In this totally revised and updated edition of the underground classic, "The E-Myth", Michael Gerber explores the myths surrounding starting your own business and shows how common assumptions, expectations and even technical expertise can get in the way of running a business.

About the Author

Michael Gerber is the founder and chairman of The E-Myth Academy, based in Santa Rosa, California. He is the bestselling author of THE POWER POINT, THE E-MYTH, THE E-MYTH REVISITED and THE E-MYTH MANAGER as well as a highly sought-after speaker around the world and small-business revolutionary.

Reviews

Indicating that 40 percent of small businesses fail within their first year, Gerber, a small business expert, talks about how to be successful. In this revision of his 1986 book, he describes the "E-Myth," which basically states that a person with technical but few management skills can do well in business. Gerber describes developing a precise business system that produces consistent results because it has been tested and refined. He says that businesses thrive because of innovation, quantification, and orchestration. Visualize what is true success to you as a person, Gerber advises, and work from the ideal to the specific. While the author is a consumate salesman who reads his material in soothing tones, he offers too many abstract ideas and too few concrete plans. There is little useful content here. Not recommended.-Mark Guyer, Stark Cty. Dist. Lib., Canton, Ohio