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Michael Gerber

Disciplines:
entrepreneurship
philosophy/systems thinking
entrepreneurship/small business consulting

Summary

American entrepreneur and author who created the E-Myth (Entrepreneurial Myth) framework — the argument that most small businesses fail because their founders confuse technical skill with business ownership.

Core Contribution

Identified the fundamental small business failure mode — the technician who believes skill at their craft makes them qualified to run a business — and prescribed the systems-based franchise-model solution.

Notable Works & Achievements

The E-Myth

The E-Myth Revisited

E-Myth Mastery

Historical Influences

Small business experience Franchise model thinking

Intellectual Lineage

Small Business ConsultingSystems Thinking Franchise Business Model

Contemporaries & Peers

Jim Collins Stephen Covey

Minds Influenced

Small business ownersEntrepreneur self-development tradition

Intellectual Posterity

E-Myth RevisitedE-Myth frameworkSmall business systems culture

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