ISBN10: 1883599156, ISBN13: 9781883599157, [publisher: Quantum Leap October 1999] Softcover 8vo softcover 270pp very good. Index. In "The New Entrepreneurs," Rene Reid Yarnell raises poignant issues being faced by a growing number of professional men and women across the nation and around the world. With so little security in the workplace, the aftermath of downsizing on both those fired and those left behind, women hitting glass ceilings, workers not paid their worth and saving little or nothing toward retirement, with employee agitation on the rise, more and more workers are looking outside of corporate America for more suitable alternatives. As the corporate executive was the hero of the 20th century, Ms. Reid Yarnell proposes that, with the advancement of technology and the World Wide Web, the entrepreneur will be revered in the 21st century. But it will be a new entrepreneur, not one climbing corporate ladders, nor satisfied merely with amassing financial accomplishments. The 21st century entrepreneur will also seek the balance of lifestyle freedom, self-mastery, and personal fulfillment and find it working from home. Not only employees but employers are candidates for this new form of entrepreneurialism, tired of measuring their success by what they gave up to get it. They realize that having their own business takes more money and time than they'd budgeted; they can never get away on vacation and leave the business behind; Friday payroll is not ...