Build a Business You Love: Mastering the 5 Stages of Business

Business leaders face all kinds of challenges and fears as they work to grow their business. Dave Ramsey gets it—because he’s been there. Over the past 30 years, he and his team have taken some right (and plenty of wrong) turns as they worked to build his one-man financial counseling business into Ramsey Solutions, a $250 million company with over 1,000 team members. Now, Dave is sharing what he’s learned from walking through three decades of business growth—so you can grow your business faster with fewer missteps.

In Build a Business You Love, Dave lays out the EntreLeadership System, the road map that takes the guesswork out of growth for business owners like you. Because after more than a decade of helping leaders grow their businesses—and through direct experience with his own company—Dave has found that there are five distinct stages of growth every business has to conquer to reach its potential:

Stage 1: Treadmill Operator

Stage 2: Pathfinder

Stage 3: Trailblazer

Stage 4: Peak Performer

Stage 5: Legacy Builder

Throughout the book, Dave breaks down each of the stages and their unique challenges in detail to help you solve the right problems, at the right time, in the right way. You’ll learn how to navigate everything business ownership throws at you—from hiring the right people, to finding and training leaders, to creating and operating a budget, to nailing down strategic plans that get results, and more.

Build a Business You Love is the essential guide for business owners who want to grow their business the right way and leave a legacy they’re proud of.

Grab your copy and join the thousands of business owners who have transformed their business by learning to leverage the EntreLeadership System—the proven plan to help you grow yourself, lead your team, and scale your business.

Knowing which stage of business we're in tells us what our next goals and challenges are-which mountaintop to climb next. Then we know what to do, when to do it, and how to do it. That's been amazing.

Joe Murphy, Integrity Support Inc.

The EntreLeadership System has had a profound impact on my business and my family. I was able to take three months off work earlier this year due to a family emergency, and my business still had its best tax season in years. Being able to step away for 90 days and still see incredible results is a testament to the impact of the EntreLeadership framework.

Renee Daggett, AdminBooks

The work that l've done within the EntreLeadership System has given me more confidence about what I'm doing, which has helped me gain respect with my business partner-who is also my brother. It's changed our working relationship for the better.

Todd Dockerty, Dockerty Health Care Services

Before EntreLeadership, we didn't have a clear direction for where we were going. One of the big keys for us was implementing a mission, vision, and core values. Now everyone understands where we're going and why, and how we're getting there. It's completely changed our business and allowed us to be more profitable with 90 people than we were with 135 people.

Josh Bradford, Altitude Energy LLC

The EntreLeadership System has given me the tools to bring calm to chaos, courage and candor to anxious team members, and clarity to the mission and vision God has for me I am living life again with the confidence that I can leave the office and know that clients will be treated the way I would treat them, and I can focus on my time with my family.

James Kreitler, Kreitler Law Firm LLC