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Title | : | The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It |
Author | : | Michael E. Gerber |
Book Format | : | Paperback |
Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
Pages | : | Pages: 269 pages |
Published | : | January 1st 1995 by Harper Business (first published September 1st 1985) |
Categories | : | Business. Nonfiction. Entrepreneurship. Self Help. Buisness. Leadership. Management |
Michael E. Gerber
Paperback | Pages: 269 pages Rating: 4.01 | 57801 Users | 1845 Reviews
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E-Myth \ 'e-,'mith\ n 1: the entrepreneurial myth: the myth that most people who start small businesses are entrepreneurs 2: the fatal assumption that an individual who understands the technical work of a business can successfully run a business that does that technical work Voted #1 business book by Inc. 500 CEOs. An instant classic, this revised and updated edition of the phenomenal bestseller dispels the myths about starting your own business. Small business consultant and author Michael E. Gerber, with sharp insight gained from years of experience, points out how common assumptions, expectations, and even technical expertise can get in the way of running a successful business. Gerber walks you through the steps in the life of a business—from entrepreneurial infancy through adolescent growing pains to the mature entrepreneurial perspective: the guiding light of all businesses that succeed—and shows how to apply the lessons of franchising to any business, whether or not it is a franchise. Most importantly, Gerber draws the vital, often overlooked distinction between working on your business and working in your business. The E-Myth Revisited will help you grow your business in a productive, assured way.Specify Books As The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It
Original Title: | The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It |
ISBN: | 0887307280 (ISBN13: 9780887307287) |
Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 4.01 From 57801 Users | 1845 ReviewsArticle Out Of Books The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It
If it weren't for the condescending, overly-simplistic, overly-drawn out, incessantly repetitive tone of this book, it would be good--it does have meaningful concepts, it just should have been twenty pages long. I've spent years working in consulting where process works when people don't. This book took sixty pages to suggest that the poor overworked technician hire help. Another fifty pages to explain that you need good processes so that you can hire low-skilled people. That you define a roleI read this a few years ago. It was the text for one of my husband's business classes. He said it was a good book... and I said, "WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY?" (qualifies as one of the most rare phrases to escape his gorgeous lips) So I had to read it, see.It's actually pretty amazing. I'm betting I'll never start my own business, because the things I do tend to be less-marketable services and commodities. Reading, doing laundry, watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer... Don't think you get paid for any of
Outstanding. Second time I've read it, better this time around. If you are starting a new business or organization, this is a must-read.Some takeaways:The Entrepreneur, the Technician, the Manager.The true product of a business isn't what it sells but how it sells it.The Entrepreneur asks, "Where is the opportunity?"Tom Watson, IBM: "Every day is devoted to business development, not doing business."Mr. Watson had a clear picture of what IBM would look like in the future and began to act like it
This book tells how to get your business to run without you. It shows how to work on your business, not in it. It explains how to get your people to work without your interference. It tells how to systematize so the business could be replicated 5,000 times. It shows how to do the work you love rather than the work you have to do.The E-Myth (Entrepreneurial Myth) is that businesses are started by entrepreneurs seeking profit. In actuality, businesses are started by technicians (employees) who
Self-employment does not make you an entrepreneur.In this classic, Gerber highlights the three functions in a business: the Entrepreneur, the Manager, and the Technician. Self-employed people stay on the Technician-level and thus limit themselves.He then moves onto the three stages of business growth, Infancy, Adolescence, and Maturity and shows how the role of the functions change as you grow.Finally he outlines a Business Development Program, a practical Turn-Key system for putting his ideas
This book is appears in all must-read-business-books-lists.Well, not on mine.While I agree that standardization of processes can go long way, the McDonald's of the world already exist. Trying to create another one, is as likely as to aiming to be the next Facebook.The way I work in the corporate world, and the way I see myself working in an enterprise of my own, isn't factory work, follow the manual and nothing but the manual, don't think just execute bogus.We're human working for humans,
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