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    Dynamic Business Duos: Succeed Like a Superhero in Your Own Business With a Pow!er Partner
    Dynamic Business Duos: Succeed Like a Superhero in Your Own Business With a Pow!er Partner
    Dynamic Business Duos: Succeed Like a Superhero in Your Own Business With a Pow!er Partner
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    Dynamic Business Duos: Succeed Like a Superhero in Your Own Business With a Pow!er Partner

    By Sally Anders

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    Learn to create a new kind of partnership for your small or home-based business with all of the advantages of a traditional business partnership – accountability, honest feedback, shared goals – and none of the discord caused by splitting the money, the workload and the glory (or blame). Plus, keep 100% of your own profits! 22 Workouts help build your own unique Dynamic Duo and your success.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSally Anders
    Release dateMay 27, 2010
    ISBN9781452404776
    Dynamic Business Duos: Succeed Like a Superhero in Your Own Business With a Pow!er Partner

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      Dynamic Business Duos - Sally Anders

      What others are saying about Dynamic Business Duos:

      Sally has defined a simple step-by-step process for success that works. In complete Sally Anders style -- a fun read that had me laughing out loud.

      Mary Elizabeth Murphy, 2005 North Carolina SBA Women in Business Champion of the Year.

      My Pow!er Partner helped keep me on track and acutely aware that success in the art of acting depends on success in the business of acting.

      Andrea Anders, Actor, Broadway, movies and television

      Dynamic Business Duos:

      Succeed Like A Superhero

      In Your Own Business

      With A Pow!er Partner

      Sally Anders

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2010 Sally Anders

      This book is available in print at http://www.DynamicBusinessDuos.com

      This book was originally published and is available as a print book by MavenMark Books, LLC

      under ISBN 978-159598-087-8.

      Smashwords Edition License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person. If you're reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      This book was designed to help cultivate new thinking around business partnerships. It presents one possibility. I am sure there are many variations and I did not attempt to discover and share any others in this text. I encourage you to search out many different business partnership models until you find the one, or the combination of models, that fits your specific business needs.

      A Dynamic Business Duo Pow!er Partnership gets its power from its partners, and how they apply the lessons offered here. Therefore, I, the author, offer no guarantees that this process will work for you. I accept no liability or responsibility for the results you get based on this book.

      Dynamic Business Duos : Succeed Like a Superhero in Your Own Business With a Pow!er Partner / Sally Anders.

      1. Strategic alliances (Business) 2. Partnership. 3. Business networks. 4. Success in business. 5. Interpersonal relations. I. Title.

      * * * *

      Table of Contents:

      Foreword

      Preface

      > Why This Book?

      > What Is a Dynamic Business Duo Pow!er Partnership?

      > My Own Business Story

      > How This Book Works

      >The Dynamic Business Duo Workouts

      Chapter 1: Being in Business for Yourself

      > A Traditional Business Partner verses a Dynamic Duo

      => Workout 1 -- Define Your Perfect Traditional Business Partner

      > How I Found My Dynamic Duo Pow!er Partner and Why Our Relationship Worked

      > What Is A Pow!er Partner?

      > Why Would Someone Want YOU as a Pow!er Partner?

      => Workout 2 -- What Do You Bring to a Pow!er Partnership?

      > What Your Pow!er Partner Is Not

      > Whatever You Want to Accomplish: Together We're Better!

      > What Puts the POW! into a Pow!er Partnership?

      > Equality

      > Commitment

      > Fear and Success

      > Fear of Success

      > Honesty

      > Timing

      > Positive Partner Chemistry

      > Investing Time in a Dynamic Duo Pays Huge Dividends

      > You Need Support in More than Your Panty Hose

      > Identify Your People

      => Workout 3 -- Assembling Your A Team of Advisors

      > How to Use the Skills of Your People

      > Risk -- Reaching for Super-Success Risks Total Failure

      => Workout 4 -- Best Boss

      > Facing the Specter of Your Own Limitations

      => Workout 5 -- Excuses, Excuses!

      > Chapter 2: Know Your Superpowers!

      > A Great Partnership Begins with You!

      > Understand Everyone Better with DISC -- Including You!

      > A Strength Overused Becomes a Weakness -- Know Yours

      > We All Use a Little of Everything!

      => Workout 6 -- Identifying Your DISC Style

      > Two Key, Real-World DISC Strategies

      > Working with Your Pow!er Partner's DISC Style

      => Workout 7 -- You, Your Partner, Your Partnership, and DISC

      => Workout 8 -- Further Define Your Style, Your Commitment, Your Success

      Chapter 3: Use Your Superhero Vision to Zap Obstacles

      > Know What You Want:

      > Be Very Clear About Your Goals

      => Workout 9 -- What Ultimate Success Looks Like to You

      > Forget the Ducks -- Get Your Whys in a Row

      > Why It's Not the Money

      => Workout 10 -- Get Your Whys in a Row and Well Defined

      > Taking the Risk is Terrifying

      => Workout 11 -- Disarming the Fear Factor

      => Workout 12 -- Fear of Success? Who, Me?

      > Separating Failures, Mistakes, and New Choices

      > Failures

      > Mistakes

      > New Choices

      => Workout 13 -- Mistakes You Can Truly Call Your Own

      > A Basic Business Plan

      => Workout 14 -- Write Your Plan for Success

      Chapter 4: Identify Potential Pow!er Partners

      > Choose Your Partner as if Your Professional Life Depends on It

      > DISC Strategies Will Hasten Great Partner Connection

      => Workout 15 -- Creating Your Perfect Pow!er Partner

      Chapter 5: Designing and Sustaining Your Own Dynamic Duo Pow!er Partnership

      > A Few Strategies to Keep the POW! in Pow!er Partnerships

      > Begin With Dynamic Ground Rules

      => Workout 16 -- Create Your Ground Rules

      > Meeting Time Is Sacred

      > Can You Have Virtual Meetings?

      > Where to Meet?

      > When to Meet?

      > How Often?

      => Workout 17 -- Design Your Dynamic Duo Meetings

      > Accountability -- The Pow!er in This Partnership

      > Partners Must Find Their Own Answers

      => Workout 18 -- Holding Each Other Accountable

      > Is It Support or Handholding?

      => Workout 19 -- Nip the Handholding

      > Active Listening Skills Fuel the Pow!er!

      > Celebration Time!

      => Workout 20 -- Define What Celebration Means to You

      Chapter 6: Pow!er Partnering for Other Goals

      > Does Pow!er Partnering Work with Other Goals?

      > The Business of Art

      > Finding Your Goal(s) Might Be the Goal

      > Heading into New Territory

      > Age and Distance Are Not Obstacles

      => Workout 21-- Other Areas for a Dynamic Duo

      Chapter 7: Beginning with the End in Mind

      > When Your Pow!er Partner Isn't Performing

      > When Your Own Performance Is an Embarrassment

      > Develop an Ending Strategy at the Beginning

      => Workout 22 -- Define Your Ending Strategy

      > A Few Final Words About Pow!er Partnerships

      => A Final Workout

      Appendix: A Basic Business Plan

      Acknowledgments

      Resources: Websites, Recommended Reading

      About the Author

      * * * *

      Foreword

      If I had known about Pow!er Partnerships when I was first starting Laurel and Associates, Ltd. twenty-five years ago, there is no telling how much further along the company and I would be today. It would have been so useful to have had a power partner who listened to my goals and dreams, offered practical advice and suggestions, and kept me on track and moving forward. It would also have been incredibly validating to recognize that my knowledge and skills were just as useful to my partner.

      It is reassuring to learn that independent sole practitioners do not have to go it alone anymore, thanks to this book. Many entrepreneurs have limited funds when they start out. They also have no desire to deal with the complexity of creating formal legal partnerships. That is why it is such a great idea to informally pair up and essentially barter our expertise for our mutual benefit.

      A power partnership is such a simple and practical solution to the problem of entrepreneurs who cannot possibly have all the skills, experience and social networks that they need to be successful. What I particularly appreciate about this book is that its step-by-step approach is tempered by examples of real world successes and failures. You can tell that the writer has lived through the ups and downs of finding and working with her own power partners, and we readers benefit from her experience.

      Power partnerships require people. However, people often have different personalities, goals, communication styles, and degrees of commitment. This book wisely examines the strengths and challenges of partnering and communicating with different personalities. It also makes the important point that a power partnership needs to consist of two people who have the same commitment to their businesses.

      Without a shared level of commitment, power partnerships are doomed to fail. First, because it is easy to become resentful if only one person is doing all the work. Second, because a significant key to an effective power partnership is frequent meetings to set individual goals and then hold each other accountable for achieving those goals. As a workplace learning and performance consultant, I have seen firsthand how this lack of a shared commitment in a normal partnership can bring a business to its knees.

      Now that I know how to create and maintain an effective power partnership, and avoid the possible pitfalls, I can see all the ways it will help me strengthen my business. As a sole practitioner, it is easy to get distracted from important business-building goals. Quite honestly, it will be wonderful to have someone in my corner who wants me to succeed, who can provide complementary business skills, and who will strongly encourage me to take the necessary steps to accomplish my goals.

      As a single parent, I can also see the value of having a power partnership for my personal life!

      Luckily, the author provides good resources and worksheets on her website to help us along. Whether our power partnerships are focused on our businesses or on our personal lives, the author has set us up for success. For that, I am very grateful!

      Deborah Spring Laurel, President

      Laurel and Associates, Ltd.

      Building the Skills for Your Success

      Preface

      Why This Book?

      With today's advancing technology, shaky world economy, and massive corporate layoffs, more and more people are starting their own businesses, often working alone and from home. If you have a computer and a phone line, you can conduct business around the world from your home office, spare bedroom, basement, or garage. With WiFi and a cell phone, you don't even need a landline, just a handy coffee shop or bookstore. Today's technology makes it easy and affordable for small or micro-businesses to appear much larger than they are. This makes it possible to land accounts that small or home-based businesses in times past could only dream about! An increasing number of Americans -- and people all over the world -- are harnessing technology and starting their own, often one-person, businesses in hopes of:

      * Having more fun

      * Having more time for family

      * Having more control of their personal and professional lives

      * Having more opportunities to exercise their own values in the marketplace

      * Increasing personal and professional satisfaction and growth

      * Changing or saving the world!

      * Having a more balanced life

      * Making more money

      * In short -- having more choices and more freedom!

      Whatever your reason(s) for wanting to go out on your own, the trend away from huge corporations toward small business is real. Speaking from experience, however, once you've been in business for yourself for a while, the structured world of the real job with regular paychecks, regular hours, built-in support teams, and organizational goals can begin to look pretty good. Not to mention a little gossip around the water cooler.

      This book was designed to help you create a Dynamic Duo, a team of two, a Pow!er Partnership, to give you many of the things you may miss about the world of real jobs, without having to put up with all the baggage that made you decide to leave that world in the first place.

      What Is A Dynamic Business Duo Pow!er Partnership?

      A Dynamic Duo Pow!er Partnership is a new business relationship model with no legal or financial ties. This special relationship is designed to make up for all of those wonderful people who supported your success in the world of the real job. People who cared about the quantity and the quality of the work you produced. People who sometimes irritated you to higher levels of performance than you may have thought you could achieve. People who saw the best in you when maybe you saw only lack in yourself. People who

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