Fire in the Belly: An Exploration of the Entrepreneurial Spirit
Yanky Fachler
Yanky Fachler claims that many Start Your Own Business programmes are based on the faulty premise that the decision to be your own boss is straightforward and that the difficult part is to effectively and successfully run your own business. That’s why the focus of these programmes is almost exclusively on skills.
In Fire in the Belly: An Exploration of the Entrepreneurial Spirit, Fachler shows that the critical stage in the entrepreneurial process is the realisation that you want to leave the security of paid employment and go out on your own. Once that decision has been taken, he says, anyone of average intelligence should be capable of mastering the necessary business skills.
The theme of the book is that before you go and start your own business, you have to successfully navigate the mental transition from the world of employment – the ladder world - to the entrepreneurial world.
Fire in the Belly is packed with case studies, quotations and anecdotes, much of it based on the entrepreneurial workshops that the author conducts in Ireland and abroad.
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April 2001
€15, pb
ISBN 1-86076-210-7
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