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Your Next Five Moves
What It’s About
Successful entrepreneurs and chess grandmasters alike have the mindset to look at the pieces in front of them and predict their next five moves. In this book, Patrick Bet-David transforms this ability into a valuable methodology that can be applied at every level of business.
Three Key Ideas
Know Yourself First
Identifying your core personality traits and motivations is the foundation for choosing business strategies that actually fit you.
Systematic Problem-Solving
Breaking every problem down to its root cause and comparing three concrete solutions prevents costly decisions built on surface-level diagnosis.
Building and Keeping a Great Team
Hiring deliberately, designing motivating compensation, and creating a culture of constructive honesty are what separate growing companies from stagnating ones.
Read a Sample
The book in 3 sentences: Get to know yourself and what you want. Learn to solve problems more effectively. Build an excellent team. Favorite quotes: “I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a lamb; I am afraid of an army of lambs led by a lion.” “A talented entrepreneur with bad habits will eventually become an employee. An average employee with great habits can eventually become a great entrepreneur.” “You will use experiences to either become more bitter or better. To become better, you need to reflect on your mistakes.” Step One: Understand who you are right now!
Knowing who you are lets you accept yourself fully, writes Bet-David. Once you've accepted yourself, you can go after goals and paths that match your truest desires and your greatest strengths with confidence.
You can also size yourself up using the Big Five personality dimensions: extraversion, neuroticism, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness to experience. Each one's a spectrum, so you'll land somewhere between high and low neuroticism, for example. Both genes and environment seem to influence where you fall on each spectrum, and your traits don't shift much once you're an adult.
How can you understand who you are?
Bet-David suggests asking yourself questions like these: How does the world see you, and how is that different from the way you see yourself? Questions are a good route to self-knowledge. In fact, asking a series of more and more personal questions is a recommended way to build quick intimacy between two people.
Who It’s For
- Anyone who wants a practical, step-by-step framework for thinking like a strategic entrepreneur.
- Anyone who struggles to identify root causes of business problems before trying to solve them.
- Anyone who is building a team and wants to hire, retain, and motivate the right people.
- Anyone who wants to grow a company with discipline, not just hustle, and position it as an industry leader.
About the Author: Patrick Bet-David
Patrick Bet-David is an entrepreneur, author, and CEO who founded PHP Agency, one of the fastest-growing financial services companies in the United States. He is widely known as the creator of the Valuetainment media brand, which produces business and entrepreneurship content with a large following online.
Bet-David immigrated from Iran to the United States and built his career from the ground up, drawing on those experiences to write and speak about business strategy, leadership, and personal development.
