Your Next Five Moves

Business and economics

Print length: 320 pagesGallery Books, 2020

Description

Patrick Bet-David treats business strategy as a chess problem: leaders gain an advantage by understanding the position now and anticipating several moves beyond the immediate crisis. The book organizes that discipline around five areas—knowing oneself, strengthening the ability to reason, assembling the right team, developing a strategy for scale, and mastering consequential power plays. Bet-David uses entrepreneurial examples and his own business experience to show how ambition, identity, incentives, competition, and timing influence decisions. Practical questions ask readers to clarify what they want, diagnose constraints, and consider how other people are likely to respond. The emphasis is less on a single formula than on building the habit of sequencing decisions so today's action creates stronger options tomorrow.

Reading profile

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Collected’s assessment, not reader ratings. Complexity runs from 1 (least demanding) to 5 (most demanding).

Writing: How much attention the sentences and language require.
Ideas: How much interpretation or abstract reasoning the book asks of you.
Structure: How much you need to keep track of speakers, timelines and connections.
Background knowledge: Prior knowledge needed to follow the book, beyond what it explains.
Emotional intensity: Emotional pressure, from gentle (1) to intense (5). Separate from difficulty.

Writing style

Conversational · Direct

Pace

Moderate

Tone

Cerebral · Earnest · Uplifting

Structure

Argumentative

Focus

Argument · Ideas · Information

Emotional intensity

2 / 5

Reading complexity

1–5 · higher means more demanding

Writing: 2 / 5
Ideas: 3 / 5
Structure: 2 / 5
Background knowledge: 2 / 5

Themes

AmbitionIdentityPowerWealthWork

About Patrick Bet-David

Patrick Bet-David is an Iranian-born entrepreneur and media founder whose early life as a refugee, service in the U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne, and career in financial services inform his business writing. He writes as a practitioner, turning experience in company building into direct frameworks for entrepreneurs and executives. His characteristic method is sequential and operational: diagnostic questions, lists, and staged plans help readers clarify goals, anticipate consequences, build teams, and pursue growth. Your Next Five Moves makes this strategic outlook explicit through its chess metaphor, while Choose Your Enemies Wisely joins formal planning to competitive emotion, treating adversaries as motivation that must be disciplined by logic and a concrete plan.

About Greg Dinkin

Greg Dinkin is a business and gambling writer who works as both a principal author and a credited collaborator. Drawing on management consulting, MBA training, and practical poker experience, he treats strategy as a matter of probability, leverage, and choices made under uncertainty. The Poker MBA moves from poker anecdotes and business cases to explanations of expected value, regression to the mean, and arbitrage, then closes chapters with practical takeaways. In Your Next Five Moves, written with Patrick Bet-David, chess supplies a structure for sequencing decisions about identity, teams, growth, and power. His work with gambler Amarillo Slim shifts from instruction to memoir, organizing high-stakes contests, hustlers, and celebrities into a broader life story.

Book details

For the print edition listed above.

Publisher: Gallery Books
Language: English
ISBN: 9781982154806

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