Entreleadership

20 Years of Practical Business Wisdom from the Trenches

By: Dave Ramsey

Narrated by: Dave Ramsey

Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins

Publisher's summary

If you’re at all responsible for your company’s success, you can’t just be a hard-charging entrepreneur or a motivating, encouraging leader. You have to be both!

If you’re at all responsible for your company’s success, you can’t just be a hard-charging entrepreneur or a motivating, encouraging leader. You have to be both!

This book presents Dave’s playbook for creating work that matters; building an incredible group of passionate, empowered team members; and winning the race with steady momentum that will roll over any obstacle.

Regardless of your business goals, you’ll discover that anyone can lead any venture to unbelievable growth and prosperity through Dave’s common sense, counterculture, EntreLeadership principles!

©2011 Dave Ramsey (P)2011 Simon & Schuster, Inc.

Critic reviews

“Dave Ramsey’s EntreLeadership speaks right to the heart of business leaders, showing not just the ‘how tos,’ but also the ‘why tos’ that apply to any sized business, from a garage-based startup to a powerhouse market leader. And by the way, I’m the biggest Dave Ramsey acolyte ever!” (Dr. Arthur B. Laffer, economic advisor to President Ronald Reagan)

“Entrepreneurs are needed in America now more than ever - but there’s a big difference between starting a company and leading one. And there’s an even bigger difference between a company that’s valuable and one that has values. But Dave has figured out the recipe to being both things at once, and his lessons are invaluable.” (Glenn Beck, best-selling author)

“Dave Ramsey has taken commonsense leadership principles and made them uncommonly practical, useful, and life changing. His straightforward and plain-talk approach is refreshing. Even more admirable is that his advice is not a bunch of leadership fru-fru fluff, but it's solid and substantive.” (Mike Huckabee, former governor, FOX News host)

It's Abridged!!!

What did you like about this audiobook?

Dave's the man. He inspired and taught me to get debt free and find financial peace.

How has the book increased your interest in the subject matter?

Dave makes you want to be a better leader.

What did you find wrong about the narrator's performance?

This is an abridged book! I'm a big fan (BS3) and love FPU. Heck, we host it at our church every year and even hosted the EntreLeadership simulcast. Hey, I bought the audio AND hardback books. What a huge disappointment to read the book as I listen and notice entire sections, paragraphs and pages just skipped altogether. What's that about? I paid for the whole book, Dave, why couldn't you read it all?Bad form from a great man.

THE most practical book on running a business.

OK...you can toss all those books about running a business written by egg head college professors or knuckleheads who are only good at writing books about running a business. You can also toss the books by successful business people that only stroke their ego and personal brand but fail to share the real deal about how to run a successful business on a daily basis. EntreLeadership is a book that will help your business TODAY regardless of what stage you are at. Practical, Specific, Direct, AND Entertaining. My company is growing like crazy and Dave Ramsey is the business mentor that I need right now. I am now listening to the book for the second time.

Very good and usable advice

Dave has done a fine jod and there is a lot of real world wisdom in here and the book tells you things you can acually do not just super generic advice that no one can figure out how to put into practice. Very little pchyco-babble

Excellent insights for building a great business

What did you love best about Entreleadership?

Dave provides excellent insight into how to build and grow a successful business based on solid biblical principles. He offers many helpful examples from his own experience to illustrate his points.

There were some excellent pieces of advice that I will likely remember for a lifetime that are very helpful for business and life.

I enjoyed hearing Dave read his own book (as opposed to another narrator) because he is passionate about what he knows and believes and it comes through in his voice.

I also enjoyed that Dave referenced the Bible multiple times. It is refreshing to be reminded that God is in everything we do, including business.

Passion! An Author who CARES about his material!

What did you love best about Entreleadership?

Dave Ramsey is a faith driven man, which could come off strong to an atheist like me, but it doesn't. Nearly all of his advice is practically important, and he delivers it all with passion WITHOUT needing to refer to Jesus constantly.

This is an all-encompassing book about determining your strengths, starting a business, assembling a team, managing the work, defining products/services, and more. As an amateur, I appreciated the breadth of the material. The passion and conviction which has come with years of preaching, no doubt, made the hours fly by, even during a second listen-through immediately after the first.

What other book might you compare Entreleadership to and why?

The Personal MBA has much of the same material but with more of the "nitty gritty" details. EntreLeadership focuses mostly on the actual business-side of project and people management, whereas The Personal MBA covers everything from business tax to personal health/diet.

Have you listened to any of Dave Ramsey’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

The one downside: If you have listened to Ramsey's "EntreLeadership" podcast, you have heard the most important pieces of this book. In the podcast, you'll hear a recording of Ramsey in front of an audience (where he shines even more) performing parts/excerpts of this material, then a host discusses the main topic with a guest.

I suggest listening to the audiobook, and if you enjoy the material, listen to the EntreLeadership Podcast from Episode 1. It would be a great way to refresh all the information.

Any additional comments?

Some theology is there but entirely digestible and even charming in places, if that doesn't happen to be your cup of tea.

WOW what an awesome book!! Dave really brings it !

What did you love best about Entreleadership?

It is truly everything you need to know, but didn't know who to ask. I loved the section on compensation plans and how to hire someone. The interview process that he recomends is priceless.

What was one of the most memorable moments of Entreleadership?

He put the chairs for their morning staff meeting outside in the snow, because several of them were coming in late. He then had the morning meeting out in it. He told them if they didn't get their act together they would be out in the street.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

The entire book moved me.

Any additional comments?

Dave is the perfect example of what you can do when you have God on your side. When you handle everything with integrety and honor you will be a success.

Should be titled 'EntreChristianLeadership'

Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?

No - While there is some good advice from Dave's experience, I was happy when it ended. Dave's style is very loud and out there and full of references to his evangelical Christian beliefs. If you're not into hearing references to the Bible etc. every 5 to 10 minutes then look elsewhere.

Any additional comments?

This is not a book for entrepreneurs that want to have staff that can innovate. This book is more about how to motivate and control staff, not inspire them to innovate new products or product features.

Seriously?

Love Dave Ramsey, but this is way too basic information. I already know about setting goals, the use of the assumptive clause when selling etc... This book is mostly a re-hash of the abundant leadership/sales literature. The chapter on hiring is probably the best one of the lot.

Got the audiobook to listen while reading it

Leading by example is a big thing. The audiobook doesn’t match up to the actual book. To many shortcuts and skipped sections I’m getting lost and possibly loosing part of the points. Sorry to say this but very disappointed so far.

lifted from several books and not that positive

What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?

postive attitude towards looking at things. Message given in books is like hard to releate

What could Dave Ramsey have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?

being original

How could the performance have been better?

using different tone

If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Entreleadership?

none

Any additional comments?

none

You work for me so worship me.

The demand for Dave Ramseys employee's to worship him because he gave them a job put me right off the book and Dave Ramsey. The arrogance of the author is obvious. I have never heard so many power hungry statements in one book. Mr Ramsey you are not God nor are you the pope so stop demanding hard working people neal and kiss your feet. Your "team" work for you that's it, you don't own there souls. I was a very avid follower of Dave Ramsey, however after reading this book especially the last four chapters I am sure you have a narcissistic personality and have a God complex. This book turned real dark real quick.

This has totally changes my perspective

I have just finished and will need to update this review as I take the time to think about and implement what has been shared but this is certainly a must buy. I had to stop and share this book several times throughout.

Dave has earned my respect as someone who not only knows his stuff but is also a man of action! He still uses this stuff today and he wins. 20 years of business wisdom in less than 6 hours - priceless!

Fantastic advice and excellent stewardship of business done right.

Learnt heaps, excited to put ideas into actions.

Thanks Dave Ramsey for honouring God and biblical wisdom, making running a business exciting, simple and a lifelong race.

A great practical business guide

A great practical business book that gives invaluable insight into running and scaling a company over time

Amazing advice from Dave Ramsey

Really helpful. As a new entrepreneur I was only focusing on the Technology, business ideas etc but finance was always my last worry, never gave much thought about planning finances upfront effectively. I always thought I can easily get a business loan or can raise funding but after listening to this my thought process has changed massively on how to handle business finances. I highly recommend the book. There may be some areas like hiring people, setting objectives etc that I feel are not very relevant now specially post COVID world but the principles remain the same.

Thanks Dave for this pearl of wisdom.

Takes you from small business to big business

Ramsey explains clearly how he has developed his management style and developed his team over the decades from a small business to big business and the key principles to managing both people and money learned and honed along the way.

A book read by its author is usually better and this is no exception. his passion for what he does shines though. His reading style is very lively and makes you want to get up and do stuff so I recommend it as day time listening rather than just before bed listening.

There are practical parts that are more relevant to the US (I am in the UK) but the message and focus in each chapter is translatable to running a business and just how to manage a team in the UK whether you manage a team within a organisation or you are managing a small business or a big business. The people management skills talked about along side the financial management* is invaluable.

*the financial tips I felt are a an extension of his book 'The Total Money Makeover' (which I have been reading a hard copy of at the same time); applying a lot of the same principles just on a larger scale for a business and team, rather than a home and family.

I wish my organisation would read this book.

solid advice, small Christian quotes.

would prefer a more comprehensive delve into his business. very logical and solid objectives, could be a bit more candid. overall a good book.

become an entreleader!

clearly audible easy listening. you need to know about DISC personality test. very useful tool for any good team.

Outstanding!

Great and convicting presentation so helpful and real to my life circumstances.

Highly recommend it to listen and learn truth.

You talk about sales, you bought my vote.

I'm only on chapter 10 at the time of writing this review, but i can honestly say how great of a book this is. The advice given will last you a lifetime.

This book is well worth the listen and i can only hope i find more like this!