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. ( )

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 ( )

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. ( )