Audible Book Review: Your Next Five Moves by Patrick Bet-David

 

With one of my Audible credits, I picked up a copy of Your Next Five Moves: Master the Art of Business Strategy by Patrick Bet-David. As his online biography states, before Bet-David had turned 30, he had served in the U.S. military, embarked upon his business career, and launched an insurance sales, marketing, and distribution company. His YouTube channel, Valuetainment, has more than 5.2 million subscribers. Bet-David uses it to teach "about the fundamentals of entrepreneurship and personal development while inspiring people to break from limiting beliefs or other constraints and achieve their dreams."

In Your Next Five Moves, Bet-David has created an outstanding guide to help you think more clearly so that you can accomplish even the boldest of your business goals. While Bet-David provides a fair amount of his personal history, it flows nicely throughout the chapters. It is quickly clear that he is the perfect person to guide you on how to master the art of business strategy. 

Bet-David encourages you to understand what drives you, so that you know what you want and who you want to be. Your Next Five Moves will help you learn how to develop better reasoning skills and how to think on your feet. Bet-David's goal is to help you learn how to grow your business despite what outside influences might be throwing your way. Your Next Five Moves also helps you develop the skills to build the right team based on strong values. If you want a better understanding of the book, I suggest watching this video. 

One of the most interesting chapters for me was Bet-David's insight into how individuals in organized crime approach situations. While not condoning such a business, he shows what entrepreneurs can gain from studying them. With references from The Godfather movies and noting interviews he has had with mobsters such as Frank Cullotta and others, Bet-David proves his point. 

So much of what Bet-David says in Your Next Five Moves resonated with me. You need to know yourself and what you want and work on developing your skills, before you can understand how to build the right team and set your business up for sustained growth. I plan to visit the book's website for the resources cited in the book.

If you're an entrepreneur, Your Next Five Moves should be on your reading list.

Listening Length	8 hours and 6 minutes
Author	Patrick Bet-David
Narrator	Patrick Bet-David
Whispersync for Voice	Ready
Audible.com Release Date	August 18, 2020
Publisher	Simon & Schuster Audio
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B084B2X9TX

This review contains my honest opinions, which I have not been compensated for in any way.

Book Review: Does Your Vision Need an Engineer? by Rufus Chambers III

Many of us have visions and dreams. We don't, however, always have a practical plan to follow and make them a reality.

In Does Your Vision Need an Engineer? author Rufus Chambers III helps teach readers how to attach a plan of action to their divinely inspired vision.

This resource uses the story of Nehemiah's vision to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem, to inspire you to create a strategic plan to execute your vision. Listing a series of "vision characteristics," you learn about the need for accountability, how to realize your vision is bigger than you, that a vision requires resources and protection, and more traits that are important before moving forward.

After these vision characteristics, the author shares a series of steps to follow to advance your vision, like the importance of identifying resources, knowing your strengths and weaknesses, assembling your team and creating a timeline, followed by implementation, evaluation, and expansion and more.

This faith-based resource challenges as of us to become Vision Engineers™. It's a unique way of looking at strat planning and accepting God's vision for your life. It's a quick read, but you'll want to refer back to it often.

File Size: 2736 KB
Print Length: 125 pages
Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1795624744
Publication Date: March 24, 2019
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Language: English

I received a digital copy of this book from the author. This review contains my honest opinion, which I have not been compensated for in any way.