Build a Business Not a Job: Grow Your Business & Get Your Life Back
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Break Free from Your Business and Get Your Life Back
What if you could have real freedom in your business and spend more time with the people that matter most?
What if you could spend your days doing work that matters for people who really care…and be profitable every month?
What if you could accelerate your company’s growth while working less hours?
David Finkel is an ex-Olympic-level athlete turned business multimillionaire and is one of the nation’s most respected business thinkers. Over the past 20 years, David and the Maui Mastermind Coaches and Advisors have personally scaled companies with an aggregate market value of $63 billion.
Stephanie Harkness is a serial entrepreneur with more than 35 years’ experience and eight successful businesses under her direct leadership. She shepherded over 100 start-ups through funding by venture capitalists with the expected outcome of acquisition or IPO.
Together, in Build a Business, Not a Jobthey give you a concrete, step-by-step map to build an owner-independent company and get your life back.
Reading this book, you’ll learn:
The only sustainable way to escape the Self-Employment Trap™.The 4 most costly excuses that hold business owners back.The 8 essential building blocks upon which to scale your company.25 formats to package your business systems.A powerful 1-page quarterly action plan.Six time-mastery strategies to free up a full day each week to build your business.You will also find super-inspiring true stories:How a skilled surgeon tamed his medical practice not by working more, but rather by empowering his systems, team, and culture to do more.How a contractor escaped the 70-hour-a-week trap, doubled his sales, and cut his work hours in half (and how you can do it too.)How a second-generation manufacturer took over his family business and brought it from the brink of failure torecord profits.How a niche software company owner grew her company’s market value tenfold, while at the same time enjoying a greater sense of time freedom than she ever thought possible.
Those stories demonstrate that you can “have it all”: less stress, faster growth, less working hours, more profits.
Pick up your copy today and build an owner-independent company to get your life back.
Publisher : Maui Mastermind, LLC
Publication date : May 28, 2025
Language : English
Print length : 158 pages
ISBN-10 : 1958545015
ISBN-13 : 978-1958545010
Item Weight : 7.8 ounces
Dimensions : 6 x 0.36 x 9 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #16,529 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #15 in Systems & Planning #48 in Entrepreneurship (Books) #79 in Business Management (Books)
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Bill Lockton –
If you’re a business owner or about to be one, Read This Book!
David Finkel addresses head-on the pervasive problem I noted during my stint as a business consultant – business owners invariably get so caught up in the day-to-day aspects of their businesses that they lose sight of their original intentions. It’s not uncommon for them to feel trapped by the very businesses they thought were going to free them up. The statistics are that most businesses we start are fairly small – only about 6% gross more than $5 million annually. The average business owner works 52 hours a week, and 20% of us work 7 days a week. We had more free time in our 9-5 jobs! How do you fix that?Whereas I would help people realign with their original intentions when founding their businesses, David takes it a step or two farther and helps them realize their true desire was to start something that could develop a life of its own and allow them to step aside to do something else, whether that’s to create a new business, retire, or continue on in a manner that doesn’t make the company reliant upon them any longer. Instead, most of us have created something that depends almost entirely upon us. That’s why he calls what we’ve created for ourselves a “job”, and he wants to help us transition from that into making it a business. There are steps to go through to do that and he lays them out very clearly.While ultimately this book could be an advertisement for his firm’s consulting services (and I would consider it when my business grows to that point; I have met many people what have multiplied their companies’ sales and their own incomes, all while increasing their free time), this NOT one of those books that give tons of teasers for you to contract them to find out the “real” story. It stands on its own. One of the guiding principles he teaches is to always give a lot of value in every contact, and he does in this book. You may end up wanting to subscribe to his free email or attend one of his free seminars or webinars; lots of value in those as well. You don’t need to, however. This book is worth it on its own – if for no other reason than it gives you a new perspective as to what is possible with your business. It’s much more than that, though. It lays out the steps for you to get there. I recommend it to all my entrepreneur friends, and to you, too.Hope this was helpful.
Michael Anderson –
Best book on creating business systems that I have ever read!
I have run my own small construction business for more than 30 years. This is by far the best book I have ever read on systemizing a business to make it operate more smoothly. It is not a long book but it is packed full of not only ideas but processes to create and implement systems. Definitely a game changer!
Jodi Breau –
Useful
I found the suggestions useful and can relate to the personal stories. Especially the excuses sited. The question I ask myself is, if I stop working or selling my product to work on systems and hiring employees I can’t afford, where will my sales be in a few months.To focus on David’s suggestions would require time I don’t have right now.
MJ –
Elegant Solutions for Moving Beyond the Rat Wheel for Entrepreneurs
David Finkel is brilliant in the way he methodically breaks down how to get out of running in circles as an entrepreneur. In this book he lays out very clearly and powerfully what to do in three different stages of your business’s development. One of the most outstanding aspects of his work is the simplicity with which he approaches the whole thing. Mark Twain once wrote, “If I had had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.” David clearly took the time to develop a simple, elegant straight-forward, doable approach to getting out of the rat race as an entrepreneur. He writes about all aspects of building a real business so it doesn’t run you… he covers how anyone can add people to your team, even if you think you can’t afford to.For myself, I always thought that I was the only one who could do XYZ in my business. Through David’s book as well as his workshops, I have learned there is a process to breaking down everything. He excels in creating systems that work for the smallest one-person company up to multi-billion dollar companies. I highly recommend this book and David’s training courses. He basically gives you the knowledge you would learn in an MBA, but only the stuff that you actually need.
Danny –
Thank you
Very good book
jordi vallet –
Too basic for me
Not for experienced businessmen, but good for students and new business owners
Brittney Jackson –
Actually Helpful
I read a lot of business books as a young entrepreneur. This book is ACTUALLY worth the read. I’ve tabbed, highlighted, and made several notes.
CaptainCraboo –
Coherent and Useful
As a business owner, many books are frustrating to read as they are filled with cliche-like generalizations from so-called “experts”, but offer no real substance.”Build a Business Not a Job” was different, it brought forth incredibly valuable information in a way that was easily graspable.I was first impressed with the short chapters, logical key points, and use of real-life examples and stories from other business professionals.The content was relevant to me and my business and included forms and other resources. You really get a lot more than you expect with this book, it’s worth every penny!
Gautam –
very useful
Keith Farrell –
Fantastic. I wish I had read this years ago when starting my business. It would have made a huge difference.
Gary G. Labute –
I pretty decent book Lot of good information
A. Davis –
Made some excellent points new entrepreneurs should consider.