From the library
The E-Myth Revisited
Michael Gerber, 1995
In one paragraph
Gerber’s classic shows founders how to build businesses that run on systems, not heroics—document processes, design a franchise prototype, and work on the business rather than in it.
Also tagged
Where this sits in the operating system
Systems Over Goals
Systems Over Goals
People & Relationships
Key insights
Most small businesses are started by technicians who are good at the work and then trapped by it.
Work on the business, not in it. Build the franchise prototype whether or not you ever franchise anything.
Technician, manager and entrepreneur are three roles one person cannot hold simultaneously, which is the actual diagnosis.
Recognise it early
The failure and the correction sit side by side deliberately. Read the left column asking whether any of it is already true of you.
Working only in the business instead of on it
Being a technician with entrepreneurial seizure
Creating business dependency on personal involvement
Inconsistent delivery due to lack of systems
Lack of clear direction and motivation
The same idea, argued differently
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The full breakdown
Before you close this
Naming the specific moment you will act roughly doubles the odds you do.
Reference
- Author
- Michael Gerber
- Published
- 1995
- Category
- Business
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