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Summary: The system is the solution!
Review: Gerber's book starts with an elegant point- a truism known to anyone who has experienced an "entrepreneurial seizure" and set about to open their own business based on their frustrations of working for others. Gerber's central concept is that you should set up foolproof systems so your business works on auto-pilot, with or without you present in the office. He opines that the purpose of any small business is to sell it, so he explains how to set up organizational flow charts and focus on the systems of your business that can deliver your product or service to the marketplace differently from the competition. Highly recommended, an easy read,it focusses on how to have a life and be super successful at the same time. Buy this book!
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Summary: This book is the beginning of a small business revolution
Review: Why should I go and get an MBA before I start my business when I can get guidance like this? This book isn't just about how to run a business, but about a whole new point of view. If you get "it" after reading this book, your professional life will never be the same. Most small businesses fail, but businesses that practice this "point-of-view" will increase their chances of success exponentially. Most small business owners give up just when they are given the opportunity to prove they really are entrepreneurs. If you're a small business owner, NOT reading this book could be the biggest mistake you'll ever make. The smartest thing you could ever do after reading this book is to adopt the point of view, and seek to "get it" to a level where it makes a difference in your business.
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Summary: This is the top book for owning your own business
Review: The author's choice to take us through examples of businesses that work and do not work is pure genius. I have been working with and have watched businesses fail due to the warnings E-Myth covers. This book ranks with Drucker's management books. I have been thanked over and over for gving this book as a gift. I wish this book would have been part of my business studies in college.
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Summary: More "touchy-feely" than your usual business book
Review: I was given this book by by employer, upon notice of my resignation to start my own company. He felt that after I read it I would no longer want to be an entrepenuer. WRONG! This book is not so much a "how to" be a manager (though it does give some very specific guidelines) as it is a psychological look at entrepenuers - what works, what doesn't, how to get yourself in the correct frame of mind to proceed. How you - the entrepenuer - need to need to look at the business in order to be successful - so that you can run the company, instead of it running you. I gained a lot of insight from this book. I did feel it was very wordy, and really warm-fuzzy (Sarah wants her pies to show she cares - Sarah wants her spirit to be free - the author cares about Sarah AND her spirit, yada yada yada). Other than a few strange digressions, I found it very enjoyable and I believe it will be helpful.
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Summary: Small business owner or senior manager? Get this book.
Review: A bit spacey but extremely insightful. A quick read and well worth it for the insight it gives into why your business bites you on the arse. One of the most valuable management books I have ever read.
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Summary: EVERY business owner MUST read this
Review: This is a superb book! I recommend it to everyone. It is so easy to read & so glaringly logical & it's simple to implement. The techniques once implemented will ensure that entrepreneurs will be wealthier than they have ever dreamed !
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Summary: Absolute Brilliance
Review: If you're looking for a book to help with a new or running business, this is the one. The E-Myth Revisited is my business bible.
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Summary: Unhappy with the similarity of this book to "The E-Myth"
Review: I loved "The E-Myth" and I have applied its wisdom to my start-up, but I feel I was somewhat hoodwinked when I bought "The E-Myth Revisited" through Amazon.com because it's very similar to The E-Myth. One of the disadvantages of shopping online?
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Summary: This book was my "grad school"
Review: This book made more sense than any other business book I have read. The author has written this book with such powerful insight into todays entrepreneur. He gives you a step by step plan to make your business work for you.
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Summary: Why Many Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It
Review: Despite the pessimistic subtitle, the author of this little book is a champion for the small business owner. As a lawyer representing mainly small businesses, I have seen many businesses that deserved to prosper, run out of capital and luck. This book helps explain why, and offers a constructive mechanism to maximize a business's chances for success. The "e"(for entrepreneur) myth is that hard work and perseverance -- plowing ahead against the odds -- will alter the statistical odds that doom most new businesses. Gerber uses as an example, a woman who had begun a small bakery business because of her legendary piemaking skills. Since she knew how to bake great pies, shouldn't it follow that that skill could be the basis for a successful business? Back in the real world, while the business hadn't exactly failed, it hadn't exactly succeeded, either. Gerber shows how the overwrought business owner can turn the idea into a successful venture. The author advocates looking for guidance to the large franchise model (McDonald's is an example he cites frequently). The distinctive characteristic of the large franchise-based business is a detailed, finely tuned system that can be run successfully by non-experts. Gerber takes the reader through the steps to create a detailed small business model. Using this system, the business owner is transformed from a day to day operator to a sort of teacher whose success is achieved by training others in detail to use the very skills the owner brought to the business in the first place. Few readers will have the time and discipline to adopt the entire soup-to-nuts program advocated in this book, but can still learn a great deal from it.
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