Entrepreneurial Advice | Michael E. Gerber Companies

6 Fundamental Truths About Your Business

17

Jan

There is a fundamental belief that there is no absolute truth about business. But there is. The first absolute truth about business is that they are all broken. They don’t work perfectly. Nor do you. That is absolutely true, but only the first of the absolutes. The second absolute truth is that all broken businesses can be improved. Not absolutely, no. But improved to perform better...

Date: 17 Jan 2012 | Entrepreneurial Advice | Tags: awakening the entrepreneur within,business owner,E-Myth,Entrepreneur,entrepreneurial advice,inventing an experience,Michael E. Gerber,Origination,the dreaming room | Posted by: mgerber | 1 Comment |

A Visit To The Dreaming Room

13

Jan

People have asked me over the years how to know when a business is worth pursuing. How to know whether or not you are wasting your time. I don’t know why this is such a difficult question for people to answer. It is obvious to me that if you are passionate about your company, deeply passionate about it, like a love affair, then it’s worth pursuing whether you’ve got it down or not. My...

Date: 13 Jan 2012 | The Dreaming Room™ | Tags: emyth,emyth revisited,emyth worldwide,entrepreneurial advice,help starting a business,how to create a business,how to start a business,Michael E. Gerber,Origination,the dreaming room | Posted by: mgerber | 0 Comment |

There Are So Many Ways to Avoid the Obvious | Working ON the Business

06

Jan

And what about you? How many ways do YOU find to avoid the obvious? The obvious being that your business is your product, your only product, the product every single entrepreneur has invented to distinguish himself or herself in the world. Like Starbucks is. Or McDonald’s. Or Apple. Or Walmart. I’ve got Howard Schultz’ book, ONWARD, on my desk, and have been dipping into it on and off. ...

Date: 06 Jan 2012 | Working On It™ | Tags: avoiding the obvious,dreaming room facilitators,emyth,emyth revisited,entrepreneurial advice,how to grow your business,how to make your business more profitable,Michael E. Gerber,Origination,the dreaming room,working on the business | Posted by: mgerber | 2 Comments |

The Year is New Once Again | New Year’s Resolutions

03

Jan

Yes, the year is new once again, and our hearts must follow this tradition if we are ever to understand what it means to create anew, and why creating is so important to each and every one of us. I have written so many of these messages for so many years at this time, that when it was suggested that I give it a go again, I poised before saying yes, as all I could hear was my same old voice, saying...

Date: 03 Jan 2012 | Working On It™ | Tags: business new year's resolution,emyth,emyth revisited,entrepreneurial advice,entrepreneurs,ideas for new year's resolutions,Michael E. Gerber,New Year's Resolution,Origination,the dreaming room,wall street journal | Posted by: mgerber | 2 Comments |

A Serious Man – Keeping Promises

30

Dec

I’m fortunate in that I have an extraordinary assistant who reminds me every chance she can get that it’s time for me to write. If she didn’t remind me, I would forget. There is usually so much going on in my mind and therefore in my life – just like you I imagine – that keeping on point is rarely the foremost thing in my mind. My wife, Luz Delia, often comes to me to ask if I have...

Date: 30 Dec 2011 | About Michael,The Dreaming Room™ | Tags: a serious man,awakening the entrepreneur within,business owner,E-Myth,Entrepreneur,entrepreneurial advice,I am that,inventing an experience,Michael E. Gerber,Origination,the dreaming room,tips for keeping promises | Posted by: mgerber | 0 Comment |

On The Personal Side™ | And why does anything matter…

27

Nov

Wanted to get a running start on the day, knowing I would have to find the time and the energy to move my fingers, as I am doing right now, to talk to you, about a subject which comes calling to me, more and more often, the older I get, which is, why does anything matter, yes, why, when time seems to be always running out, when words seem to always be escaping me, when the energy I have always, since...

Date: 27 Nov 2011 | About Michael | Tags: entrepreneurial advice,entrepreneurs,getting older,Michael E. Gerber,on the personal side,Origination,the dreaming room,the most important things in life,why does anything matter | Posted by: mgerber | 1 Comment |

On The Personal Side™

26

Nov

Well yes, and then some more… Well, yes, these little dribblings of mine, these Particles, these tacos, these sometimes smoldering, oftentimes ruminating little snippets of personal dross, are, indeed personal! Which is to say, do come from that malingering soft side of the persona, whose life is made up, as is yours, of floss and dross, and random drum beats, that riddle the mind with their...

Date: 26 Nov 2011 | About Michael | Tags: business networking,emyth,Entrepreneur,entrepreneurial advice,Michael E. Gerber,on the personal side,Origination,prodigy business books,the dreaming room,the e-myth | Posted by: mgerber | 1 Comment |

There Isn’t Enough Time to Wait

23

Nov

No, there isn’t. Yet, why is it that despite the obvious most of us would choose to wait before we take action? Before we move in a new direction? Before we deepen our understanding of what it means to be who we are? No, there isn’t enough time to wait. There is only the obvious. That waiting is not the absence of choice, but the choice preferred by most of us, as we live on the edge...

Date: 23 Nov 2011 | Entrepreneurial Advice | Tags: awakening the entrepreneur within,business advice,business owner,E-Myth,Entrepreneur,entrepreneurial advice,inventing an experience,Michael E. Gerber,Origination,the dreaming room,the essence of entrepreneurship,why wait | Posted by: mgerber | 0 Comment |