Synopses & Reviews
Praise for Bounce!"Bounce ! will transform fears into confidence and define your own brand of success. Brilliant!"
—DR. JOE VITALE, author of The Attractor Factor
"Moltz shows us that when we recognize failure as simply part of any business experience and approach it with humility and endurance, we can all have the true confidence we need for future success."
—MICKEY KONSON, Vice President, Small Business Solutions, Capital One
"Bounce! is about how to build long-term business confidence through success and failure. Moltz captures the essence of resiliency by helping businesspeople learn from all of the business outcomes they experience over their career."
—ALAN A. BROWN, Executive Vice President, Nuveen Investments
"Thank you, Barry Moltz, for getting past the 'you can turn it around' cheerleading and the 'failure is your teacher' balms that are supposed to somehow ease our pain when we hit bottom in spite of our best efforts. Thank you for taking a hard, honest, and often humorous look at failure for what it really is, and most of all for providing some real practical advice for getting through it."
—SCOTT ALLEN, About.com, A New York Times Company
"Read this book—twice. Then give it away. Because you will forever know how to bounce with any challenge, crisis, or failure. In fact, this book really is about your next great success."
—MICHAEL PORT, author of Book Yourself Solid
"Can you Bounce? This is the book about the inevitable failures we all will experience and how we can best survive them. Moltz offers no false hope . . . just real tools for developing the resilience needed for sustained success."
—STEVEN S. LITTLE, author of the bestseller The 7 Irrefutable Rules of Small Business Growth
"Afraid of failure? Just Bounce!"
—DANIEL H. PINK, author of A Whole New Mind
Synopsis
“ Failure is not an option.” It’ s a mantra that is repeated in sales meetings, board rooms and planning sessions in businesses all over the world. And it’ s one of the biggest lies of all time, as well as one of the biggest problems in business today. The most successful entrepreneurs and corporate leaders know that failure is good. Failure teaches us like no other opportunity can. It was exactly this concept that helped Barry Moltz realize that while he doesn’ t have a magic trick, he does have quite a bit of learned experience when it comes to surviving failure. He chose to accept failure as a normal (and possibly inevitable) part of the business process, and has over the last 20 years developed a process that allows him to make better decisions (thus avoiding some failures) and— perhaps more importantly— provides him the tools and business confidence to keep going.
In the text, Moltz demonstrates 4 foundations for developing true business confidence:
1. Embrace Failure When It Happens: Never set out expecting to fail, but recognize and accept that failures will almost certainly come at one time or another.
2. Develop Greatness through Humility: While stereotypical business leaders are typically pictured as filled with bravado and arrogance, Moltz maintains that humility is a far more effective trait to have.
3. Adopt a New View: The most successful business leaders view failure as a different kind of success. Moltz gives examples of business leaders who have developed this alternative approach to processing failure.
4. Develop the “ Resiliency Spring” This critical trait, the ability to bounce backfrom adversity, is the difference between people who process and learn from failure and those who pack their tents and go home.
Synopsis
Conventional business wisdom tells us that there is always something to learn from failure. Not true, says Barry Moltz. Sometimes it just stinks! Failure that offers no real learning value becomes a big jolt to the basic business belief system. Both success and failure are simply outcomes in the lifecycle of business where repetition is inevitable and overall process matters far more than any single event or outcome. Moltz demonstrates that developing the resiliency to "bounce" through these cycles determines who ultimately will succeed. Using real life business examples, he shows that with true business confidence, we can face our fears, let go of shame and failures, use all our choices, be better risk-takers, and define our own brand of success.
Barry J. Moltz(Chicago, IL) has founded and run businesses with a great deal of success and failure for more than 15 years. After successfully selling his last operating business, Barry founded an angel investor group and an angel fund, is a former member of the Advisory Board of the Angel Capital Education Foundation, and has been elected to the Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame. He is currently a business consultant and an internationally acclaimed speaker.
Synopsis
Conventional business wisdom tells you that there’s always something to learn from failure. Not true, says Barry Moltz. Sometimes, failure just stinks. Bounce! explains how success and failure are simply normal outcomes in the regular lifecycle of a business and that process over the long term matters far more than individual outcomes. This book shows you how to build a business that can “bounce” through these cycles for long-term success. If you run a business, better make it Bounce!
Synopsis
Bounce! is about developing confidence, but not just any sort of confidence. It's about developing the kind of true business confidence that prepares you for both failure and success.
But this is not a book about coming back from failure.
Comeback books have been written many times before. The comeback is romanticized in society and totally overrated. In Bounce!, you'll learn about accepting failure as a normal part of the process even when there isn't something to learn from it. Failure that offers no real learning value jolts the business belief system.
In Bounce!, entrepreneur and business owner Barry Moltz explains that both success and failure are simply outcomes in the normal life cycle of businessa life cycle in which overall process matters far more than any single event or outcome. Great businesses are those that develop the resiliency to bounce through these cycles to succeed over the long term. Using a blend of personal experience and firsthand interviews with business leaders, Moltz shares the practical tools and techniques that every business needs to survive the cycle of ups and downs. In Bounce!, you'll learn the "building bands" for true business confidence, including:
Using humility to "right size" your ego
Making fear fly in formation
Using choices to embrace failure when it happens
The art of more effective risk-taking
How process trumps outcome
Setting patient goals to establish your own scorecard
Creating your own brand of success
Bounce! lets you move forward from any event, situation, or outcomegood or badto the next place where a decision can be made based on the choices currently available to you. Bounce! allows us to be passionately excited and intensely enthusiastic about our business and our lives.
About the Author
Barry J. Moltz has founded and run busi-nesses with a great deal of success and failure for more than fifteen years. After successfully selling his last operating business, he founded an angel investor group and an angel fund, and is a former advisor to the Board of the Angel Capital Education Foundation. He has been elected to the Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame and is currently a business consultant and an internationally acclaimed speaker. He is also the author of
You Need to Be a Little Crazy: The Truth About Starting and Growing Your Business, which is available in five languages.
To contact Barry or for the free companion workbook to Bounce!, go to www.barrymoltz.com.
Table of Contents
Preface.
Acknowledgments.
Chapter 1 Get Ready for Adventure: You Have Never Heard a Speaker Like This Before.
Chapter 2 Archetypes of Success: Be Careful What You Wish For.
Chapter 3 I ’ve Got Your One-Hit Wonder: 867-5309.
Chapter 4 The World from Here: Start Where You Are.
Chapter 5 Forget the Archetypes: Messy Lines Teach Humility.
Chapter 6 Failure Is an Option: Flying Fear in Formation.
Chapter 7 Embracing Failure When It Happens.
Chapter 8 Failure Provides Choices.
Chapter 9 Do It Anyway: Be a Smart Risk Taker.
Chapter 10 A Little DAB Will Do Ya! Drive, Accept, and Build.
Chapter 11 Goal Setting: Establishing Your Own Scorecard.
Chapter 12 No Longer Black and White: Measure for Success in Technicolor.
Chapter 13 Read This Book—Then Throw It Away.
Afterword.
Summary: The Ten Building Bands for True Business Confi dence.
Biographies of Featured Less-than-Famous Businesspeople.
Notes.
Index.