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The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It

The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It

by Michael E. Gerber

In E-Myth Revisited, Michael Gerber captures some of the greatest insights that can make a business successful. The advice given in this book encompasses all areas of business, including marketing, people, management, and systems. It is amazing how Gerber has managed to squeeze such mammoth wisdom into this short book. He shows the common mistakes made by new entrepreneurs and why most businesses fail in their initial years.

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To run a business successfully, take care of three aspects: technical, managerial, and entrepreneurial.
To run a business successfully, take care of three aspects: technical, managerial, and entrepreneurial.
Entrepreneurship Skills
Create a business whose results are systems-dependent rather than people-dependent.
Create a business whose results are systems-dependent rather than people-dependent.
Entrepreneurship Skills
Standardize the colors, shapes, and other design components in your business.
Standardize the colors, shapes, and other design components in your business.
Entrepreneurship Skills
Focus on the business development process of innovation, quantification, and orchestration while building your business prototype.
Focus on the business development process of innovation, quantification, and orchestration while building your business prototype.
Entrepreneurship Skills
Have structure in your life, job, or business.
Have structure in your life, job, or business.
Entrepreneurship Skills
Provide a consistent service in your business or job.
Provide a consistent service in your business or job.
Entrepreneurship Skills
Write down a detailed vision for the future.
Write down a detailed vision for the future.
Entrepreneurship Skills
Be willing to face your limitations.
Be willing to face your limitations.
Entrepreneurship Skills
Always deliver what you promise in your work.
Always deliver what you promise in your work.
Entrepreneurship Skills
Your business or job should be based on your primary aim in life.
Your business or job should be based on your primary aim in life.
Entrepreneurship Skills
Work on the business, not in the business.
Work on the business, not in the business.
Entrepreneurship Skills
Create a strategic objective for your business/job by setting specific standards.
Create a strategic objective for your business/job by setting specific standards.
Entrepreneurship Skills
Create an operations manual with detailed instructions of your everyday activities.
Create an operations manual with detailed instructions of your everyday activities.
Entrepreneurship Skills
Create an idea behind your work that fuels emotional commitment.
Create an idea behind your work that fuels emotional commitment.
Motivation
Apply your will to resolve conflicts.
Apply your will to resolve conflicts.
Problem-Solving Skills
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