The E-Myth: How Ordinary Becomes Extraordinary
Twitter Summary: A 19-yr old kid from Hawaii learned to speak Spanish thanks to a system that changes something ordinary into something extraordinary.
Principle
In the previous post I wrote about Michael Gerber’s crazy idea that the success of small businesses is founded on creating systems that produce consistent results. Today I want to write about how a system can take ordinary people and help them do extraordinary things.
Gerber writes in his book The E-Myth that a business which is dependent on highly talented people can feel shackled to those talented individuals. What is worse, the high quality results of these highly talented individuals are hard to replicate consistently. In the end, the success of a small business is NOT dependent upon the people it hires, but the consist...
