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The E-Myth
Revisited: Why Most
Small Businesses
Don’t Work and
What to Do about It
Jonas Flesch
me@jonasflesch.com
Source: http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2012/01/small-business-successfailure-rates/
Source: http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2012/01/small-business-successfailure-rates/
How do you imagine an
entrepreneur?
The reality
 Most entrepreneurs are not like that
Who are the “entrepreneurs”?
 The barber opens up a barber shop.
 The hairdresser starts a beauty shop.
 The computer programmer opens a
software company.
The Fatal Assumption is: if you understand
the technical work of a business you
understand a business that does that
technical work.
You can be more than one
person
 The entrepreneur.
 The manager.
 The technician.
The entrepreneur
 Who decided to open a business
 Is the dreamer
 Turns the most trivial condition into an
exceptional opportunity
 Lives in the future
 Most people are problems that get in the
way of the dream
The manager
 Who organizes everything
 Lives in the past
 Where the entrepreneur sees the a
opportunity, the manager sees a problem
 Runs after the entrepreneur and cleans
the mess
The technician
 “If you want it done right, do it yourself”
 Lives in the present
 Tries to do as much work as possible
 Is a individualist
 “Two things can’t be done simultaneously,
only a fool would try”
The reality
 The typical small business owner is
 10% entrepreneur
 20% manager
 70% technician
The race for power
 The entrepreneur wakes up with a vision
 The manager screams “Oh, no!”
 But they have no power, they together are only 30%
 So, who is in charge?
The technician is in charge!
Businesses phases
Infancy Adolescence Maturity
The infancy
 The technician phase
 You are the business!
 You start to have more work that you can
do
 You fill your day with “work”
 Avoids the challenge of learning how to
grow a business
The adolescence
 You decide to hire someone
 Someone with experience
 Someone that will let you do want you
want to do – technical work
 Usually someone to take care of the books
 To do what you don’t want to do
 You will tell him your secret: that you don’t
know what you’re doing!
The adolescence
 You use another management style:
Management by Abdication
 Sooner or later things will start to go wrong
 You will ask “how did that happen?”
 You have three choices:
 Getting smaller again
 Going for broke
 Adolescent Survival
The maturity
 Understand that you work is creating the
support that your business need to grow
 Have an clear idea of where you want
your company to be
 Work every day to close the gap
between what the company is and what
you think it should be
The “turn-key revolution”
 The franchise phenomenon
 "The Most successful Small Business in the
World" - McDonald's
 The franchise prototype
 Even if you will not franchise your business
 Defined processes
The model
 The model will provide consistent value to
your customers, employees, suppliers, and
lenders, beyond what they expect
 The model will be operated by people
with the lowest possible level of skill
 The model will stand out as a place of
impeccable order.
Create a model of your
business
 All work in the model will be documented
in Operations Manuals
 The model will provide a uniformly
predictable service to the customer
 The model will utilize a uniform color, dress
and facilities code.
Orchestration
 If everyone in your company is doing it by
their own discretion, their own choice,
rather than creating order, you're
creating chaos.
 People should follow processes
 If you haven't orchestrated it, you don't
own it!
Quantification
 How many people entered in your store?
 What they bought?
 How many in the morning
 In the afternoon?
 How many people call your business each
day?
 How many call to ask for a price?
Process
Quantify
Analyze
Identify
Improvements
Adapt your
model
Do your business plan
 You already know that
 Mike and Bob were right: business plans
are important
THANK YOU!
Presentation analysis
 Please tell me what I need to improve!
 People liked my PowerPoint theme last
time, so I repeated it
 Point A: Who is the entrepreneur?/Data
about small businesses
 Point B: How to organize a small business
in a way it works
Presentation analysis
 WIIFY: Some day the entrepreneur inside
you will try to open a business! Also some
tips here apply to businesses of all sizes,
and even to technicians turned into
managers inside a big company
 Flow: Tried to go into the phases of a new
business – pretty hard in 15 minutes
Jonas Flesch
me@jonasflesch.com

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The E-Myth Revisited

  • 1. The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do about It Jonas Flesch me@jonasflesch.com
  • 4. How do you imagine an entrepreneur?
  • 5. The reality  Most entrepreneurs are not like that
  • 6. Who are the “entrepreneurs”?  The barber opens up a barber shop.  The hairdresser starts a beauty shop.  The computer programmer opens a software company. The Fatal Assumption is: if you understand the technical work of a business you understand a business that does that technical work.
  • 7. You can be more than one person  The entrepreneur.  The manager.  The technician.
  • 8. The entrepreneur  Who decided to open a business  Is the dreamer  Turns the most trivial condition into an exceptional opportunity  Lives in the future  Most people are problems that get in the way of the dream
  • 9. The manager  Who organizes everything  Lives in the past  Where the entrepreneur sees the a opportunity, the manager sees a problem  Runs after the entrepreneur and cleans the mess
  • 10. The technician  “If you want it done right, do it yourself”  Lives in the present  Tries to do as much work as possible  Is a individualist  “Two things can’t be done simultaneously, only a fool would try”
  • 11. The reality  The typical small business owner is  10% entrepreneur  20% manager  70% technician
  • 12. The race for power  The entrepreneur wakes up with a vision  The manager screams “Oh, no!”  But they have no power, they together are only 30%  So, who is in charge? The technician is in charge!
  • 14. The infancy  The technician phase  You are the business!  You start to have more work that you can do  You fill your day with “work”  Avoids the challenge of learning how to grow a business
  • 15. The adolescence  You decide to hire someone  Someone with experience  Someone that will let you do want you want to do – technical work  Usually someone to take care of the books  To do what you don’t want to do  You will tell him your secret: that you don’t know what you’re doing!
  • 16. The adolescence  You use another management style: Management by Abdication  Sooner or later things will start to go wrong  You will ask “how did that happen?”  You have three choices:  Getting smaller again  Going for broke  Adolescent Survival
  • 17. The maturity  Understand that you work is creating the support that your business need to grow  Have an clear idea of where you want your company to be  Work every day to close the gap between what the company is and what you think it should be
  • 18. The “turn-key revolution”  The franchise phenomenon  "The Most successful Small Business in the World" - McDonald's  The franchise prototype  Even if you will not franchise your business  Defined processes
  • 19. The model  The model will provide consistent value to your customers, employees, suppliers, and lenders, beyond what they expect  The model will be operated by people with the lowest possible level of skill  The model will stand out as a place of impeccable order.
  • 20. Create a model of your business  All work in the model will be documented in Operations Manuals  The model will provide a uniformly predictable service to the customer  The model will utilize a uniform color, dress and facilities code.
  • 21. Orchestration  If everyone in your company is doing it by their own discretion, their own choice, rather than creating order, you're creating chaos.  People should follow processes  If you haven't orchestrated it, you don't own it!
  • 22. Quantification  How many people entered in your store?  What they bought?  How many in the morning  In the afternoon?  How many people call your business each day?  How many call to ask for a price?
  • 24. Do your business plan  You already know that  Mike and Bob were right: business plans are important
  • 26. Presentation analysis  Please tell me what I need to improve!  People liked my PowerPoint theme last time, so I repeated it  Point A: Who is the entrepreneur?/Data about small businesses  Point B: How to organize a small business in a way it works
  • 27. Presentation analysis  WIIFY: Some day the entrepreneur inside you will try to open a business! Also some tips here apply to businesses of all sizes, and even to technicians turned into managers inside a big company  Flow: Tried to go into the phases of a new business – pretty hard in 15 minutes