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Awakening the Entrepreneur Within

By: Michael E. Gerber
Narrated by: Michael E. Gerber
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The intensity of Michael Gerber's smooth baritone is a perfect match for this powerful lesson on the inner game of starting a business. Urgent and confident, Gerber's performance makes this production hard to put aside. His insights on the entrepreneurial mind describe how explosive creative energy and a moment of clarity are essential for any truly new business idea to appear. And once it does, he shows how the four roles of an entrepreneur - dreamer, thinker, storyteller, and leader - can advance that idea and earn the enthusiasm of employees and customers. In Gerber's hands, the feeling, thinking, and action components of entrepreneurial success have an energizing clarity that will awaken even complacent dreamers who fear there's nothing left in the tank.

Publisher's summary

  • Dream
  • Vision
  • Purpose
  • Mission

    These words have been defining the life of Michael Gerber, best-selling author and international small-business guru. Now he's created a new organization, In The Dreaming Room, as a place where entrepreneurs and future entrepreneurs come to discover how to make their dreams a reality.

    In Awakening the Entrepreneur Within you are invited into the Dreaming Room, where your own entrepreneurial dreams will come alive and become reality. Michael will help you shape your dream into a viable, economically successful company! If you see something missing in your world, it's time to start dreaming. Let Michael Gerber welcome you to the Dreaming Room.
  • ©2008 Michael E. Gerber (P)2008 HarperCollins Publishers

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    this book may help you.

    Struggled to finish. Not because of the reader, I just did not connect with the story.

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    I’m awake!

    I absolutely needed to read this book, to listen to this book, and to get my pen and paper, and write what came from this book. Michael Gerber is brilliant.

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    Good book really

    But last 3 chapter useless, at leat for me. But overall it's Good Book for You

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    Hits the Nail on Entrepreneur Passion

    This is an audible that's worth listening to if you need to find the passion or desire to start a business. So far, I have not found any other books that dealt with the how to get that passion to start a business - most only talk on the author's experiences, the must or musn't do, and the process of starting a business. The "Inspiration" audible by Dr. Wayne Dyer was good, but not specific enough to help you find the passion to start a business. One thing that I thought I should help clear up was the topic on the "Dreaming Room". Don't see it as an informacial, and I doubt it is actually a real business anyway, but see it as Geber showing us how to start a business based on your passion. For a darker but funny audible for starting (or more specifically owning) a business, I'd recommend "How to Get Rich" by Felix Dennis.

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    A true master of business development

    Michael E Gerber is a true inventor of business that works. He shared authentically of what needs to be done and how to do it. The question I have for myself is “what will it takes for me to apply it earnestly without fail” to build my enterprise?

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    What a fantastic journey!

    This is for the serious listener only. All the intellectual reasonings behind the E-Myth and Michael Gerber. You will see all from a new perspective. A delight.

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    Excellent example from the Master

    Considering myself a serial entrepreneur I was fascinated by how well Gerber tells the story of how he became who he is. I would recommend this book for anyone either considering starting their own business (even in the dream stages) or those who have been in business for years and need a subtle reminder that they are not alone!
    Coach Thom Torode

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    Easy guidance for those wanting to take that leap

    In true Michael Gerber style, this book provides easy guidance for those of us who would really like to follow the 'Entrepreneur Within' each of us.

    If you have some great ideas and need to know how to turn those great ideas into a reality then this book is for you. It is not a complete Step-by-Step guide, but more the book that you need when you want to create that inferno within yourself to turn your idea into reality!

    Thanks Michael...

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    Fantastic

    This is by far my favorite book from the E Myths series!!

    Thank you
    Michael Gerber

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    Not what I expected

    No practical advice or tips here. This book was an infomercial for Michael's venture, "The Dreaming Room." Don't get me wrong, I love the E-Myth. This just wasn't what I was looking for.

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