'If you are in senior management or aspire to be then this book is essential reading. It will help you to understand how to succeed as an entrepreneur, manager and leader - all at the same time. In this hands-on book you will find the key person-attributes in which you need to be strong and most importantly how they can be measured.' - Jill Garrett, Executive Director Tentpeg Consulting and formerly Managing Director of Gallup Europe
'In this book, Thompson and Bolton have not only developed their own ideas, but really moved forward the whole discourse on the interrelationship between entrepreneurship, leadership and management. Full of good theory, explained through well chosen case studies.' - Dan Corlett, CEO, Farming and Countryside Education, UK
'Bolton and Thompson challenge the conventional wisdom that entrepreneurs generally do not make effective leaders and rarely become strong managers. The authors present an integrative framework for business people to become entrepreneur, leader and manager for the ‘New Normal’ facing business today. A must read for both entrepreneurs and managers alike.' - Jeff Cornwall, Jack C. Massey Professor of Entrepreneurship, Belmont University, Nashville, USA
'This book on the entirepreneur is unlike any other books about entrepreneurship, from which it emerges. It is a direct and tangible reflection of what is being demanded by the challenges of the 'New Normal'; and it is interspersed with good, concrete examples which bring an academic subject into the realm of reality. I think anyone who will read this, will either want to start his/her own business at the end of it, or reflect upon their existing style and approach, fuelled with enthusiasm and drive emanating from this book.' - Patrick van der Vorst, Founder, valuemystuff.com, UK and USA
'The negativity toward entrepreneurial thinking has been reversed in the last 10 years – in many ways due to the work of Bill Bolton and John Thompson. In their latest book, The Entirepreneur, they explore the relationship between the entrepreneur, leader and manager and show how these three threads need to be woven together. They also highlight the need, constantly, to explore the social and economic horizon and not get caught by the urgency of the immediate. This is an important book, not just for those in the business world, but also for those who want to make a difference to society and approach the future with imagination and creativity.' - Rev. Canon Chris Neal, Mission Consultant, UK
'Bolton and Thompson have again provided a seminal text for those curious about entrepreneurship and their own potential in that area; with a simple but incisive format which extends the scope of analysis to the practicing manager' - Barry Whitehouse, Senior Lecturer in Enterprise and Strategy, Wolverhampton University Business School, UK
Bill Bolton has spent his professional life working in industry (as Technical Director of a Swedish Multinational), in academia (at the University of Cambridge) and as an international consultant.
John Thompson has experience in retailing and the steel industry as well as spending many years as an academic. He is a Professor of Entrepreneurship but he has also taught strategy extensively.
This is the fifth book they have written together.
