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- Author: Michael E. Gerber
- Full Title: The E-Myth Revisited
- Category: #books
- Anthony Greenbank, who said in The Book of Survival, “To live through an impossible situation, you don’t need the reflexes of a Grand Prix driver, the muscles of a Hercules, the mind of an Einstein. You simply need to know what to do.”
- You can’t ignore your future employees’ need for leadership, for purpose, for responsible management, for effective communication, for something more than just a job in which their sole purpose is to support you doing your job.
- You come face to face with the unavoidable truth: You don’t own a business—you own a job! What’s more, it’s the worst job in the world! You can’t close it when you want to, because if it’s closed you don’t get paid. You can’t leave it when you want to, because when you leave there’s nobody there to do the work. You can’t sell it when you want to, because who wants to buy a job?
- “And then, one day—it was a Wednesday, June 10th, I believe, at seven in the morning—she called me and told me she wouldn’t be coming in any longer. That she had taken another job. That she couldn’t afford to work for what I was paying her.
- Note: Wendell Berry’s hired man
- Most of us have had the experience of being disappointed by someone in whom we have put our trust as a direct result of our indifference or lack of understanding or lack of skill or lack of attention.