“No, the Technician isn’t the only problem … The problem is that everybody who goes into business is actually three-people-in-one: The Entrepreneur, The Manager, and The Technician. And the problem is compounded by the fact that while each of these personalities wants to be the boss, none of them wants to have a boss. So [Continue Reading]
Your Business Is the Product: How to Create a Unique Business That Works
“The Entrepreneurial Model has less to do with what’s done in a business and more to do with how it’s done. The commodity isn’t what’s important — the way it’s delivered is.” Michael Gerber, The E-Myth Revisited The best businesses do not make their business only about the commodity they sell. A commodity is a house, [Continue Reading]
The Entrepreneur’s Success Mantra: Work on Your Business, Not In it
“Once you recognize that the purpose of your life is not to serve your business, but that the primary purpose of your business is to serve your life, you can then go to work on your business, rather than in it, with a full understanding of why it is absolutely necessary for you to do [Continue Reading]
How to Build Systems That Make More Profits and Free Up Your Time
My style of business deliberately keeps things small, on the micro-level. I work out of my house, and I run my business with a laptop and mobile phone (more on my philosophy: Why I Keep My Business Small and Simple). But we micro-businesses face a weakness that bigger businesses usually do much better. We (the [Continue Reading]
Why Most Small Businesses Fail
(Hint … It’s a Myth)
“Of the thousands of business people I have had the opportunity to know and work with over the past two decades, few were real entrepreneurs … If the entrepreneur survived at all, it was only as a myth that grew out of a misunderstanding about who goes into business and why … That myth, that [Continue Reading]