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

I just attended the last Dreaming Room lead by the world famous Michael E. Gerber, the man who coined the term “Business Coach’ more than 30 years ago.

Gerber & Biz

I’ve written about Michael a couple of times because his business ideas have changed my life and the lives of many of my clients. The vision of building systems, the notion that each entrepreneur has three people in their heads;  the technician, the manager and the entrepreneur,  and that every real entrepreneur develops a business with scalability and replication built in have enamoured readers for decades. Read the rest of this entry

I was reminded of an old acquaintance today, Michael Gerber, and thought I might write a few words about this man who has single handedly saved more businesses from failure than any man alive. Yes, seriously!

I met Michael when I was a commercial photographer several years ago. He hired me to follow him around for a few days in Vancouver and Whistler when he was in town for a keynote speech at a local convention.  I was his tour guide as well,  so we shared some stories, had some meals together and as a surprise I sent him to the airport in a limo with a copy of his favorite paper, the New York Times (that’s really hard to find in Vancouver at 7 am). It was kewl to be with a true business thinker for 3 days. Read the rest of this entry