Flying Solo: How to Go It Alone in Business

By Sam Leader and Robert Gerrish

The complete guide to breaking out on your own in business, this work gives you the tools you need to plan and start your own solo venture, or totally overhaul and rejuvenate one that's been ticking... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1741144248
• ISBN13: 9781741144246
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: Allen & Unwin Academic
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

Great Resource!

Great resource, filled with hints and tips, to keep the Solopreneur on track and moving forward!

The NEW solo entrepreneur's bible!

Clearly this book is for solo entrepreneurs! And right from the beginning, you know that this book is for lifestyle entrepreneurs like ourselves who want our work to fit our life. Here's a quote from page 7: "It ain't what you do, it's the way that you do it." While this book is rooted in the practicalities of running a solo business, it is also inspiring and motivational as it tackles such issues as the importance of attitude, how to embrace uncertainty, and the criticality of staying aligned with your passions in designing your work. My favorite quote: "Soloists simply cannot afford to separate life from work and need to stop obsessing about finding *balance between* the two and instead focus on finding *harmony within* the two." This book is a delight! Cheerful and upbeat, you can almost hear the cheerleading behind the words. Easy to read and well-laid out, the book includes helpful (but not overwhelming) exercises to get you on the right path. For a long time now I've considered Free Agent Nation, by Daniel Pink, to be the soloist's bible. While I still consider it to be a groundbreaking book, I think I will shift to Flying Solo as my recommended read for aspiring and new solo entrepreneurs, or those who may have lost site of the reason they went solo in the first place.

An easy read, with practical tips & advice

An enjoyable, easy to read book which had plenty of tips. Even though I am a 10 year veretan of 'going solo', it was good to be reminded of a lot of the simple things that get forgotten when you are 'heads down' in your own business. I recommend anyone who is thinking of starting a solo business (or anyone who has been running one for a while) to pick up this book and read it.

Going it alone a simple explanation

This book is a simple no nonsense explanation of the ups, the downs and bits in between for those going it alone like me. It is a great read for those that are doing, those that are thinking of doing and those that procrastinate about doing it... David

Keep flying

This book brings takes a realistic and encouraging look at working for yourself and the mentality needed to build your business. Clearly written style, great flow - Thanks Robert and Sam!!