Big Vision, Small Business

While most of the business world worships size and constant growth, Big Vision, Small Business celebrates the art—and power—of small. Based on interviews with more than seventy small-business owners and on her own experiences as a successful small-business entrepreneur, Jamie Walters shows how a business can stay small and remain vital, healthy, and rewarding.

If you long to run a successful, socially conscious enterprise as one element of a fulfilling personal life, Big Vision, Small Business shows you how. Covering growth options and small-enterprise advantages, inspired visioning, communication, and right-relationship, mindset issues and expectation management, and wisdom and mastery practices, Big Vision, Small Business is a must-read for every entrepreneur and futurist.Preface: The Great Power of Small Enterprise
Acknowledgments

SECTION ONE:
Key No. 1: There’s More Than One Way to Define Growth
Chapter 1: Finding Quality in the Land of Quantity
Chapter 2: Appreciating the Power of Small Enterprise
Chapter 3: Which is Better, Big or Small?
Chapter 4: Moving from Quantitative Growth to Qualitative Evolution
Chapter 5: Profiles in Growth

SECTION TWO:
Key No. 2: To Live Large, You Have to Vision Big
Chapter 6: Vision in the Smallest Enterprises
Chapter 7: Twelve Priorities of Big-Vision Small Businesses
Chapter 8: The Guiding Vision
Chapter 9: Vision Profile: The Cat Doctor
Chapter 10: To Plan or Not to Plan
Chapter 11: Approaches to Visioning and Planning

SECTION THREE:
Key No. 3: Right Relationship Is a Big-Vision Craft
Chapter 12: Right Relationship as a Pathway for Qualitative Growth
Chapter 13: Golden Rules for Right Relationships
Chapter 14: Creating Right Relationships with Employees
Chapter 15: Maintaining Right Relationships with Employees
Chapter 16: Creating Right Relationships with Customers
Chapter 17: Maintaining Right Relationships with Customers

SECTION FOUR:
Key No. 4: To Live from the Source, Replenish the Well
Chapter 18: Wisdom and Mastery in Business
Chapter 19: Money and Risk
Chapter 20: Competition
Chapter 21: Success and Failure
Chapter 22: Time and Balance
Chapter 23: Wisdom and Mastery Practices

Parting Thoughts

Notes
Bibliography and Reading Guide
Index
About the AuthorJamie S. Walters is founder of Ivy Sea, Inc., a "small size, big impact" organizational consulting firm. The firm's award-winning public service website, Ivy Sea Online, (www.ivysea.com) has been recognized by Harvard Business School, About.com, Entrepreneur's Edge, The CEO Refresher, Edu-Leadership, and others as one of the best Internet sites for small-enterprise owners, entrepreneurs, and organizational leaders.