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Idea to Execution
- How to Optimize, Automate, and Outsource Everything in Your Business
- Narrated by: Drew Birdseye
- Length: 2 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Business & Careers
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Please download the supplementary PDF for a list of the figures referenced in the audio.
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- Greg C.
- 08-09-21
Too much personal story
Full disclosure, I only got halfway through but…
Too much personal story and not enough actionable points. It felt a little more like it was advertising their business and what they do and how they do it. Yes one could take from it, but it’d be better if the author spent time on theoretical principles, or more concrete ways people can implement them.
Not an awful book in the least, but could be better for sure.
3 people found this helpful
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- Schmidt
- 30-08-21
Easy listen very insightful
This is not necessarily a how to book, but rather a case study and story of best practice of a start up company. Very insightful.
2 people found this helpful
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- Anonymous User
- 14-11-21
This book is one big ad. Just repeating the same.
Just repeating the same. Just repeating the same.Just repeating the same. Just repeating the same. and thats it.
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- Jeff Harvey
- 07-10-21
Not too many nuggets but they are there
Basically it’s the storey of how they created a business but only give snippets of what they are at and tools the use.
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- alexandra niculescu
- 06-07-22
the story of a lucky and successful business unicorn
not really a how to in any way, the book’s main message is basically written on the cover: optimize, automate, outsource. there - that should save you about 3 hours of your time :)
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- kelly
- 03-07-22
Gives me hope
I am currently in the process of integrating systems within my company and to be able to hear the processes and the successes that came from trials and errors - it makes me so excited to continue going!
Definitely will listen again to ensure I write all the notes possible!
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- Mrs Beverley Lawrence
- 31-05-22
Frighteningly familiar!
What a great story, I couldn’t believe how similar it is to our own with the company I co-founded, gave a useful view into a possible future, very easy to listen to
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- Susan
- 22-04-22
Very Detailed
I found it quite detailed and I have learnt some precious gems that can be applied in my business.
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- Sian Finn
- 08-04-22
Excellent case study and tips!
Packed with value and inspiration, an insight into efficiency, purpose and strategy - thank you gentleman!
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- CriticalTorque
- 30-03-22
Seems like they are just advertising their services
Gave up as it felt mainly like they were advertising their business and services.
Not recommend.
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- Chyna
- 11-09-21
This book wasn’t for me
Tons of advertising for software that they use in their business. I listened to the entire book just to get it off of my feed.
4 people found this helpful
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- M. Dillon
- 22-04-21
Deleted after 30 minutes
This feels more like an ad for the author’s business than a helpful book for me.
4 people found this helpful
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- LJ Garvey
- 09-02-17
more like how to automate "our" business
I thought this book was going to be about helping me automate and outsourced my life but really it was about a story of how they built an Outsourcing company and the tools they use. It was a good story for sure but in the end it didn't really help me out at all
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- Nick
- 05-01-22
Don’t waste your time
Seeing as this whole book is about “optimization” it should do more than waste the readers time. Frankly, it’s just a couple tools pontificating about how cleverly they started a business without prioritizing their efforts. Glad to have spent an hour listening to this just to realize that maybe the whole book is about learning when you are wasting your time. If that was the case it does work. There’s literally a million better books in this space to guide and actually help.
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- Larry Escher
- 27-12-21
Not a "How to" but a "How we did" brag book.
Is other than name dropping a bunch of apps they used and briefly describing how they used them, this book was barely worth the price… free. But not worth the time.
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- Anonymous User
- 05-09-21
Concise but complete
It was very helpful To see the real process for the creation of the company
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- alexander williams
- 17-07-20
good read, listened to it twice
use the tools and ideas in this book, and your business will run itself, great process O.A.O
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- Robert ONeill
- 29-11-19
Actionable processes
Great content. Actionable processes we are rapidly putting into place. Ari is an insightful thinker and doer and inspires you to action. The narrator is a little glib as he confidently pretends to understand the words he is reading in a booth and would be good talking head for anchorman 2. He proves that credibility has to be earned and cannot be outsourced.
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- Albert
- 18-01-17
Good info but...
Took to long to get to the meat. The front end of the book came off like a verbal infomercial that would never end. Once I forwarded past all of the sales pitch for the company I found the rest of the book for the most part pretty informative...
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- Melissa
- 22-07-22
Pleasantly surprised
Very valuable and motivating information! I am excited to share this with my network and apply steps in my own business.