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Small Business is Like a Bunch of Bananas:
You Have to Remove the Peels to Get to the Good Stuff!

TABLE OF CONTENTS

On Facing Challenges: Small Business Is Like a Bunch of Bananas

On Leadership: The Leadership Coin

On Change: Don’t Just Make Changes—Experiment

On Success: Enjoy the Whole Trip

On Customer Service: Become the Service Coin of the Realm

On Impossibility: Bumblebees and Entrepreneurs Want to Fly

On Decision Making: Identify Your Break Point

On Consciousness: Conscious or Unconscious?

On Adapting: Adapt or Become Extinct

On Doubt: Victory Over Doubt

On Tenacity: The Right Stuff

On Taking Risks: Risk What You Know

On Wisdom: Slow Down—Listen to Your Wisdom

On Management: Focus on Your Gauges

On Entrepreneurialism: Spirit and Heart

On Knowledge: Knowledge Makes You Smile

On Stumbling: Looking Up from the Mud

On Laughter: Go Ahead—Laugh at Yourself

On Ideas: Sprout an Idea Seed

On Teamwork: On Top of a Fence Post

On Individuality: Use Your Uniqueness

On Endurance: Focus Forward

On Aspirations: Your Personal Horizon

On Mistakes: "Dear" Mistakes

On Strength: Einstein and Small Business

On Opportunities: How Is Your Tractor Business?

On Worry: Tip Your Mental "In" Basket

On Happiness: Happiness2

On Selflessness: Make a Difference to Just One

On Dreams: Small Business Dreams

On Contribution: Small Business’s Invisible Hand

On Faith: Will and Faith

On Work: Work = Life

On Perseverance: Passion and Panic

On Failure: Failure—An Abiding Part of Life

On Entrepreneurial Spirit: Lean Liberty—Fat Slavery

On Vision: Pushing the Envelope

On Paradigms: "86" Your Filters

On Life’s Lessons: Your Second Wind

On Values: Core Entrepreneurial Values

On Courage: Sailing the Entrepreneurial Seas

On Refusing To Surrender: "I Have Not Yet Begun to Fight"

On Creativity: Coloring Outside the Lines

On Priorities: Priority Is an Aggressive Word

On Learning: Learning Should be Lifelong

On Commitment: Being First

On Attitude: Attitude Is Everything

On Limitations: Three Dimensional Entrepreneurialism

On Popular Delusions: Far from the Madness of Crowds

On Purifying Vision: Visionary Metallurgy

On Peace: Technology Peace Dividend

On Patriotism: Independence Day in America

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