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EntreLeadership: 20 Years of Practical Business Wisdom from the Trenches Hardcover – Illustrated, September 20, 2011
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Your company is only as strong as your leaders. These are the men and women doing battle daily beneath the banner that is your brand. Are they courageous or indecisive? Are they serving a motivated team or managing employees? Are they valued?
Your team will never grow beyond you, so here’s another question to consider—are you growing? Whether you’re sitting at the CEO’s desk, the middle manager’s cubicle, or a card table in your living-room-based start-up, EntreLeadership provides the practical, step-by-step guidance to grow your business where you want it to go. Dave Ramsey opens up his championship playbook for business to show you how to:
-Inspire your team to take ownership and love what they do
-Unify your team and get rid of all gossip
-Handle money to set your business up for success
-Reach every goal you set
-And much, much more!
EntreLeadership is a one-stop guide filled with accessible advice for businesses and leaders to ensure success even through the toughest of times.
- Print length320 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherHoward Books
- Publication dateSeptember 20, 2011
- Dimensions6 x 1 x 9 inches
- ISBN-101451617852
- ISBN-13978-1451617856
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"EntreLeadership," is a good book on leadership in business. But I don't feel it's a great one. He has, as always, a lot of good practical knowledge that he's willing to share with us. But it's usually not something I haven't read elsewhere in books on leadership or related literature. So, yes, the book's probably worth buying, but it didn't seem to be as excellent in its genre as is Dave's "Financial Peace." There is a lot of excellent basic material here on leadership, goals, organization, working with people, etc. But it's not especially original or compelling. And it's not very in-depth, largely because Dave deals with so many topics all in one book. Still, "EntreLeadership" is a good, one-stop place for good, basic advice on many subjects related to leadership and business. Almost everyone will find something of value in it, especially businessmen looking for a proven, practical vision with integrity.
What Dave shares in this book is his "playbook" for business success, divided up into 15 topics.
Dave sets out first to define what an "EntreLeader" is. It's kind of an ugly word, but Dave feels that what he wanted in business from himself and others was people who had the good characteristics of both leaders and entrepreneurs. So what is an EntreLeader? I'm glad you asked! According to Dave, they're people who can be:
Passionately serving
Mavericks who have integrity
Disciplined risk takers
Courageous while humble
Motivated visionaries
Driven while loyal
Influential learners
Dave concludes Chapter 1 by discussing some of the characteristics of leaders, such as power, the need to be servants, and passion. There's some good stuff here, but it's not really original or uniquely compelling.
In Chapter 2, Dave walks us from Dreams to Visions to Mission Statements and Goals. Again, there's good wisdom here, but it's not really unique, and he doesn't spend a lot of time on each. He spends the most time on goals (I won't rehearse what he says here), and it's good material that almost anyone will benefit from. But once again, it's not groundbreaking or original stuff you can't get elsewhere.
Chapter 3 deals with time management and organization. This is something I'm naturally good enough at but not nearly as good as I ought to be. So I learned some new tricks in this chapter - or, more accurately - was motivated to make a better effort to apply what I already know.
The rest of the chapters follow suit in giving good and even excellent advice, but possibly material you've heard before. I have less experience with business than with leading or dreaming, so I can't speak as specifically to the parts that deal specifically with business (such as Chapters 7, 13, and 14). But from what I can tell, they're good solid material for running a business, if that's what I did. I particularly like the chapter on selling (such as Chapters 7, 8, 11, and 12) because in these chapters Dave shows how business can be done with integrity. I like as well the way that throughout he demonstrates a genuine interest in the people who work for him (this especially came out in a touching story in Chapter 7 about someone Dave hired who couldn't live off the salary he could afford to pay her) and those he is serving. These chapters, dealing with people, are probably his strongest chapters because he highlights the need to serve the people around you and not exalt yourself at their expense.
A lot of what Dave says applies, even if you're not in business. For example, any leader can benefit from Dave's philosophy in Chapter 11 that as leaders we must put people first and that the way to judge this is by the Golden Rule. It's good advice to remember, as he teaches in Chapter 12, that we should remember to recognize people. I know that personally, I thrive on appropriate and deserved recognition. In Chapter 12, Dave provides a list of various ways we can actually do this for others. Most of these, such as casting a vision, storytelling, passion, and example, are ways of recognizing others that you could use outside of business, too.
There's much more I could say, but by now you've gotten an idea of the value of the book.
The remainder of the book is organized this way (I'm giving the gist of each chapter, and not the fancy titles):
Chapter 4 - Making Decisions
Chapter 5 - Great Marketing
Chapter 6 - Launching Your Dream
Chapter 7 - Hiring and Firing
Chapter 8 - Selling by Serving
Chapter 9 - Financial Peace for Business
Chapter 10 - Great Communication and Great Companies
Chapter 11 - People Matter Most
Chapter 12 - Recognizing and Inspiring Employees
Chapter 13 - Contracts, Vendors, and Collections
Chapter 14 - Compensation Plans
Chapter 15 - Delegating
I recommend "EntreLeadership" as a good, big picture, book that will help leaders and businessman lead and innovate with greater integrity and skill.
Simple.
May of the principles that apply to running a business also apply to running your life. For example, chapter 2 focuses on dreams, mission and purposes statements, and the like. Everyone, including freelance writers, need to have a solid grip on what their purposes is. Like " Fiddler on the Roof ," each of us must determine "who he is and what God expects him to do."
And chapter 3 is about time management and prioritization. Freelance writers, as all other people, need to know what comes first, what come second, and what the big things are in in life. Are we doing the most important things we need to be doing day by day?
Chapters 8 and 10 also apply to me. They focuses on salesmanship, and marketing. Ramsey proclaims that the key to marketing is service. If you serve people, then sales will take care of themselves. Writers sell their articles and books and manuscripts. The sale pattern--qualification, rapport, education/information, close--can help writers, or anyone, get heir message and manuscript out in the open (167).
And chapter 9, on money and budgets. Freelancers have irregular income. Therefore we need to take special care to have our cash flow under control, and that we are sticking to the irregular income budget.
So the key things is to find relevant principles, and see how they apply to your work. A person like me can even use the latter chapters that focus on the nuts-and-bolts of running a business. This is the concept of "YOU, inc."
One of the books sportiest features are the smart-phone videos. Those newfangled 3D bar codes are in the book. And, if like me, you do not have newfangled gizmos, you can get the videos online. An upgrade from the DVD in Covey's book.
The book does have some weaknesses. In Good to Great and the Social Sectors: A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great , Jim Collins makes the point that business thinking may not be the answer for private-sector or religious-sector problems. So must must adapt things. This book has the same weakness, but also the same potential--if we are astute.
Another has to do with wisdom. Although Ramsey warns us no to "freak out" and assets that "you are not about to enter the Christian theology of business zone" (3)( Business By The Book: Complete Guide of Biblical Principles for the Workplace ), he has 8 quotes from Proverbs--which is Jewish scripture ( Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money ). He has the same ticklishness that Covey has with his Mormonism: their values drive their books and success, but they are shy about "coming out of the closet."
Also, this book does not discuss wisdom. Dave has wisdom, and he seeks wisdom (86), but he does not talk about wisdom as part of his success. Compare this to Covey's " The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness ," which proclaims that the Information Age with give way to the Wisdom Age. Wisdom is crucial, since it is the basis for mission statements and prioritization.
When I set this book down, I had the feeling that I had just read a one-volume MBA.
And that may be true.
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Dave Ramsey est non seulement un grand entrepreneur, mais il a des valeurs éthiques qui nous poussent à être plus exigeant !
Mr. Ramsey have added all parts of business as well as social and personal life experiences.
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