The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don'T Work And What To Do About It By Michael E. Gerber(1995-03-03) Paperback

If there is someone out there who's looking to understand how small business works, or just business in general, then I recommend this book. You'll find everything you need in there.

This book was recommended by a small business advisor, and it has been very helpful in making decisions. It also gives good warnings about why most new businesses fail, and how to avoid them. Discusses working ON your business instead of in it, and working on yourself too. Highly recommended for those thinking about starting a new business!

Love the book !

I bought this book for school and was dreading to read it, cause I hate to read in general. Surprisingly, I thought it was decent and learned a lot about businesses. It makes you think and it's perfect for people that want to be entrepreneurs one day!

This book does a great job of forcing the business owner to think about working on the business versus working in the business. The idea of building your business like a franchise that you could duplicate over and over makes a lot of sense. Imagination, quantification, and orchestration are ways to think about the business, analyze the numbers, and build the model. Quick read and very thought provoking.

This book and it's principles will profoundly impact your journey as an entrepreneur.My business, an organic food technology start up company, has a lot of moving parts and it's complexon many levels. I decided early on to incorporate these principles. Im glad that I did. Especially, the partwhere he talks about the hotel and how every single task and how to do it is defined and measured. This is tedious,but you cannot scale, and you cannot adequately measure a person's performance unless every single aspect ofexactly what they do is defined step by step.I once heard a growing company does not provide jobs, it provides opportunity. Unfortunately, many people are looking for a job,when you take away the mystery of how long it takes to get something done, and the technique necessary to do it right... there isnothing for a a lazy, unmotivated employee to hide behind.Get the book if you haven't. It isn't a best seller because of hype.Dave

It becomes very easy to get on the treadmill run yourself ragged to keep the business alive. The E-Myth Revisited describes how successful businesses operate and how that construct can be applied to a small business. This is a VERY useful resource.

This book made me realize I am absolutely not cut out to run a business. I am so glad I read it. It really explained a lot.