EntreLeadership:20 years of Practical Business Wisdom from the Trenches

EntreLeadership:20 years of Practical Business Wisdom from the Trenches by Dave Ramsey            AudioBook:  11hrs., 30 mins     Hardback Book:  320 pages           

Dave Ramsey is literally teaching a business course here whether he tells you that or not.    In this Business 101 course – you learn it all.     Dave gives you his and his family’s backgrounds from beginning to end when he first started on a card table in his house to the multi-million dollar business he has created today.   Between running his business, dealing with his employees or giving the reader practical advice and the benefit of his experience good and bad times in his own life and how he dealt with both this is a true gem of a book.    If you are an employee, a supervisor or an uber boss you will come away with some great tips for doing things better here.    In such understandable terms, Dave walks you through from starting a business and builds on that from the ground up to becoming a rockstar in your field of expertise.    He is a firm believer in setting goals and achieving them by setting achievement deadlines.     He tells the reader how to motivate your employees, how to deal with ethical issues and gossip in your employees.    He talks about breached trust issues and how best to deal with them.   He tells how take your workers to being a cohesive team.    He talks about paying off debt and working from cash as quickly as possible, both in your business life and in your personal life.   There is so much positive and helpful information here that can be applied to both business and personal sides of your life.    He cites examples of his own screw ups and his major achievements.    He tells the reader how to nip disastrous employee behavior in the bud before it destroys the company’s culture.   He teaches how to delegate.   He covers every aspect of business in this book, he speaks honestly and he doesn’t suffer foolishness or allowing an employees incorrect  behavior regardless of their output to spoil the morale of the other employees.   He talks about his faith, how to work well with a spouse when it is a family business,  he talks about giving back to his employees and thereby the community.   I can’t think of anything he missed.   He is so spot on with his advice and laser like eye on behavior in the officeplace.     EXCELLENT BOOK.    I would recommend this book to anyone young or old – there is so much to learn here you might want to read this book more than once because you will want to retain it all.   Another book that should be on everyone’ shelf.   Bravo, Dave Ramsey!

 - Shirley J.