Steve Gottry – författare

Do you own or plan to own a small business?

Do you work for a small business and desire to better understand your boss? Do you know someone who owns a business and wants to be stronger, more focused, and more successful?

This is the book for you.

The truth is that many business books offer a lot of wonderful sounding theories, but they have little practical application in the real world of small business. Common Sense Business is full of life-and-death ideas. Follow Steve Gottry''s advice and your business will live and thrive. Ignore it and your business could founder or die. Benefit from Gottry''s experience as an entrepreneur who grew a hugely successful media agency, experienced a harrowing business failure, then rebounded with a new business and a fresh start on life.

Common Sense Business tells you how to succeed throughout every phase of the small business life cycle -- from starting to operating, growing, and even closing down a business. No matter the state of the economy or the maturity of your business, you will find winning solutions to the questions and situations you face every day. Steve Gottry will help you understand yourself; your employees, customers, and vendors; and how people come together to form a successful business. You will learn how to maximize your business''s assets and how to ward off those threats that could eat away at your resources and peace of mind, including debt, sloppiness, addiction, and fear. Warm, honest, funny, and factual, entrepreneur Steve Gottry tells the whole truth about successfully managing a business through good times and bad.

The author of the phenomenal New York Times bestselling classic The One-Minute® Manager explores one of the most common and insidious problems plaguing the workplace—procrastination.

In every workplace, in every industry, lurks a diabolical career killer. Procrastination. In this latest addition to his bestselling series, Ken Blanchard tackles this problem head on, offering practical strategies any professional can immediately put into practice to improve his or her performance. In The On-Time Manager, he stells the story of Bob, a typical middle manager who tends to puts things off until the last minute. As a result, he misses deadlines because his lack of focus causes him to accomplish all the meaningless tasks before he can get to the important things. Like many professionals, Bob rationalizes, justifies, and tries to explain. With his trademark clarity and vision, Blanchard shows how Bob learns to overcome his problem transforming himself from a Last-Minute manager into a productive On-Time manager.

You have something no one else in the entire world has . . . your personal life story. Perhaps telling it has been a dream of yours for years, or maybe seeing the title has given you the inspiration. Whatever the reason, this book will help you write your life story in just 90 days, while spending only 22 minutes per day.Why write your story? Wouldn’t you like to share your memories with those you love today along with all future generations? Don’t you ever wish that you knew more about your grandparents, great-grandparents and maybe even own parents? What was their life like? What were their hopes and dreams? How are you like them? What knowledge would they have passed on to make your life easier?This book is about what you will impart to present and future gen¬erations. It was written in a way that will help you recall the people and events in your life who contributed to the person you are today. In order to jog your memory, you will be answering questions and learning inter¬esting tricks that will help uncomplicate the writing process.Since the book will be based on your memories, you may want to grab your journals, your photo albums, and your memory box—most likely stuffed with old report cards, diplomas, newspaper clippings and souve-nirs. These will help as you think back on your life and the memorable moments in it. Recording your wisdom, experiences, and memories for all future generations is a gift that only you can give. Go from blank spaces to great pages in just 90 days!

WRITE YOUR FIRST BOOK IN JUST 90 DAYS!Admit it. You want to write a book. Maybe this is a new idea that just occurred to you, or perhaps it’s something you’ve thought about for some time. Either way, once you begin the process, you will love it! You might even become obsessed with writing.And no, it most likely won’t be a 300-page New York Times bestseller that you’ll create in only 90 days, but you will be able to write an actual 50 to 100-page book, working only 7 minutes per day. Perhaps you’ll want to write for a bit longer at each session. It’s totally up to you…your decision, your desire, your dedication and your determination to write, write and write some more.Do you want to tell your life story? What a perfect gift to your children or grandchildren! Maybe you want to share what you’ve learned about life and convey your vision and your values. Perhaps you want to design your own characters and create a story to place them in. Either way, when you’ve finished your book, you’ll be so proud of what you’ve accomplished. You can inspire your readers towards a higher purpose, heal the pain they are experiencing through a story of triumph over adversity, or make them forget their own problems as you take them on a magical journey you’ve created in your mind.So grab your pencil and get ready to fill in the blanks to create a writing plan for your story that you can soon share with the world!

Imagine this! You sell a “spec” screenplay to a major Hollywood studio. Maybe this is a new idea that just occurred to you, or perhaps it’s some¬thing you’ve thought about for some time. Of course you realize that hundreds of thousands of books are published every year but fewer mov¬ies are produced and a self-produced movie is rare. But fortunately for aspiring screenwriters there are many newer entities buying and making original motion pictures today, including Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, and the History Channel.If you want to compete with established screenwriters you’ll have to STUDY, WORK HARD, and NEVER GIVE UP. You’ll need HONEST CRITICS and possibly a WRITING PARTNER. But once you begin the process, you will love it! You’ll feel energized and who knows, you might even become obsessed with writing. Perhaps you want to share what you’ve learned about life and your beliefs or perhaps you want to design your own characters and create a story to place them in. Either way, when you’ve finished you will be so proud of what you’ve accomplished.So grab this book and your diary or journal, your laptop, a tablet or a few blank sheets of paper. Find a quiet place to work, pour yourself a liquid refreshment, and start to fill in the blanks. You can start over as many times as you want. Just keep writing and get ready to share your screenplay with the world!