EARS OPEN, MOUTH SHUT contains simple, yet critical advice for new entrepreneurs and those making a fresh start in their entrepreneurial life. Whether you are already on your way and ready to make the leap into your own business, are considering a shift from worker to owner, or need a look at why the business accounts are dry and you're on the way to crashing into a fireball, EARS OPEN, MOUTH SHUT will give you a head start by saving you from many of the mistakes people make when starting their own business. Mike Ognek is a former Marine Officer, successful entrepreneur, and author of Maneuver Management: Planning and Communication for Business Success. Looking back on his early entrepreneurial career, he saw the mistakes he made and realized how obvious they were after the fact. Like so many budding entrepreneurs, he read a lot of business books and learned a lot of higher level concepts that helped him in certain areas. The mistakes he made were not high level mistakes, however, so those books didn't help much. As he began working with other businesses to improve their operations with the tools and methodologies of Maneuver Management, he saw entrepreneurs making the very same mistakes he made. From that, he studied the most common, basic, and detrimental mistakes and compiled them in EARS OPEN, MOUTH SHUT so others could avoid the pains associated with making them.