Make No Small Plans, Elliott Bisnow
Make No Small Plans, Elliott Bisnow
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Make No Small Plans
Lessons on Thinking Big, Chasing Dreams, and Building Community

Author: Elliott Bisnow, Brett Leve, Jeff Rosenthal, Jeremy Schwartz

Narrator: Elliott Bisnow

Unabridged: 7 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/12/2022


Synopsis

From the founders of the acclaimed Summit event series and community comes the story of their unconventional journey to business success and the hard lessons they learned along the way.

“[Make No Small Plans] neatly crystallizes the teachings and takeaways—basic truths—from the past fifteen years of Summiteering.”—Forbes

In 2008, with no event production experience and two college degrees between the four of them, Elliott Bisnow, Brett Leve, Jeff Rosenthal, and Jeremy Schwartz became business partners and set out to build a global events company. With passion and tenacity, they began cold calling as many inspiring company founders as they could and tried to convince them to attend their first event. In the beginning, only nineteen people said yes.

Since then, they have grown Summit into a global community with events all over the world, hosting luminaries including Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, Shonda Rhimes, Brené Brown, Kendrick Lamar, and Al Gore. In 2013, the Summit founders—with help from their behind-the-scenes co-founder and partner Ryan Begelman—acquired Powder Mountain, the largest ski resort in the United States, with a dream of building a mountaintop town of the future.

In Make No Small Plans, they reveal the triumphs, mistakes, and cornerstone lessons from their journey, which began during the Great Recession and continues today. Alongside teachings from some of the most inspiring entrepreneurs of our time, the authors offer takeaways such as:

• No idea should go unspoken.
• Reputations are earned by the drop and lost by the bucket.
• The road to success is always under construction.
• Become a favor economy millionaire.

Entertaining and empowering, Make No Small Plans shows that anyone can think big and—with a thirst for knowledge, a talented team, and a little humility—accomplish the impossible.

About Elliott Bisnow

Elliott Bisnow founded Summit Series, which has hosted thousands of young entrepreneurs at frequent events, and whose philosophy is that good business should be good for the world; Forbes called it "The Davos of Generation Y."


Reviews

Goodreads review by Blake

Meh, it's not a bad read, but it isn't overly insightful. It mainly feels like a self-congratulatory pat on the back for the authors.......more

Could not say enough about how much I love this community, book, and message. Gift it to all your entrepreneurial friends, immediately.......more

Goodreads review by Unleash

Awesome book by the founders of the acclaimed Summit event series and community. They packaged their wild journey into their new book: Make No Small Plans and it was a very captivating read for me. Summit is a community filled with the most ambitious and creative entrepreneurs that I have had my eyes......more

Goodreads review by Joe

I got interested in Summit during the pandemic, on the hunt for what do next in life, and thinking they were on to something. Online they give off certain vibes, but you get the sinking feeling that there's not much substance under the slick surface. Maybe it's just another un-conference full of tec......more


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Praise for Make No Small Plans and Summit

“[Make No Small Plans] neatly crystallizes the teachings and takeaways—basic truths—from the past 15 years of Summiteering: ‘authenticity trumps perfection,’ ‘no idea should go unspoken,’ ‘opportunities can come from anywhere,’ and ‘when you know how to listen, everybody is a guru.’”Forbes

“Making big dreams come true starts with learning the principles of those who did it before you. If you want to succeed as an entrepreneur, Make No Small Plans shows how the Summit team did it.”—Ray Dalio

“Elliott, Jeff, Brett, and Jeremy have a singular capacity to bring together leaders and inspire them to do more. I’m grateful that they have paused long enough to put their story, and their lessons, in writing.”—Christina Sass

“Summit provides a unique opportunity for thought leaders from all sectors to come together and exchange ideas to innovate and solve pressing global challenges.”—Al Gore

“I had a great time at Summit. The people and conversation that took place there were inspiring.”—Kendrick Lamar

“Summit changed my life, expanded my thinking, and made me believe in what’s possible. Reading Make No Small Plans will do the same for you. If you’re ready to go after your biggest dreams with all you’ve got, you owe it to yourself to read this book.”—Alex Banayan