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Everyone Is an Entrepreneur: Selling Economic Self-Determination in a Post-Soviet World

by Gregory V. Diehl

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Westerners today grow up with abundant opportunities to determine their own values, identities, and roles in society. But for generations, millions who lived under Soviet rule in the USSR had these essential freedoms withheld, determined instead by a central authority that claimed the right to choose for them and enforce their compliance. Thirty years after the Soviet Union's decisive collapse, the old communist paradigm continues to limit those who come of age in a post-Soviet world. Everyone Is an Entrepreneur showcases the experience of an American author acclimating to life in the developing post-Soviet economy of Armenia. Along the way, he examines how the intelligent and hardworking people he lives among are stuck in a state of transition away from all-encompassing, bureaucratic control. They struggle to adjust to the responsibilities of economic self-determination because they have never learned how to see the world through entrepreneurial eyes. Entrepreneurship is a principled way of seeing the world, a paradigm that applies to people in all cultural and economic circumstances: artists, office workers, doctors, teachers, farmers, and laborers alike. By adopting this universal outlook, anyone can produce more wealth, accomplish bigger goals, and take control of their life like never before.… (more)
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I was expecting this book to focus more on the business culture of post-Soviet Armenia, based on the author's experiences living and working there. While there are some interesting anecdotes that show the extent to which the Soviet-era central planning affected and continues to affect the Armenians' outlook with regard to economics, this book itself is largely devoted to the author's own ideas of entrepreneurship. He clearly and concisely spells out definitions of a wide variety of common terms and concepts, from "economy" to fungibility" to "wealth."
For someone with a background in business, or who's read a few business or motivational books, this book will largely be a rehash (though perhaps more clearly organized and laid out). But for someone with no such previous experience or education, who's thinking about going into business for themselves, this book could provide a good foundation for learning to think like an entrepreneur. ( )
  ThinkingGuy | Aug 16, 2022 |
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This book gives some views and definitions regarding an entrepreneur economy that I had not thought of in the past. It is interesting seeing the difference of applying entrepreneur ideas in a post society society versus what we typically see in America or other western countries ( )
  Crystal199 | Jul 13, 2022 |
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A copy of this book was provided through Early Reviewers for the purpose of this review. Diehl's Everyone is an Entrepreneur has a good writing styles allows the reader to easily consume the work if it a subject of their interest, and the general description of the workings of markets and economic systems are well detailed and factual (at least by all accounts of this reviewer). This would make the book a fairly serviceable work for one to introduce themselves into capitalist economics and entrepreneurship. However, it seems that Diehl does lay out the ground work the frame for an entrepreneurial mindset, he downplays the usually higher risk with such a mindset. The work's unique prospective that Diehl offers with his experiences in post-Soviet Armenia also do seem to offer some quite valid criticisms of Western economic practices, such as government involvement. While this is not a negative in it of itself, it does not note that many successful business leaders have benefited from such. With all things considered I would recommend Everyone is an Entrepreneur as a supplement to be read with other works on economics. It is one part biography, two part intro economics, and the remainder an economic treatise with a unique prospective. It provides useful advise that can be effective in improving a person's business mindset, but as the preface points out, is not the end all book to increasing sales and management performance. ( )
  NKillham | Jun 16, 2022 |
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"Everyone Is an Entrepreneur is an intriguing economics text addressed to post-Soviet Bloc audiences who are interested in business development... Its general lessons and more specific cultural ideas complement each other, resulting in a compelling picture of the changes wrought by economic shifts. Diehl ably captures a society that's still adapting within the global marketplace."
 
"An intelligent exploration of the psychology of the entrepreneur and the toxic effects of authoritarianism. Diehl explains the stultifying legacy of authoritarianism, the path out of it, and the worldview of the entrepreneur with admirable clarity and concision... This is an impressively perspicacious book, and one that should be invaluable for aspiring entrepreneurs from wherever they hail."
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"Everyone Is an Entrepreneur will shatter false illusions of wealth and start you down a path that will lead to financial utility and self-determination."
 
"(Everyone Is an Entrepreneur) is not a 'how to get rich quick' self-help manual, but a comparison of different lifestyles; those of a tyrannically controlled economy and a society where financial freedom is encouraged and respected. Diehl reasons that how human beings thrive, their comfort level, and rise from poverty are determined by knowledge, skills, and the willingness to work hard and take calculated risks. This unique book is a fascinating comparison between the creative mind, self-determination, and free enterprise juxtaposed against the obedient mind of socialist societies."
 
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Westerners today grow up with abundant opportunities to determine their own values, identities, and roles in society. But for generations, millions who lived under Soviet rule in the USSR had these essential freedoms withheld, determined instead by a central authority that claimed the right to choose for them and enforce their compliance. Thirty years after the Soviet Union's decisive collapse, the old communist paradigm continues to limit those who come of age in a post-Soviet world. Everyone Is an Entrepreneur showcases the experience of an American author acclimating to life in the developing post-Soviet economy of Armenia. Along the way, he examines how the intelligent and hardworking people he lives among are stuck in a state of transition away from all-encompassing, bureaucratic control. They struggle to adjust to the responsibilities of economic self-determination because they have never learned how to see the world through entrepreneurial eyes. Entrepreneurship is a principled way of seeing the world, a paradigm that applies to people in all cultural and economic circumstances: artists, office workers, doctors, teachers, farmers, and laborers alike. By adopting this universal outlook, anyone can produce more wealth, accomplish bigger goals, and take control of their life like never before.

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