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Awakening the Entrepreneur Within

Written by: Michael E. Gerber
Narrated by: Michael E. Gerber
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  • 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.
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    ©2008 Michael E. Gerber (P)2008 HarperCollins Publishers
    Small Business & Entrepreneurship Personal Success
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    Inspiring, but Not Sure how to Put it Together

    As many have said, I think that E-Myth is a more practical, hands-on book that will give you a clear direction for a business. Awakening the Entrepreneur Within tries to create a similar framework like E-Myth did. But unlike E-Myth's Technician, Manager, and Entrepreneur, Awakening's Dreamer, Thinker, and...the other two I can't remember, don't fit as well.

    Awakening's four parts of the Entrepreneur's mind can sometimes blur together and don't have as clear and defined roles in our creative entrepreneurial process. They aren't as intuitive and therefore aren't as memorable (as you can see, I've forgotten two).

    However, this did encourage me to take greater leaps in imagining a business, and be braver in dreaming. There is a useful example company that Gerber develops with great depth, and very clear and useful steps for building a company in the last chapter. As many other reviews on Goodreads say, it's a decent book for developing ideas and maybe a more Entrepreneurial mindset, but for more practical information, try E-Myth. P.S. Gerber does pitch his new business the Dreaming Room in one chapter, but the book is not a promo for it and he moves on. There's a lot more. Also, the author's narration is great.

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    I did not care

    This was awful!

    The whole book was about his dream to create this new business to help disenfranchised latinx kids in the United States. It's super niche. There was no effort to relate to other types of businesses or types of business or to the reader in general.

    I swear, if you took out the phrase "Who is Manny Espinoza?" (the name of his newfound business), the book would be half the length it is now... that's how often it's repeated! Talk about padding your content!

    When the business concept was first introduced, I thought it was an interesting idea, but I was ready to move on to the more generalized concepts. But by the middle of the book I was so sick of hearing about it. I struggled to finish the book. And it was not a rewarding experience.

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