Keith Goodrum

Terry Dean’s post titled “E-myth Should Be Required Reading”, should be required reading, as well as the book. He says that this about the book:

“I read a ton of books, and this is one of the ones I read early on. It’s basic foundational material to running your own business, yet I’ve found a large number of people simply haven’t read it yet.”

He went on to say that a person who is good at a certain technical skill, gets hit with an “entrepreneurial seizure” and jumps into business. They are great at what they do, but are horrible at running a business. The lone business owner doesn’t have systems or plans in place to grow it beyond themselves.

Guilty as charged!

The above described me when I started my Window cleaning business. I was good cleaning windows, marketing, and was great at sales. The business grew like gangbusters. It grew so fast, and out grew my ability to keep up by myself. So, I did what you’re supposed to do… I hired people to help with the extra business. Things went great at first because I was on site with my crew. It was easy to teach them exactly how “things” were suppose to be done. I could inspect, teach and make corrections as we went along.

However things fell apart because there were no systems in place. It finally got to a point where I couldn’t be at every job to oversee the results. So, quality fell because no one had a guide to go by, and it drove my employees crazy. It drove me crazy because my employees weren’t producing the quality I wanted. It was a mess.

Putting in systems would have solved these problems.

Like Terry said creating systems is not easy. But, well worth the long term results.

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