Personal finance · Careers
Business Rooster.
The layoff email. The banned account. The market that turns.
This book exists so that morning finds you ready.
A field guide to career and money, built on five rungs. The intern learns. The employee earns. The manager leverages other people’s work. The owner owns. The investor compounds. Find your rung, read the concepts, and do the Calls.
- Pages
- 128
- Chapters
- 26
- Calls
- 26
- Glossary
- 89 terms
Out 1 September 2026
Five rungs.
Find yours.
Almost nobody explains the ladder in order, so most people climb it by accident. One question runs underneath all five rungs, and it is the only test the book uses: who feeds whom?
Part I- The Egg · The Intern You pay with time to learn. Knowledge is the wage. You are here in your first job, or hunting for it, or starting over at forty in a new field, which makes you an egg again.
Part II- The Chick · The Employee You sell time for money, and the paycheck stops when your time stops. Most of the working world lives here. Nothing is wrong with it, as long as you know you are standing on it.
Part III- The Cockerel · The Manager You sell results, not hours, and you are paid for other people’s output. The costume ranges from shift leader to chief executive. The rung is the same.
Part IV- The Rooster · The Owner You own the system, and the system still needs you. The paperwork of starting is a country-specific afternoon. The courage is the universal part.
Part V- The Old Rooster · The Investor Your money works instead of you. The old rooster is not an age. It is a state, open to anyone whose money has started working shifts.
You do not read this book.
You work it.
Twenty-six chapters, each ending in The Rooster’s Call: one action, doable this week, usually today. Five scorecards that tell you where you actually stand. And a plain-words glossary of eighty-nine money terms, the ones school never taught anybody.
A promise is not money, and the only money you can trust is the money in your bank account.
Wealth was never the income. Wealth is the gap.
One word changes: build ON platforms, never INTO them.
Busy is not a rank, it is a confession.
Every rung,
in order.
Radovan Vitosevic has climbed every rung in this book, in order, with no steps skipped. Bank teller at twenty-one, then credit analyst and wholesale banker. Thirteen years of executive work across more than fifty countries, from back-office manager to managing director, chief operating officer, and chief executive. Along the way he founded a dozen companies of his own. Today he runs his businesses, invests, and writes.
He holds a Doctor of Business Administration and an Executive MBA, both finished on scholarship, and is a Chartered Manager of the Chartered Management Institute. He is the co-author of Awakening Consciousness, a bestseller published in four languages, and the founder of Billingz.
He wrote the book he needed at every step, and he still crows every morning.
- Published
- 1 September 2026
- Language
- English
- ISBN, print
- 978-619-7869-10-1
- ISBN, ebook
- 978-619-7869-11-8
Business Rooster is educational and reflects the author’s personal experience and opinions. Nothing in it, or on this page, is financial, legal, tax, or investment advice, and reading it creates no advisory relationship of any kind. For decisions about your own money, business, or taxes, consult a licensed professional in your jurisdiction.