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The E-Myth Contractor: Why Most Contractors' Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It

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The E-Myth Contractor: Why Most Contractors' Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It
Michael E. Gerber
Manufacturer: Collins
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0060938463
Release Date: 2003-06-17

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Despite the single letter at the heart of its hyphenated title, The E-Myth Contractor isn't another book about e-commerce. Instead, like previous entries in Michael E. Gerber's popular series, it focuses on a different e-word--entrepreneur--and the fact that most of us who go into business for ourselves are doomed to fail because we really don't understand business. This time, Gerber lays out the basics for starry-eyed newly self-employed contractors who know everything about their trade but precious little about being a boss. "I don't try to tell you how to do the work you do," he writes at the outset. "Rather, I share with you some profound insights into how great businesspeople think." In his easy-to-understand manner, Gerber explains the concept of Strategic Thinking and how it "will enable you to create a business that works apart from you instead of because of you." He addresses key topics like money, people, management and growth with an eye toward making related functions run seamlessly and effectively as we build our independent enterprises into true companies that have inherent value whether we stay involved or ultimately hand them off to eager buyers. Taken to heart, it could save more than a few worthy ventures as well as the people behind them. --Howard Rothman

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With The E-Myth Contractor, Michael E. Gerber launches a series of books that apply the E-Myth to specific types of small businesses. The first is aimed at contractors.

This book reveals a radical new mind-set that will free contractors from the tyranny of an unprofitable, unproductive routine. With specific tips on topics as crucial as planning, money and personnel management, The E-Myth Contractor teaches readers how to:

*Implement the ingenious turnkey system of management - a means of creating a business prototype that reflects the business owner's unique set of talents and replicating and distributing them among employees and customers.
*Recognise and manage the four forms of money - income, profit, flow and equity.
*Harness the power of change to expand the company.

The book also provides help on a larger level, leading readers towards becoming business visionaries by relinquishing tactical work and embracing strategic work, by letting go to gain control. Once put into action, Gerber's revolutionary ideas promise not only to help contractors build successful businesses, but successful lives as well.

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Awesome.......2007-03-14

Absolutley essential book. He shares some great business ideas that you might have otherwise overlooked.

Not worth the time or money.......2007-02-04

This book repeats a few of the strategies presented in "The E-Myth Revisted", trying to point them at the contractor. Unfortunately, except for a couple of good ideas from that book, there is nothing here but fluff and pep talk. At one point, I think you can actually tell where material was cut-and-pasted from the sister book about medical practices, where they accidentally forgot to change "practice" to "contracting business".

If you found some chapters of the "The E-Myth Revisted" to be a bit fluffy for you, you can count on an entire (although short) book of it here. Very dissapointing and not particularly useful.

Construction.......2007-01-25

Great stuff and a must have - appears to be simplistic but after you really study Gerber's well articulated strategy carefully - it will then reveal its true value.

Good but not necessarily great.......2005-09-21

I enjoyed the original E-Myth very much, though it was painful too as I recognised all my own mistakes in business over the years. I found this particular volume just a tad too new-age in places for my own liking. It is also, like so many small (the book, that is) business-help books, a little on the glib side, making the issues out to be rather easy to solve whereas entrepreneurship is somewhat more challenging in reality, and not quite as formulaic as the author might have us believe. But there's still a lot of truth in it too, and it is easily read, with some good lessons to take from it. Certainly worth both the purchase price and the time it takes to read.

the E-Myth Contractor.......2005-09-01

Good book with good "back to the basic" information which we all need to be reminded of from time to time.

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The E-Myth Contractor: Why Most Contractors' Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It
Michael E. Gerber
Manufacturer: Collins
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OF6TOM

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The E-Myth Contractor (Why Most Contractors' Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It)
Michael E. Gerber
Manufacturer: Collins
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OEV1D2

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