Your Next Five Moves: Master the Art of Business Strategy

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he basically talks about his life and career most of the time. should be a bio book not a business strategy

I feel like the author is literally talking to me. Our sales increased after reading this book. Highly recommend.

Highly recommend

Great content, exposures.

This is a really great book, and I highly recommend it to everyone.

It all starts with a winning aspiration. The proverbial fire in the belly, coupled with abundant courage and an American Dream. The rest, as they say is history. This book is about human Potential, Passion and Purpose. This is the story of an Iranian refugee in our generation who has made it big in the land of opportunities. This is his business story, with key lessons on entrepreneurship. The author says that there are three kinds of advisers. 1. Theory: Well-read individuals with degrees from prestigious universities, typically professors and consultants. 2. Witness: The advisers who have worked closely with entrepreneurs and CEOs. 3. Application: The people who can tell you what they have done, that has worked for them. The author does not (fortunately) have a formal college degree. But he has taken time to read over 1500 books on business. This book is his first-hand experience of Application. The Five Moves, compared to the dozen moves that grandmasters plan in the game of chess, follow a clear framework (Simon Sinek) – WHY (CLARITY on what you want and who you want to be), HOW (STRATEGY to help you reason in the war room and the board room. GROWTH TACTICS for good times and bad) and, WHAT (SKILLS for building the right team based on strong values. INSIGHT on power plays and the art of applying leverage.) Each of these five moves need to be thought out clearly and undergo iteration and constant course correction. While many of the concepts in the book can be found in leading business books, this book excels in giving deep, specific, actionable insights. As an example, the team members are categorised as - Stranger, Endorsed, Trusted, and Running mate. Running mates are those who can always be trusted fully for their competence, integrity, and high performance. They are the extended fuel of entrepreneurship that need no supervision and propel the firm to greater heights. Speed is key for growth. Be it Functional speed, Process speed, Expansion speed or Timing Speed, as explained with excellent examples. Success is not about Linear growth, which can be managed by Operating Systems coupled with Business Development. Exponential growth is fuelled by the twin engines of Entrepreneurship and Innovation. This is a paradigm shift in the mindset of great leaders who generate momentum for speed and growth. This book is equally relevant for Intrapreneurs (who think and work with an entrepreneurial mindset in established well run great companies). Most often, bureaucracy and hubris are the twin curses of big corporates, where titles and hence entitlement rule, especially at senior levels. (They work in their business, but not on their business. Physically present, but mentally retired, they enjoy comfortable corporate lifestyle, fat salaries and look forward to happy official retirement. Insecure leaders are surrounded by ‘yes’ men who are rewarded for being ‘highly aligned’.) This rot needs to be stopped, to arrest the decay and prevent the accelerated demise of the leviathan. This book is a wake-up call for top leadership, to reignite, reinvent, revive such organizations and to reward all stakeholders. Work as if it is a new company every day. God speed ahead.

I have been following Patrick Bet-David for about 3 years since I found Valuetainment, from that moment his advise was not only based on theoretical knowledge but based on his own experiences. the book is an improved extension of the Youtube channel. While many business book authors use examples to explain specific methods or theories, Patrick goes beyond and explains from his own experiences the relationship between the theoretical knowledge he acquired and how he put it in practice, the result is a not a business book only, but a life guide. Patrick guide us in a step-by-step path to know us better in order to be able to provide the best for other people, either through entrepreneurship or intrapreneurship. As he mentions in the book, knowing ourselves is the main challenge to being to improve our lives and other people's lives and moreover our own families. Another great difference between classic business or personal improvement books, is the gifts Patrick gave us after each chapter, making the full circle of knowledge, theory, practice and experiment. I am sure I will not read the book once but it will become my personal guide for years to come. Thank you David for sharing your knowledge with us, really appreciate it.

Bellissimo libro. Molto interessante.