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286 reviews for:
The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It
Michael E. Gerber
3.78 AVERAGE
286 reviews for:
The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It
Michael E. Gerber
3.78 AVERAGE
A good book for new business owners to come to terms with many mistakes that are made and ideas to make the start up business process easier. Overall it was very helpful read of what to think about and to have expectations for what the future may hold. There are definitely many things I could relate to. While the information is good, it is laid out in a very long-winded way. Sometimes it helps to drive the point home, but sometimes it feels like this book could have been about 200 pages shorter. I would still recommend any current or soon to be business owners to read this book.
I wish I had read this book two years ago, when I was growing my business. If nothing else, I would have felt like less of a failure as I passed through what Gerber describes as the normal "adolescent" stage of entrepreneurship. There is some helpful information here, but I agree with the other reviewers that I ended up skimming large chunks in between the nuggets of wisdom.
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
Fairly easy read that explains how to run and make any business excel using systems and processes.
3.5 Found it helpful in terms of thinking about how to approach small business, but it wasn’t very well written and felt like a sales pitch for his consulting business. It did its job of getting the reader to think about how to approach owning a small business in a sustainable way and had some interesting ideas, although many were things I felt intuitively. But it was still helpful to have them articulated.
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Great ideas, a little patronising at times
I learned a lot from this book and was reminded of a lot that I knew already. The big takeaway for me initially was the separation of the roles within my business even if ai was doing most of them - applying systems even if they all felt as if they were rolled into one. I’m sure there will be more insights and actions as I revisit later.
The reason it doesn’t get five stars is that some of the content is more than slightly patronising. Herbert talks about this pie shop owner and the similes/parallels with other businesses are useful BUT the dialogue is creaky; he’s just trying to make the theory less dry. That’s fine and it works but please don’t try to tell me it’s a verbatim account of an actual conversation!
The odd “come off it” moment aside, this is a book that’s likely to help a lot of people. I recommend it and thank the person who recommended it to me.
I learned a lot from this book and was reminded of a lot that I knew already. The big takeaway for me initially was the separation of the roles within my business even if ai was doing most of them - applying systems even if they all felt as if they were rolled into one. I’m sure there will be more insights and actions as I revisit later.
The reason it doesn’t get five stars is that some of the content is more than slightly patronising. Herbert talks about this pie shop owner and the similes/parallels with other businesses are useful BUT the dialogue is creaky; he’s just trying to make the theory less dry. That’s fine and it works but please don’t try to tell me it’s a verbatim account of an actual conversation!
The odd “come off it” moment aside, this is a book that’s likely to help a lot of people. I recommend it and thank the person who recommended it to me.
Really enjoyed this, more so as it progressed. As is most business/entrepreneurial content, helpfully applicable to being a stay at home mom and managing a household.
challenging
informative
reflective
medium-paced
informative
lighthearted
medium-paced
Introduces two pretty fundamental, but once posited, basic rules on running a small business: 1) You must be an Entrepreneur, working on your business and its development, not in the business; and 2) your business is not you, but the systems you implement within it - the goal is to reach a point that any individual is interchangeable, it is the system that does the work.
These two points are incredibly useful to learn, and he does a good job at providing useful analogy’s to make them stick (e.g imagine you are going to try and franchise your business, how would you run your business such that it’s success can be replicated anywhere by anyone); however the book does feel like it can be pretty easily reduced to these two core lessons, and as such 288 pages begins to feel quite repetitive.
These two points are incredibly useful to learn, and he does a good job at providing useful analogy’s to make them stick (e.g imagine you are going to try and franchise your business, how would you run your business such that it’s success can be replicated anywhere by anyone); however the book does feel like it can be pretty easily reduced to these two core lessons, and as such 288 pages begins to feel quite repetitive.