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 Job they 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 to record 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. Read more
Editor's Take
Build a Business, Not a Job: Grow Your Business & Get Your Life Back draws mixed-to-positive feedback from readers. Amazon reviewers describe it as instructive, helpful, and practical, especially for business owners who want to build systems and reduce owner-dependence. Goodreads has at least one sharply negative review calling it a pitch-heavy book with too much self-promotion and not enough value. SoBrief’s summary also characterizes reader sentiment as mixed: many appreciate the guidance on creating an owner-independent business, while others criticize it as repetitive and not especially original.
- Amazon reviewers say the book is insightful, timely, and useful for entrepreneurs and beginners.
- Amazon reviewers also note short chapters, logical structure, real-life examples, and clear writing.
- Goodreads reviewers say some editions feel more like a sales pitch than a practical business guide.
- SoBrief notes readers are split between valuing the scaling advice and finding the content repetitive.
A YouTube review result exists for this exact title, along with other related YouTube summaries and interviews about the book.
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Specifications
| 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 | #248,791 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #33 in Service Industry (Books) #203 in Strategy & Competition #391 in Strategic Business Planning |
| Customer Reviews | 4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars (672) |
