - Volume 1

2009-05-23T19:06:00.000-07:00

http://www.enterpriship.com/articles/digest1/

Prescription for the United States...

2009-03-10T19:48:00.000-07:00

...return to basic values and guiding principles...

http://enterpriship.com/articles/lvwt

http://enterpriship.com/articles/vbgd

http://enterpriship.com/articles/vpdbaa

...the lessons start in school...

Great blog from a very talented marketing professional: CiCi Li

2009-03-10T17:41:00.000-07:00

CiCi is a very talented marketing professional who has excellent ideas about the use of video technology in communications, education, professional development, marketing, and public relations:

http://meiyicicili.com

She is helping her clients migrate to the next generation of technology to advance their own businesses...

Great article

2009-02-02T18:21:00.001-08:00

http://it-computer-talk.blogspot.com/2008/12/data-arteries-enabling-business.html

News from BLD

2009-01-19T16:39:00.000-08:00

January 19, 2009

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Enterpriship is the Art and Science of Entrepreneurship, Leadership, and Management

Phoenix, Arizona – January 19, 2009 – Enterpriship is the art and science of entrepreneurship, leadership, and management, according to the author of the “Enterpriship Digest,” a multi-volume series.

Nigel A.L. Brooks, president of Phoenix-based The Business Leadership Development Corporation (BLD), has written two short books in the Enterpriship Digest series.

Brooks is a seasoned management consultant and motivational speaker with over thirty years of experience in working with single entrepreneurs to the Fortune 100 in over twenty countries around the world. He also established and operated the award winning Java Centrale – Metrocenter in the nineties, and held senior positions at American Express, Booz & Company, and Andersen Consulting (now Accenture). Brooks' first entrepreneurial venture was Tornado Enterprises, a publishing company that he established as a teenager in the United Kingdom.

“Enterpriship Digest” is aimed at entrepreneurs, lifestyle business enterprise owners, executives, managers, professionals, students, and others interested in honing their entrepreneurial, leadership, and managerial skills.

The first two volumes in the series each feature 25 articles on topics in response to questions from clients of BLD. BLD was established in 2000 and practices in the aerospace, financial services, information technology, manufacturing and distribution, pharmaceutical, wholesale, retail, and transportation, and government industries.

The articles feature topics such as enterprise formation, marketing and sales, organizational design, process design, team building, and planning and performance measurement.

The word “enterpriship” is derived from management, leadership, enterprise, and entrepreneurship. More volumes are planned in the future.

BLD is a management consulting firm that specializes in business strategy, technology strategy, organizational reviews, and performance assessments.

Contact:
Nigel A.L. Brooks
bld@bldsolutions.com
13835 North Tatum Boulevard, 9-102
Phoenix, Arizona 85032
V: (602) 291-4595

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Great article

2009-01-15T18:53:00.001-08:00

http://blog-strategic-planning.blogspot.com/2008/12/guiding-principles-for-achieving.html

Enterpriship Digest Volume 1 and 2 paperbacks now available

2009-01-12T19:13:00.000-08:00

http://www.amazon.com/Enterpriship-Digest-1-Nigel-Brooks/dp/0979375045

http://www.amazon.com/Enterpriship-Digest-Nigel-L-Brooks/dp/0979375053

Great article

2008-12-22T19:49:00.000-08:00

http://dailybizsolutions.com/what-disciplines-do-entrepreneurs-lifestyle-enterprise-owners-and-executives-really-have-to-know/

Great article

2008-12-21T13:55:00.001-08:00

http://technorati.com/posts/EALe5_FmxTvZJ33cvTibsTSTXpKcHHTde40NNWrF4lI%3D

Great article

2008-12-21T13:43:00.001-08:00

http://bestvideoindia.info/?p=470

Great article

2008-12-21T13:35:00.001-08:00

http://www.mypoints.com/emp/u/mysearch.vm?q=Striving+for+Excellence&st=mypWeb

Great article

2008-12-20T20:36:00.000-08:00

http://it-computer-talk.blogspot.com/2008/12/data-arteries-enabling-business.html

Great article

2008-12-19T13:32:00.001-08:00

http://www.synarticles.com/entrepreneurialism/what-disciplines-do-entrepreneurs-lifestyle-enterprise-owners-executives-really-have-know.html

Enterpriship Digest Volume 2 ebook

2008-12-16T18:31:00.000-08:00

Enterpriship Digest Volume 2 ebook is now available:

http://www.enterpriship.com/marketplace/ed2ebook/

The original Enterpriship Digest has been rebranded as Volume 1:

http://www.enterpriship.com/marketplace/ed1ebook/

Great article

2008-12-14T09:47:00.001-08:00

http://www.smallbusinessace.com/a43465_credo_for_success__the_enterpriship_model_for_entrepreneurship_leadership_and_management

Great article

2008-12-09T17:02:00.001-08:00

http://myteambuilding.wordpress.com/tag/ideas/

On Target

2008-12-09T05:23:00.001-08:00

https://www.target.com/Enterpriship-Digest-Brooks-Nigel-L/dp/0979375037

Great article

2008-12-08T11:12:00.000-08:00

http://www.synarticles.com/expert/nigel-brooks-1591.html

Great article

2008-12-04T17:21:00.000-08:00

http://www.ibizbiz.com/

Thursday, December 4, 2008

Enterpriship Digest - Now Available on Amazon.com

2008-12-02T06:19:00.000-08:00

Enterpriship Digest now available on Createspace.com

2008-11-24T14:37:00.000-08:00

Enterpriship Digest is now available on createspace.com:

http://www.createspace.com/3358884

Enterpriship Digest
By Nigel A.L. Brooks

25 Articles About Entrepreneurship, Leadership, and Management

Publication Date: Nov 24 2008
ISBN/EAN13: 0979375037 / 9780979375033
Page Count: 100
Binding Type: US Trade Paper
Trim Size: 5.25" x 8"
Language: EnglishColor: Black and White
Related Categories: Business & Economics / Management

BLD is now a Walmart affiliate

2008-11-24T14:35:00.000-08:00

BLD, via the etailia.com website, is now an affiliate of Walmart...

http://www.etailia.com/mall.html

CBLD teaching methods

2008-11-23T17:35:00.000-08:00

The Center For Business Leadership (CBLD) teaches programs using integrated systematized intellectual capital that translates mindset into action. This approach blends models for processes, functions, and constituencies that are immediately usable. CBLD stresses breadth of material.

Academic institutions teach programs based upon subject matter areas, and as a consequence stress depth of material.

BLD, CBLD, and Enterpriship

2008-11-23T16:24:00.000-08:00

The Business Leadership Development Corporation (BLD) is a professional services firm that works with entrepreneurs, lifestyle business enterprise owners, executives, and managers, and the enterprises they serve. We develop entrepreneurial, leadership, and managerial competencies to achieve performance excellence by building sustainable advantage from vision to value.

The Center for Business Leadership Development (CBLD) is BLD’s vehicle for delivering both live private and public seminars, and eseminars. CBLD offers The Guide to Business Leadership Development Series, which includes the Introduction to Enterpriship Seminars (Enterpriship Accelerator).

Enterpriship is the process of building enterprises with sustainable advantage, and has a framework of three related disciplines: entrepreneurship, leadership, and management.

Enterpriship is derived from the words: management, leadership, enterprise, and entrepreneurship.

BLD has developed Enterpriship BLDer: a set of capabilities that provide a systematized approach to building enterprises for:

Entrepreneurs/intrapreneurs
Lifestyle business enterprise owners
Executives
Managers
Professionals
and the enterprises they serve

Enterpriship BLDer provides integrated intellectual capital through methodologies, models, and tools. Enterpriship BLDer includes two fundamental models:

The Personal Styles model is defined in terms of four groups: challengers, causals, stabilizers, and visionaries.

The Enterpriship Styles model defines how to translate mindset into action through relationships and order to get results.

Great article

2008-11-23T15:28:00.000-08:00

http://free-anger-management.com/796/principles-of-self-management-strengthening-anticipation-deliberation-and-stress-tolerance/

Great article

2008-11-21T20:01:00.001-08:00

http://www.submiter.org/content/constituencies-enterprises-cant-exist-without-them-1324

Great article

2008-11-21T19:41:00.001-08:00

http://www.submiter.org/content/appointed-and-emergent-leaders-competence-commitment-and-respect-270

Great article

2008-11-18T07:14:00.001-08:00

http://infobisnis-qwonk.blogspot.com/2008/11/enterprise-styles-lifestyle-and.html

Great link

2008-11-15T10:42:00.001-08:00

http://drieddry.info/?p=293

Great article

2008-11-15T10:31:00.001-08:00

http://art-supplies-plus.com/oilpaintingtechniques/art-and-artist/architecting-processes-from-beginning-to-end.html

Great link

2008-11-15T10:29:00.000-08:00

http://mckieweb.com/clickfeed.asp?url=http%3A%2F%2Fezinearticles%2Ecom%2F%3FThe%2DBasic%2DLanguage%2Dof%2DValue%26id%3D1598670&id=100

Great Blogpost

2008-11-13T14:33:00.001-08:00

http://business-sales-management-gw.blogspot.com/2008/10/association-opportunity-incentives-and.html

Great article

2008-11-13T14:29:00.001-08:00

http://www.accountingtips4you.com/2008/11/12/understanding-financial-managerial-and-regulatory-accounting-and-reporting-concepts/

Great Blogpost

2008-11-13T08:44:00.001-08:00

http://www.build-financial-wealth-yourself.drewryonline.net/?p=305

Great article

2008-11-02T14:45:00.001-08:00

http://www.newstin.co.uk/tag/uk/81359847

Enterpriship Digest coming soon to createspace.com

2008-11-02T14:24:00.000-08:00

http://www.createspace.com/3358884

Great Post

2008-11-01T09:14:00.000-07:00

http://business-human-resources-gw.blogspot.com/2008/10/understanding-individual-competencies.html

Great Post

2008-11-01T09:13:00.001-07:00

http://business-human-resources-gw.blogspot.com/2008/10/living-values-walking-talk.html

Enterpriship Digest

2008-10-31T20:59:00.000-07:00

Launched the Enterpriship Digest - 25 articles about entrepreneurship, leadership, and management.

www.enterpriship.com/marketplace/ed1ebook

Individual Competencies

2008-10-12T18:51:00.000-07:00

Launched individualcompetencies.com

http://www.individualcompetencies.com

Individual Competencies Assessment

2008-10-05T17:49:00.001-07:00

Launched Individual Competencies Assessment:

www.enterpriship.com/marketplace/ica

UPS Omnibus three product set

2008-10-04T15:25:00.000-07:00

Launched the UPS Omnibus three product set - best value for Understanding Personal Styles.

Includes the UPS Omnibus edition plus From Vision To Value earticle and
Enterpriship Competencies Assessment as one package...

Launched the UPS Omnibus edition

2008-10-03T15:44:00.000-07:00

The omnibus edition of Understanding Personal Styles is now available at

http://www.enterpreship.com/marketplace/upsomb

The omnibus edition contains:

. The seminar movies in medium format and iPhone format
. Unlimited access to the profile survey
. ebook
. audiobook
. epresentation
. ereference

Understanding Personal Styles Overview

2008-10-01T16:46:00.001-07:00

Launched the mini ebook as a promotional tool: Understanding Personal Styles Overview

www.understandingpersonalstyles.org

The Language of Value

2008-09-29T17:31:00.000-07:00

All BLD earticles and ebooks that are contain a glossary of terms or terminology section are linked to The Language Of Value, which provides access to the latest definitions.

Enterpriship Competencies Assessment

2008-09-29T17:30:00.000-07:00

Launched the Enterpriship Competencies Assessment via www.fromvisiontovalue.com

Enterpriship Blog

2008-09-28T12:30:00.000-07:00

The Enterpriship blog has been launched - this blog will be used for mini articles:

http://www.enterpriship.com/blog

Technology Wizardry - Vision and Reality

2008-09-27T11:08:00.000-07:00

Launched the ebook: Technology Wizardry - Vision and Reality - an inspirational message to entrepreneurial graduates in technology.

http://www.enterpriship.com/marketplace/twvrebook

From Vision To Value: Building Sustainable Advantage

2008-09-26T10:43:00.000-07:00

Launched the article:

From Vision To Value: Building Sustainable Advantage

www.enterpriship.com/marketplace/fvtvbsaeart

etaila.com/amazon

2008-09-25T06:33:00.000-07:00

Launched the amazon bookstore on etailia.com:

http://www.etailia.com/amazon

The amazon bookstore contains books that are referenced in BLD seminars and publications.

Understanding Personal Styles

2008-09-20T13:37:00.000-07:00

Launched the enterprise edition of Understanding Personal Styles for small, medium and large businesses:

www.understandingpersonalstyles.com/enterprise

Understanding Personal Styles

2008-09-19T11:48:00.000-07:00

Access to the Profile Survey is available at:

www.enterpriship.com/marketplace/upsesurvey

Understanding Personal Styles

2008-09-18T17:46:00.000-07:00

The audio book Understanding Personal Styles is now available at:

www.enterpriship.com/marketplace/upsaudiobook

BLD's etail store: etailia.com

2008-09-16T17:26:00.000-07:00

Launched www.etailia.com - the etail site of The Business Leadership Development Corporation.

Technology platform

2008-09-16T13:30:00.000-07:00

The products of The Business Leadership Development Corporation and The Center For Business Leadership Development are developed and hosted using the following technologies:

. Client side:

- Apple Macintosh MacBook Pro
- Ubuntu Linux
- Parallels/Virtual Box
- OpenOffice/NeoOffice
- GIMP
- iWeb
- RapidWeaver
- Garageband
- iMovie

. Server side - LAMP

- Linux
- Apache
- MySQL
- PHP