The key to becoming an entrepreneur is to be willing to start your business all over again.
They intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are. Aldous Huxley.
To The Manager, then, The Technician becomes a problem to be managed. To The Technician, The Manager becomes a meddler to be avoided. To both of them, The Entrepreneur is the one who got them into trouble in the first place!
The system isn’t something you bring to the business. It’s something you derive from the process of building the business.
There was absolutely no consistency to the experience.
Quality is just a word, and an empty word at that, if it doesn’t include harmony, balance, passion, intention, attention. “Continuous improvement for its own sake is a waste of time. “Life is what a business is about, and life is what this work is about. Coming to grips with oneself, in the face of an incredibly complex world that can teach us if we’re open to learn.
Thus, the Entrepreneurial Model does not start with a picture of the business to be created but of the customer for whom the business is to be created.
Ouspensky was saying that hell on earth is life as we have always lived it, and heaven on earth is breaking free of our long-standing patterns.
And what makes people work is an idea worth working for, along with a clear understanding of what needs to be done.
It’s up to you to dictate your business’s rate of growth as best you can by understanding the key processes that need to be performed, the key objectives that need to be achieved, the key position you are aiming your business to hold in the marketplace.
The Franchise Prototype is also the place where all assumptions are put to the test to see how well they work before becoming operational in the business.
1. Your Primary Aim 2. Your Strategic Objective 3. Your Organizational Strategy 4. Your Management Strategy 5. Your People Strategy 6. Your Marketing Strategy 7. Your Systems Strategy.
It’s time for me to challenge my imagination and to begin the process of shaping an entirely new life. And the best way to do that anywhere in this whole wide opportunity-filled world is to create an exciting new business.
A business that looks orderly says to your customer that your people know what they’re doing.
Because, the moment you chose to start a small business, Sarah, you unwittingly chose to play a significantly larger game than any game you had ever played before.
Thus, the Entrepreneurial Model does not start with a picture of the business to be created but of the customer for whom the business is to be created. It understands that without a clear picture of that customer, no business can succeed.
What is standing in the way of my customer getting what he wants from my business?
Accountability literally means “stand up and be counted.
Documentation is an affirmation of order.
And as the world becomes more and more complex, and the commodities more varied, the feelings we want become more urgent, less rational, more unconscious.