Judy Piatkus Bio
Judy Piatkus founded her independent publishing company Piatkus Books from her bedroom in the early 1980s. She was married and had three children. Her eldest daughter has cerebral palsy.
Over the next 25 years she grew it into one of the leading independent book publishing companies in the English-speaking world. Piatkus Books was a pioneer of new ideas in personal development, and alternative health. Piatkus supported new novelists and licenced the rights to some of America’s greatest commercial novelists into the UK and abroad. Authors published by Piatkus include many famous storytellers, Nora Roberts, J D Robb, Linda Howard, Danielle Steel and Robert Crais.
Judy sold her company to Little Brown before the credit crunch in 2007 and now works as a management consultant, investor and mentor. She is also a keynote speaker on entrepreneurship, future trends and building a great business. In 2009 the Times of London described Judy as ‘one of the world’s leading thinkers’.
Show Description - Entrepeneurship - Growing your business in changing times
How do you grow your business when everything around you is in a state of flux? How can you achieve clarity of vision and purpose when the marketplace for your goods or services is so unpredictable?
Judy Piatkus is a successful entrepreneur who reinvented her independent book publishing company on four occasions to suit the changing times. She learned how to spot new trends before they happened, how to make difficult decisions, how to initiate change in her company and, most importantly, how to keep her staff happy and motivated so that they were always ready to explore new directions.
Listen to this show to learn about the core principles of growing a great business, making good profits and having fun along the way.
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