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.
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?
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