Your Next Five Moves: Master the Art of Business Strategy

The Short version -This book is a lot different from other business books as it gives you the advice along with ways to implement that advice in your day-to-day life, which most books don't. Read this book and not just read it, but try to apply what's given, because it's very easy to apply. The advice is amazing, and for a business fanatic like me, this book was a treat to read. Anyone who is interested in improving their business must read it.The long version-This book surprised me. Firstly, I read a lot of business books. When I picked this book, I thought to myself, 'What more can another business book teach me?'. I was wrong and this book has a lot of new concepts. I was surprised when I finished the book. It was amazing, a lot better than I expected it to be. The book picks up on the analogy of a chess grandmaster, as to how a chess grandmaster can think 6,7 and sometimes 10 moves ahead. That applies in business too. In order to succeed we must think five moves in advance. This book clearly focuses on exactly that and how you too can achieve that. The book is not too long and it is not too short. It offers you the information you need without using any unnecessary matter. It doesn't offer far-fetched ideas which are impossible to apply, but gives simple and actionable, yet effective advice on how to move your business forward. The book is divided into 5 moves, and tells you in each chapter how you can master these moves. These moves or strategies span all the spheres of a business. The advice is so simple yet profoundly useful to all those who aspire to grow a business or are looking forward to start one.Unlike most of books out there, which give you glorifying advice but fail to tell you how to implement them, this book gives you the ways to execute what's given in it. And all the tips are not a rip-off of previous business books, but taken right from the experience of the author, which you can easily apply in your personal and professional life, no matter where you are or what you do. In conclusion, this book is a new breeze in the world of business books. With it's simple language and breezy text, the book hits you with quite a few useful tips and advice, which can be quite useful if applied the right way.

Condition and the cover of book is not good. A lot of marks on back cover.

Exceptionally well written and a lot of wisdom can be extracted from this book.This is for aspiring entrepreneurs and business men who wants to scale up their gamesMust read

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.

Good book to read!

Buenisimo, facil de leer. No son los tipicos ejemplos basico, se nota la experiencia y se desmuestra con todos los ejemplos que usa. 100% util para la vida real laboral. Se queda entre mis libros favoritos, muchas ideas para estudiar y pensar. Muy recomendable

One of the best business books I've ever read. Patrick is an innovative entrepreneur and always up to date with the production of content in digital media, which is a great differentiator for his sector. The book is full of good examples and excellent lessons on business strategy that can be applied to entrepreneurs and employees. Patrick almost always makes good analogies between business strategy and sports strategy, making the topics easier for anyone to understand. Each chapter has good examples that can be applied to the reader in their business, work, or personal life. The final chapters reminded me of another book that I also really like: HBR Guide to Negotiating.

The title of this book is deceiving in that it massively undersells just how good and how essential a read it is for business owners.I’ve never heard of Patrick Bet-David prior to this and I can’t remember what made me buy this book in the first place, but I’m so glad I did.As a solopreneur (currently), I initially thought it wouldn’t benefit me since it seemed to be aimed at bigger companies. I was wrong.There are so many great business lessons and principles here to take your business from whatever stage you’re currently at to where you want to be.It’s not very often these days that I find a book worth reading cover to cover. This was one of them.

Just a quick note: I have both the audiobook and hardcover versions and they are both very good. Patrick is a great narrator and I enjoyed his other two audiobooks, especially "Doing The Impossible: The 25 Laws for Doing The Impossible," as well.This book is an excellent book to help those are uncertain about what they want out of life, how to start a business, maintain a business, and survive in a business environment. The book emphasizes self awareness, knowing what you ultimately want out of life and a job, and after that how to structure your career path around that if you are someone that want to run a company by giving the reader 5 moves to think about. The book is well thought out and recommendations are backed by life experience, but throughout the book the reader is told to use their own judgment and not to just take the recommendations as orders. The 5 moves are broken down as follows with some highlights I picked:1. Know yourself: be self aware; know who you want to be, what you want in life. Do you want to be a CEO, intrapreneur (someone who is not necessarily a founder but a key member of building a company without being the CEO), an influencer, etc.? What drives you--job promotions, lifestyle, fame, helping others?My favorite part of the book is actually here, right at the beginning. Patrick talks about how a heart attack his father had helped guide him to removing distractions out of his life and to focus on bettering his life and his family's life. Although based on the "Know yourself and what drives you" theme, it is obvious we all have a desire to have a nice life, and we all will have different definitions for what that may be. It is important to realize we have competing desires with our one for a better life, no matter how seemingly innocent they may be, and that we need to remove these competing desires as barriers to do the work and make the sacrifices necessary to fulfill our desire for a better life.2. Ability to reason: the book speaks about great processors of information and gives 8 traits for them, but the first two are the ones that I find most important--ask lots of questions and don't care about being right or wrong initially, just in reaching the truth. I appreciate the frankness here because many people, not all, try to act like they know everything and have to be correct, both in business and in life, and they end up hurting their relationships and prospects of success do this. If those people would focus on improving and not worrying about how not knowing everything appears to others they would succeed more.3. Building the right team: understand your teams desires; talks about firing people, which as someone who may not be a CEO but has worked with coworkers who should have been fired, I am glad he does not shy away from doing what is necessary for the good of the team; communicate expectations--you'd be surprised how many people/bosses do not do this and act angry when something is not completed at the time or in the fashion of their desire. By communicating expectations, the level of urgency and detail required for the task is conveyed and the employee knows exactly how to prioritize their work--for some bosses I've had, if they said to do something in an open ended fashion, they wanted progress to be done on it, but for the day to day tasks to take priority; others wanted it done and handed over to them with a quick turn around regardless of other tasks. People are not mind readers and clear communication can help avoid unnecessary friction.4. Strategy to scale--raising capital; accountability; building systems for measurement and making things systematic to easily train the next wave of talent. My favorite parts were the respect shown for predictive analytics and recommendation of codifying your business methods to more easily train the next wave of talent in your company. If more company's took this approach, they'd save tons of time and grief (I have been on the receiving end of the grief due to poor training).5. Power plays: beat the dominant entities of your industry and control your narrative and brand. This one has quite a few points to get into, but one thing I will like to point out is the point of not prostituting your brand. Patrick lives this. He does not talk about the company he runs, PHP, much on his Valutainment YouTube channel. He uses it when he draws on his life experiences, yes, but he does not promote it. This built my trust in him and I will vouch that he seems like an honest person that knows how to respect his viewers/readers/customers time and will not jerk them around.He will make mention in the book to use your own judgement and not necessarily just go by what he says. He does not try to come across as a know it all, but as someone who has gone through many different situations, learned many things, come up with strategies for putting a situation in his favor, and being highly curious and willing to evolve and change his thinking. If you are looking for guidance on figuring out how you be self aware, aware of coworkers/employees desires, how to build a company, maintain it, and grow it, this will be a solid and perhaps even indispensable source of knowledge for you.