Your Next Five Moves: Master the Art of Business Strategy

Patrick Bet-David

Simon and Schuster, Aug 18, 2020 - Business & Economics - 320 pages

AN INSTANT INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

From the creator of Valuetainment, the #1 YouTube channel for entrepreneurs, comes a practical and effective guide for thinking more clearly and achieving your most audacious business goals.

Both successful entrepreneurs and chess grandmasters have the vision to look at the pieces in front of them and anticipate their next five moves. In this book, Patrick Bet-David translates this skill into a valuable methodology that applies to high performers at all levels of business. Whether you feel like you’ve hit a wall, lost your fire, or are looking for innovative strategies to take your business to the next level, Your Next Five Moves has the answers.

You will gain:

CLARITY on what you want and who you want to be.

STRATEGY to help you reason in the war room and the board room.

GROWTH TACTICS for good times and bad.

SKILLS for building the right team based on strong values.

INSIGHT on power plays and the art of applying leverage.

Combining these principles and revelations drawn from Patrick’s own rise to successful CEO, Your Next Five Moves is a must read for any serious executive, strategist or entrepreneur.

Contents

• Who Do You Want to Be? 3: 3
• You 22: 22
• MASTER THE ABILITY TO REASON: 55
• How to Solve for: 73
• MASTER BUILDING THE RIGHT TEAM: 89
• Create a PrinciplesBased Culture: 113
• The Power of Reliability: 130
• MASTER STRATEGY TO SCALE: 149
• Make Momentum Your Friend: 170
• Designing Systems: 188
• Stay Paranoid The Grand Master: 204
• MASTER POWER PLAYS: 219
• How to Sell: 240
• Cultivate Your Power and Stay Battle Tested: 256
• Conclusion Checkmate: 271
• Acknowledgments: 277
• Appendix B Solve for X Worksheet: 286

About the author

Patrick Bet-David went from escaping war-torn Iran to founding his own financial services firm, raising tens of millions of dollars, and creating Valuetainment, the leading YouTube channel for entrepreneurs. His unorthodox approach to business as well as life has led to compelling interviews with Ray Dalio, Kevin Hart, the late Kobe Bryant, President George W. Bush, and a host of other luminaries. His content on social media has been viewed over a billion times. Patrick never obtained a college degree and went from the army to selling health club memberships before entering the field of financial services. At age thirty, he founded PHP, a financial services agency. He lives in Dallas with his wife and three children.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Your Next Five Moves: Master the Art of Business Strategy
• Author: Patrick Bet-David
• Contributor: Greg Dinkin
• Publisher: Simon and Schuster, 2020
• ISBN: 1982154802, 9781982154806
• Length: 320 pages
• Subjects: Business & Economics / Decision-Making & Problem Solving; Business & Economics / Entrepreneurship; Business & Economics / General; Business & Economics / Personal Success; Business & Economics / Strategic Planning