Company of One: Why Staying Small is the Next Big Thing for Busine

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I am suscribed at Paul Jarvis blog and I get an email from him every now and then. He has a simple, efficient and cool take on bussines, stylelife and professional evolution in a personal and bussines level. I really enjoy his words as they give me hope and energy to keep fighting for my dream! Thanks Paul

I loved Company of One. It gave me a new perspective on how to think my one-man business and how to deal with pressure to scale clients, revenue, and employees all the time. I highly recommend for people who work well on their own, already have a good deal of clients and it's looking for a next step or even better the right next step.

I am half way through this book but would give it 5 stars even at this stage because it is truly standing out as a game changer in the business/start up/make money genre. Most books and guidance on starting out in commerce/business are about scaling up in one form or another. This one goes completely against the grain and author Paul Jarvis gently leads you through the whys and hows of such a rationale. His approach is thoughtful rather than directive and allows the reader to contemplate, with many examples, the pros and cons of organically growing a business within flexible boundaries that are conceived from the start. It is a great read for someone starting out and bootstrapping their way in business but also very good for business owners, managers, corporate directors and CEOs who have been seduced by the blue sky approach to growth and are now well and truly on a speeding gravy train that could crash out of control. Mr Jarvis clearly describes the harder fall that can result from this kind of over scaling. True, an ambitiously scaling business might just fly but there are many other problems and downsides that come with that which may not necessarily suit the owners, directors, employees or customers. Importantly, scaling up big time with all the associated issues it brings may not suit the company or organisation’s raison d’être, mission or ethos. This book is a discussion on humility in business- a condition which is not common and something which we can all learn from.

Buen material con referencias a otras obras que coinciden en las ideas de lo que hace a una empresa operada por una sola persona un éxito, haciendo énfasis en el por qué ser pequeño tiene sus ventajas sobre los competidores grandes. No es una guía "paso a paso" de cómo iniciar un negocio, es una guía en las metas y operación que los empresarios deberían seguir para iniciar o conducir su pequeño negocio al éxito, y lograr sobresalir en un mercado ya saturado de "microempresarios". Las ideas no son "innovadoras", y probablemente para este momento ya estén lejos de ser una "revolución" para cualquier negocio, pero si son una guía bastante buena si tienen dudas en cómo iniciar u operar tu empresa, para no llegar a la carrera empresarial con "desventaja" .

Very good book