Think Five Moves Ahead

Know Yourself

Before any strategy, before any plan, before any move on the board: you must know who you are. Bet-David argues that self-knowledge is the most underrated competitive advantage in business.

The Ability to Reason

Good strategists are not just knowledgeable. They reason well under pressure, evaluate information without emotional distortion, and make decisions that serve their goals rather than their fears or vanity.

Building the Right Team

No one builds something significant alone. Bet-David's third move is about how to identify, recruit, and retain the people whose skills and character will determine whether your strategy actually executes.

Strategy to Scale

The strategies that get a business to its first milestone are almost never the strategies that take it to the next one. Bet-David explains how to think about scaling without destroying what made the business work in the first place.

Mastering Power Plays

Business is not always fair, and naive entrepreneurs who pretend otherwise pay for it. Bet-David teaches how to see the power dynamics in any business situation and move strategically rather than reactively.

Thinking Five Moves Ahead

The title of the book comes from chess: grandmasters do not just react to the last move. They project five moves into the future. Bet-David argues that this habit of anticipatory thinking separates reactive businesspeople from strategic ones.

Your Moves, Your Game

Bet-David's closing argument: strategy is personal. The moves that work for one entrepreneur will not work for another. The final discipline is synthesising everything you know about yourself, your team, and your environment into a strategy that is genuinely yours.