Michael Gerber’s EMyth is very clear; systems are needed for a successful business and the CEO must go through the steps of being the technician, the manager and the entrepreneur. Even though he reaches that pinnacle of CEO he still needs to think like the technician and the manager. He needs to be cognizant of how each of the levels interacts with each other in the business and never lose track of how he started the business. The technician provides the output, the manager runs the systems and the Entrepreneur provides the vision. Read the rest of this entry

1. The Opportunity to be your own boss ( http://beyourownboss.org)
2. To get out of your dead-end job
3. To be able to work 24/7 on something you love
4. To get away from that boss that sucks the joy out of your life
5. To control your own destiny, wow, isn’t that a big one?
6. To work with people you like Read the rest of this entry

by Dave Macdonald on February 1, 2011

January 28th was an exciting day for me. Michael E. Gerber, probably most famous for his 1985 book, The E-Myth came to Vancouver and was hosted by Gary Bizzo, a local Business Coach and Mentor, and Vera Unwin.

Gerber’s E-Myth is a book that inspired Yupana. It is full of stories and insights that help someone like me guide my business clients in a variety of areas. Gerber’s general approach in the book is to help business owners work on the business as opposed to at, in or for the business. This is an important notion – no one I know has started a business to become an employee, they started in order to be their own boss. Read the rest of this entry

(reprinted from Michael E. Gerber’s Blog)

Vera Unwin, Michael Gerber & Gary C. Bizzo

The Dreaming Room is designed to awaken the entrepreneur within you.  Not to make you more effective at working IN your business, but to make you more effective at working ON your business.
The entrepreneur is the one who creates the opportunities that are waiting for you in the world around you.
To fill them with your vitality.  With your spirit. With your passion.  With your imagination. With your Soul.
But in order to create opportunities, the entrepreneur within you must first recognize what an opportunity is, and what purpose it serves.
That’s what happens in The Dreaming Room.
What happens in the Dreaming Room is that each and every participant is taken on a unique, one-of-a-kind journey.  Unique, because it is their journey and their journey only.
The journey one goes on in the Dreaming Room is therefore completely unpredictable because no two participants are the same.  No two journeys are the same. Read the rest of this entry