The Seven Rules of Management Independence
- Know what you want
- Know you have the power to get it
- There can be no causes other than your own
- If you cannot manage yourself, you cannot manage anything
- There are no simple answers, only complex questions
- Before it gets better, it’s going to get worse
- These rules must become the defining principles of your life
Three types of people in business:
- The Emperor, who provides direction and the will and wakefulness necessary to remember it.
- The Manager has the authority to manifest the Emperor’s vision in business operations through processes and systems.
- The Technician has the authority to exercise her capability, capacity, and resources to execute the Manager’s processes and systems.
The E-Myth Manager Steps
- Understand your primary aim, away from the business.
- Become self aware. Know yourself.
- Commit to being aware of other people’s story. Know what is truly going on, not what you think is.
- Learn to see yourself as others see you.
- Understand the people and processes around you.
- Compose an impartial description of your life in the way you intend to lead it.
- Determine your strategic objective
- Remember that the S.O. is shaped by your primary aim
- Look at the organization – the work, the time, the money, the people, the product, the ethics, the morality, the culture – and measure it against your own clear definition of what it should be.
- Think about your ideal organization, and how you will get there: that is your S.O.
- Determine your financial strategy
- Understand that for the owners of the organization, money is very personal – it comes out of their pockets.
- Help make certain everyone understands how money works and how it doesn’t.
- Behave as though you own the organization.
- Foster an understanding and personal relationship with the employees and how money relates to them.
- Determine Organizational Strategy
- You do not organize people – you organize work
- Systems first, then people
- Determine what it is we need to accomplish
- originate your system as an enterprise, do it with true intention and attention, on purpose.
- Determine Management Strategy
- The role of the Manager is to engage with the present in a fully enlightened manner while inventing the future.
- If there is no passion in those under you, there is no flight in their wings.
- Do not innovate without an end goal to the innovations
- Innovate only with quantifiable measures in place
- Orchestrate your system so it is replicable.
- Determine a People Strategy
- Make sure that everyone in the organization masters:
- understanding the system
- sustaining the system
- practicing the system
- improving the system
- transforming the system
- Help people understand who they are and cope with their weaknesses and strengths (ie Enneagram/WorkTraits)