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Summary: A little long-winded, but awesome!
Review: The ideas the author conveys in this book are valuable, to say the least. Everyone who is thinking of starting or has started their own business needs to read this book. I just wish he would get to the point a little quicker. I found myself skimming ahead to find where he starts talking about the real issues again, instead of telling us a long, drawn out story. But still a must read. By implementing his ideas in my company, I'm sure I will save myself many headaches down the road, maybe even avoiding failure.
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Summary: Great read
Review: E-Myth is really a great read. Mr. Gerber is able to able to convey complex points in a simple and enjoyable way. I finished the book in two sittings and would reconmend it to anyone interested in starting their own business.
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Summary: Good book for the future franchisee
Review: This is an excellent book if you are a person looking to know more about owning a business and turning it into a franchise. However, some of the things that the book discusses about owning a business i do not believe are neccessarily valid. The book makes it sound like the only way that you can be successful is if you build a business merely to sell it and franchise it out. I am pretty sure that some of the most successful businesses are not franchises in the way that they are explained in this book. Probably the number one example that I can think of is Microsoft. There are others also.
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Summary: Must read for any entrepreneaur.
Review: I bought this book at the urging of a friend of mine. After picking it up I could not put it down. I read the whole thing in one night. If you have been in business for a while and are tired of your business running you and not you running your business this book will give you some fresh ideas of how to turn things around.
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Summary: One of the Best Entrepreneurial Books Ever!!!
Review: This book is a must read for any person considering jumping into the entrepreneurial world and running their own business. It is also a great book for those that want to be the intrapreneur within a larger corporation. Before you even start to think about opening a business, read this first. It will save you from a lot of headaches and confusion. I wish I had read it first. This book is now required reading for a Small Business Management college class I teach.
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Summary: The book flap was enough...
Review: ...to get a feel for the revised edition. The first one was great but very little was added to this one to make it a good buy. But why take stock in my opinion - I'm an idiot anyway.BE
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Summary: brings to life the journey of business development
Review: Michael Gerber's insights about the challenges confronting the small business owner are brought to life by his "running dialogue with a wonderful woman named Sarah(not her real name)." Using examples from Sarah's enterprise - All About Pies - Gerber brings to life the journey of business development. From the opening chapters which explore The Entrepreneurial Myth and the Fatal Assumption to the "nuts and bolts" chapters in Part III, Gerber draws the reader along with great anticipation. Business owners will recognize themselves as they read about the problems caused by the three people in one -- the Technician, the Manager and the Entrepreneur. Not only will there be recognition, there will be laughter. With specific "how to" examples combined with the insights about why things must change, Gerber has created a powerful guide for the development of a business that can really give the owner the life often dreamed about.
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Summary: To Life and Happiness!
Review: A friend who understood how the contents would change my life forever introduced me to The E-Myth Revisited several months ago. Rarely has any business book provided me with such a fresh and clear vision how owner operated businesses can run better, more efficiently, more effectively, and with greater rewards for customers, employees and especially the owner. It's not just that small businesses don't work, it's about the business owner working too much, too hard with little room for a joyful co-existence with the business. E-Myth provides the solutions to a more rewarding experience for life and business. I believed so strongly in it's teachings that after 24 years in Corporate America I'm now a Certified E-Myth Consultant, coaching business owners the E-Myth Mastery Program
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Summary: Gerber Screws Head On Straight for Entrepreneurs
Review: An original exposition of what it takes to make a business a success. Author Michael Gerber aims his classic at the small business owner, and his first point is that the company works for the owner, not the other way around. Mr Gerber's insights flow from there, and cover the disciplines of management, marketing, hiring, and measurement. The E-Myth is required reading for budding entrepreneurs. Read it.
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Summary: The #1 Choice for Business Owners & wannabees
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This single book was one of the major turning points for my own understanding of what it REALLY took to be successful in business - ANY kind of business.
Without an awareness of the significant differences between the 3 different mindsets and roles played out in business - that of Entrepreneur, Manager and Employee (or Technician as Gerber calls them) - Michael believes failure (or at least not reaching your full potential) is just around the corner.
It would seem the statistics back him up in this, because 90% of all businesses started do not survive the first year! Even worse, the ones that do survive only have a 50% or less chance of making it to Year #5.
These aren't figures I've just plucked out of the air. They come from Australian Government statistics (and most industrialised nations of the world have similar figures) collected over MANY years.
Gerber explains what holds business owners back from TRUE SUCCESS (which is not just making lots of money), and in nearly all cases, it's simply the wrong mindset - they CHOOSE not to think like an entrepreneur.
By the way, if you own a business and are considered a "Success" in modern-day terms (that usually means you earn significant income, and have some of the nice toys such as luxury car, boat, nice house, and so on), consider this:
If you CAN'T go away from your business for a week,
month, or even a year, and be confident that things will be under control
and have gotten better since you left, then you are still not
achieving your full potential as a business "success".
If you work 60, 80, or even 100 hours a week in your
business, then you are NOT achieving your full potential as a "successful"
business entrepreneur!
In short, success is relative. For some, earning a 6-figure income per year is all the success they want right now. Others understand that TIME is much more important than money, but can't get control over it.
Achieving your full potential as a business success requires far more than just making lots of income, and Michael Gerber lays it out in black and white better than ANYONE else I've ever encountered.
As the title states, this book is my #1 choice for business owners AND those wanting to become one, plus the more entrepreneurial employees out there wanting to make a significant impact on their area of influence within a business.
Wisdom this cheap is often brushed past, simply due to a lack of awareness of the true value it contains. My recommendation is that this book should actually earn 6 stars, but regrettably, Amazon only lets me go up to 5!
Buy it, borrow it, even steal it - but more importantly, READ IT! You'll be glad you did.
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