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Wind In Your Sails
David Greer has a mission—to take his thirty-five years of entrepreneurial experience and share it with other entrepreneurs to accelerate their success. Of all the things you as an entrepreneur can focus on, getting clear on the strategy and purpose of your business drives progress the fastest. Whether this is a strategic focus on your markets and products, the customers you serve, or the culture you build to allow your employees to grow and flourish in their careers. As a hard driven entrepreneur, David shares both the thinking and the practices that will deliver success for you and your business.
As a life-long sailor, David relates his personal experiences—in business and in life to the challenges of growing a business. While you can beat your way against the wind, successful entrepreneurs learn to harness their efforts to seamlessly blow them in the direction they want to go. Spend one hour reading Wind In Your Sails and you will always have three ideas that will accelerate your business in the next 90 days.
What are you waiting for?
As a life-long sailor, David relates his personal experiences—in business and in life to the challenges of growing a business. While you can beat your way against the wind, successful entrepreneurs learn to harness their efforts to seamlessly blow them in the direction they want to go. Spend one hour reading Wind In Your Sails and you will always have three ideas that will accelerate your business in the next 90 days.
What are you waiting for?
202 pages, Paperback
First published April 13, 2015
159 people want to read
About the author
David J. Greer
4 books6 followersWhile still in university getting his degree in computer science, David joined Robelle Solutions Technology as the first employee after the founders. After joining Robelle, he got permission from his 4th year professors to take a week off so he could fly to an international conference to give his first ever technical presentation.
During David’s tenure as co-owner and President of Robelle, he traveled the world giving a new presentation every year, building Robelle into the world’s leading provider of HP 3000 solutions. He is a co-author of The IMAGE/3000 Handbook, the reference work for the HP 3000 IMAGE database management system.
After leaving Robelle, David has been an angel investor, director, and senior executive to numerous companies always working 1-on-1 with entrepreneurs to grow their business. In 2015, he became an entrepreneurial coach and launched his book Wind In Your Sails: Vital Strategies to Accelerate Your Entrepreneurial Growth. Spend one hour reading Wind In Your Sails, attend a one hour talk with him, or get one hour of 1-to-1 coaching and you will have 3 concrete action items that will shift and accelerate your business within 90 days.
In his spare time, David enjoys the beauty, water, and mountains of the Vancouver area, while taking occasional adventure breaks with his wife, Karalee. David and Karalee are committed to their three children, spending time supporting them in the many and varied activities they are involved with, including skiing together as a family in Whistler.
When not writing books, coaching, or speaking, you might find David hiking, skiing, or sailing across oceans.
During David’s tenure as co-owner and President of Robelle, he traveled the world giving a new presentation every year, building Robelle into the world’s leading provider of HP 3000 solutions. He is a co-author of The IMAGE/3000 Handbook, the reference work for the HP 3000 IMAGE database management system.
After leaving Robelle, David has been an angel investor, director, and senior executive to numerous companies always working 1-on-1 with entrepreneurs to grow their business. In 2015, he became an entrepreneurial coach and launched his book Wind In Your Sails: Vital Strategies to Accelerate Your Entrepreneurial Growth. Spend one hour reading Wind In Your Sails, attend a one hour talk with him, or get one hour of 1-to-1 coaching and you will have 3 concrete action items that will shift and accelerate your business within 90 days.
In his spare time, David enjoys the beauty, water, and mountains of the Vancouver area, while taking occasional adventure breaks with his wife, Karalee. David and Karalee are committed to their three children, spending time supporting them in the many and varied activities they are involved with, including skiing together as a family in Whistler.
When not writing books, coaching, or speaking, you might find David hiking, skiing, or sailing across oceans.
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April 17, 2015
David J. Greer is quite a sailor ... and he writes pretty good too:).
In this small volume, David has collected a large amount of business wisdom gained both through his own experience and that of many others, whose stories are sprinkled like golden nuggets throughout the pages and chapters.
I am not always impressed by someone else's story, because each person, including myself, has unique skills and attitudes, experiences and challenges, and environments to travel. That said, the stories in this book are particularly useful, because they are relatively short and focus on specific aspects of succeeding in your work.
Each chapter is organized in fairly short chunks, so you do not feel like you have a ton of reading to get to the good stuff. Even better, each chapter is a mini-book in itself. I normally read from front to back ... I'm a linear type of guy. Wind in Your Sails had me jumping around to those topics of particular interest and you can easily do this.
If your experience is like mine, once you have dived into the most interesting parts, you will experience a distinct desire to read all the rest, even the stuff you normally would skip. The book is that good ...
If you did not go to business school or need a solid refresher in how to manage your business effectively, take a cruise on blue water with David J. Greer ... you are in very good hands.
In this small volume, David has collected a large amount of business wisdom gained both through his own experience and that of many others, whose stories are sprinkled like golden nuggets throughout the pages and chapters.
I am not always impressed by someone else's story, because each person, including myself, has unique skills and attitudes, experiences and challenges, and environments to travel. That said, the stories in this book are particularly useful, because they are relatively short and focus on specific aspects of succeeding in your work.
Each chapter is organized in fairly short chunks, so you do not feel like you have a ton of reading to get to the good stuff. Even better, each chapter is a mini-book in itself. I normally read from front to back ... I'm a linear type of guy. Wind in Your Sails had me jumping around to those topics of particular interest and you can easily do this.
If your experience is like mine, once you have dived into the most interesting parts, you will experience a distinct desire to read all the rest, even the stuff you normally would skip. The book is that good ...
If you did not go to business school or need a solid refresher in how to manage your business effectively, take a cruise on blue water with David J. Greer ... you are in very good hands.
May 23, 2015
A great book that takes the concept of the best strategies of business development and coincides it with how to succeed in sailing techniques, this book offers much advice with lessons learned and realized in the relationships between the two. Greer shows how these methods can help expand and maintain your business strategies just in changing your directions slightly to movements in the fluctuating market. A great book for those starting a business to go by and those wanting to understand the best methods for expanding a business that they already have.
August 9, 2015
Great book on action! Action... Without action, all the strategy, theories of action, and key performance indicators are for naught. We must use all our tools to catch the wind and sail!
April 14, 2015
I enjoyed reading his book and learned quick a bit from it.
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