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The brutally honest truth about running a small business. Paul Downs founded his custom furniture company in Philadelphia in 1986 — then spent three decades learning what it actually takes to keep a small business alive. Boss Life, published in 2015, is the antidote to every glossy entrepreneurship fantasy.
Downs — whose “You’re the Boss” blog for the New York Times made him the voice of Main Street America — takes you inside the daily grind: making payroll, managing cash flow, hiring and firing, surviving the 2008 recession, and the loneliness of the decisions no one else can make. Real boss, real employees, real dilemmas. Downs writes about his employees with rare decency — this is a boss you’d actually want to work for.
Essential for small-business owners — and anyone who thinks they’d like to be one. Read this first.
The brutally honest story of running a small business
Paul Downs founded his custom furniture company in Philadelphia in 1986 — and then spent the next three decades learning what it really takes to keep a small business alive. In Boss Life, published in 2015, he paints an honest portrait of a real business: a real boss, a real set of employees, and the real dilemmas that keep owners up at night.
Downs, whose “You’re the Boss” blog for the New York Times made him the voice of Main Street America, takes readers inside the daily grind: making payroll, managing cash flow, hiring and firing, surviving the 2008 recession, and the loneliness of having the final say on everything. No gurus, no growth hacks — just the unvarnished truth about what it costs to build something of your own.
Warm, funny, and full of hard-won wisdom, Boss Life is the rare business book that tells it like it actually is.
Essential reading for
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- Small business owners who want to feel understood.
- Aspiring entrepreneurs who need the truth, not the hype.
- Anyone fascinated by how real companies survive hard times.
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The small-business memoir every entrepreneur should read.
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