Success Made Simple (PDF)

The keys to better business from a thriving group of business
owners-the Amish

Business can be discouraging. According to US Department of
Labor figures, only 44 percent of newly-opened firms will last four
years. Amish firms, on the other hand, have registered a 95%
survival rate over a five-year period. And in many cases, those
businesses do remarkably well-as Donald Kraybill writes: "the
phrase 'Amish millionaire' is no longer an oxymoron." Success Made
Simple is the first practical book of Amish business success
principles for the non-Amish reader. The work provides a platform
of transferable principles--simple and universal enough to be
applied in the non-Amish world, in a wide variety of business and
management settings.

* Learn how to develop profitable and fulfilling enterprises as
Amish explain how to build fruitful relationships with customers
and employees, prosper by playing to strengths, and create an
effective marketing story

* Includes interviews with over 50 Amish business owners outline
the role of relationships in business and the importance of the big
picture-taking in long-term goals, the welfare of others, and
personal integrity

* Offers ideas on practical application of Amish business
practices to non-Amish businesses, with bullet summaries at the end
of each chapter reviewing the most important take-away points

With a focus on relationship-building and the big picture,
Success Made Simple offers business owners everywhere the tools for
better, smarter, more successful enterprises.