About The Author

Attorney with Vast Experience in Business Law

Scott Annes is an attorney with nearly three decades of experience in representing small to moderate-sized businesses and individuals in metropolitan Chicago. Over the years, his clients and colleagues have shared with him a vast amount of insight and advice as well as experiences as they go about the business of being in business. Drawing on the wisdom that people have shared with him as well as what he has learned from his adventures, he has produced a three-book series for aspiring to accomplished small business owners.

For those who are considering starting a new business venture, he wrote Who Wants to be a Businessaire? As a guide to open the reader’s mind to the issues that one would face in striking out on a new business endeavor. Scott is a devoted proponent of such businesses and in Who Wants to be a Businessaire? He commits to candidly introducing people to concepts that they may not have contemplated and perhaps could not imagine.

Attorney with Vast Experience in Business Law

For those who have already taken the plunge and are asking themselves why they ever went into business in the first place, he wrote Greetings from the Other Side as a compendium on how to handle the stress, monotony, and challenges of a going enterprise. Greetings from the Other Side explores the classic dilemma of being the boss as opposed to merely being an employee and helps the reader to assess and appreciate the differences between them.

And for those who wonder where exactly entrepreneurs develop the knowledge and skill to own and operate their businesses, he wrote Things I’ve Learned Along the Way. In Things I’ve Learned Along the Way, Scott provides perhaps the universal message about the entrepreneurial experience. The knowledge and instincts developed since we were born and throughout our initial education ultimately allow us to formulate the fundamental skills necessary to succeed in business. Although some of the lessons may seem straightforward, understanding their relevance to our business acumen can be complex. We often forget how we were taught the important lessons in life, but we seldom forget what we learned. In Things I’ve Learned Along the Way, the reader is invited to consider where he or she acquired the knowledge they possess as they explore how that knowledge is implemented to help one prosper in business and in life.

Scott’s focus in the series was to help readers to grasp the feeling of being in business to live by presenting sage advice, self-deprecating humor, and clever anecdotes to make them as entertaining as they are informative.

Not to be “all business,” so to speak, Scott has also written several fiction titles that expound on imaginative compliments to real-life experiences. In Scott’s recent work, The Winter, the human condition is examined in a conflict between a major Midwestern city and the forces of nature. In comparing the extreme weather that pounds the inhabitants of the city to war, a seemingly endless struggle is confronted by a cast of determined but otherwise flawed individuals who endure in the wake of tragedy. Scott wrote The Winter as not merely a novel but a chronicle comprised of several stories that allow the reader to ultimately grasp the strain and ultimately the transcendence and triumph of its characters.

In crafting his work, Scott relies upon wit, satire, candor, sarcasm, humility, and wisdom to help his readers stay engaged in the stories that he shares and to learn some valuable lessons regardless of how incidental the lessons may be to the plots and characters he depicts in both his fiction and nonfiction work.

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