The idea of the Entrepreneur Revolution is that the rules that created commercial success in the past have radically changed. Doing what worked yesterday may not bring you success tomorrow.

For some people, this will be a time of great uncertainty and loss. For others, it will be the greatest opportunity in history.

An entrepreneur is simply someone who spots an opportunity and acts to make it into a commercial success.

This book is written to help you to become better at spotting opportunities and turning them into a commercial success.

A revolution is a great shift in society, where an old system is thrown out and a new one is embraced. In all of history, the real fortunes are made in revolutionary times. The difference with this revolution is that it presents a chance for wealth to spread to a lot more people. The tools, technology and opportunities that have shown up recently are designed to empower people. Lots of people.

Today, farmers in rural India have access to more computing power in a smartphone than the US Department of Defense and Energy had in 1990.

Today, a teenager in their bedroom has more tools for building a global enterprise than Coca-Cola did when it grew internationally.

Today, your business ideas have more potential to be massive than ever before in history.

With that said, it's not the land of milk and honey either. We live in challenging times, where more people than ever are being edged out of traditional jobs and forced into a more entrepreneurial path. There are millions of businesses all shouting about how great they are, and all that noise makes it hard to stand out. We have a political climate of upheaval; whole industries are being disrupted and planet earth is changing more than any other time in modern history.

More than ever, you must have an entrepreneurial mindset that can see opportunity and make a success of any circumstances you find yourself in.

For whatever reason, you were born to live through these transformational times. You weren't born to live in the dark ages as a serf, you weren't born to live in the agricultural age as a farmer, you weren't born to live in the industrial age as a factory worker. You are alive during a unique point in history; a time when anything is possible for you.

This book is here to wake up the part of you that can spot opportunities and make them successful. Not just any opportunities, but those that are right for you.

In these pages you will discover that there's a part of your brain that is already highly entrepreneurial and wants to build something you can be proud of. You'll discover exactly how to create a product or service, and build a small team that performs like a much bigger business. You'll find your ‘entrepreneur sweet spot’ where you do what you love, you do it well and you get rewarded generously for it.

This book will challenge you too. I've laid out several challenges for you to get started on almost immediately. They are designed to push your buttons and get you out of your comfort zone.

I'll give you a way of creating a high-performance culture within a small dynamic team, so that no matter how many complex decisions you face, you will always continue to move forward.

I've also hidden a few little gems in this book – ideas that I refer to, but don't specifically reveal in black and white.

There's an underlying theme, relating to a key ingredient that you need if you really want to be successful. You might spot it straight away, or it might come to you later.

YOU MIGHT WANT TO READ THIS BOOK MORE THAN ONCE

This new ingredient hasn't been necessary in business up until this point but, from now on, it must be at the very heart of what you do. When you spot this ingredient, put it into everything you do.

I'm going to mention this ingredient many times in the book, but I can't say what it is specifically for you – it's different for you than for me. I will leave you to find it for yourself, because only you can do that.

When you read through this book, I want you to have a sense of curiosity and look for specific ideas that inspire you, stories that light you up and clues to what you are passionate about doing.

The beginning is important and the end will unfold but, at the centre, you might discover a mountain of value you never noticed when you first looked.

Sometimes people read this book and ‘get it’; other times they don't right away. Some people get it on the second or third read. I've not hidden this key ingredient from you; if anything, it's actually right under your nose.

Whatever you do, don't stop looking. You simply can't build a successful enterprise without this ingredient in the Entrepreneur Revolution.

Good luck. I hope you love reading this book.