Employee to Entrepreneur
How to Earn Your Freedom and Do Work that Matters
1. Edition February 2021
280 Pages, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Make the leap and become an entrepreneur today
Are you living for the weekend? Are you dissatisfied at work? Are you itching to do something that is important to you? How can you avoid the pitfalls that many first-time entrepreneurs have fallen into? How do you explore whether entrepreneurship is right for you without giving up your day job? Employee to Entrepreneur is your guide to leaving your job behind and building something for yourself.
Author and employee-turned-entrepreneur Steve Glaveski, shows you how to navigate the challenges, find the entrepreneurial success that is right for you and become a better person along the way. Employee to Entrepreneur combines storytelling with a step-by-step framework to teach you how to effectively explore and leverage entrepreneurship to gain freedom, fulfillment and financial security.
* understand what you want to do by first understanding yourself
* explore if entrepreneurship is right for you without giving up your day job
* avoid the common pitfalls faced by first-time entrepreneurs
* fund, test and prioritise your ideas in a fast and cost-effective way
* develop the mindset to succeed in your business.
If you're ready to leave your cushy employee life behind and build a business and a life you believe in, reading this essential guidebook is your first step to making it happen.
Acknowledgements xiii
Preface xvii
1 The future is here 1
2 Collecting the dots 19
3 Finding your why 43
4 Embracing your what 59
5 An entrepreneurial mindset 101
6 Taking action 129
7 Knowing your how 139
8 Testing your ideas 169
9 Strengths and weaknesses 213
10 10× your output 219
11 Power up! 251
Final thoughts 263
Index 267
ADAM GRANT
New York Times bestselling author of ORIGINALS, GIVE AND TAKE, and OPTION B with Sheryl Sandberg
"This book is a framework to inspire aspiring innovators to make the leap--to evolve from employees/pawns of stagnant and dying corporations suffering "paralysis by analysis," to successful entrepreneurs who can embrace the right risks, walk the edge of uncertainty with confidence and good judgment, avoid (most) beginners mistakes and turn the inevitable failures into future triumphs. An optimistic book, well-articulated and worthwhile; an antidote to doomsday prophecies about the future of work."
WHITNEY JOHNSON
Thinkers50 Leading Management Thinkers, author of the bestselling Build an A Team, and critically-acclaimed Disrupt Yourself
"A must read for anyone looking to make the transition from what Steve calls 'miserably comfortable' at a large organisation to the freedom and fulfilment that comes with entrepreneurship."
CY WAKEMAN
Author of No Ego: How Leaders Can Cut the Cost of Workplace Drama, End Entitlement and Drive Big Results
"Steve takes his personal learnings from years of doing the work and packages them up into one concise book - making his hard-won insights available to all of us."
PASCAL FINETTE
Singularity University Chair for Entrepreneurship and Open Innovation
"Being a successful employee and a successful entrepreneur require two different toolkits. This book helps people acquire the tools they need to make the move successfully"
NATHAN CHAN
CEO and Publisher of Foundr Magazine
"At its core, this book is about transformation. Beyond a conversation about how you work and make money, it is a guide to re-imaging a life that you fully own."
SHERRY WALLING, PH.D.
ZenFounder
"Lots of people dream of walking the path from employed to entrepreneur, but Steve Glaveski's actually done it. Best of all, he took notes on what works and what doesn't and now he decided to show you how."
DAVID BURKUS
Author of FRIEND OF A FRIEND
