The E-Myth Manager: Why Management Doesn't Work--And What to Do About It

By Michael E. Gerber

Book Overview

More than ten years after his first bestselling book, The E-Myth, changed the lives of hundreds of thousands of small-business owners, Michael Gerber--entrepreneur, author, and speaker extraordinaire--fires the next salvo in his highly successful E-Myth Revolution. Drawing on lessons learned from working with more than 15,000 small, medium-sized, and very large organizations, Gerber has discovered the truth behind why management doesn't work--and what to do about it.

Regardless of their size or industry, most organizations seem to exist in a primarily dysfunctional state, notes Gerber. Even companies that appear to be successful suffer this same fate because management as we have come to know it is inherently flawed. What is required to truly transform both the job of the manager and the plight of the organization is nothing less than a revolution in the idea of management and its very execution.

But how does one even approach such an ambitious task? In reinventing the work of the manager, Gerber takes us back to the metaphorical birth of management, unearthing the arbitrary origins of such commonly held doctrines as:

the omniscience of the leader (Emperor)

the significance--and subjectivity--of implementing his Vision

the seemingly just and logical division of labor

Perhaps most significantly, he debunks the most widely embraced managerial myth of all' that we are able to manage anyone or anything other than ourselves.

In response to these "mythperceptions," Gerber proposes a fresh, provocative alternative to management as we know it. Placing the manager at the center of the managerial universe, The E-Myth Manager asks such career-challenging and life-affirming questions as: How can you expect to feel impassioned when you're working to meet someone else's goals? How can you effectively grow your department or company and the people in it if you don't "own" it? And'perhaps most important--f you don't know what you want out of your job and your life, how can you achieve it? In response, The E-Myth Manager explores how and why every manager must take charge of her own life, reconcile her own personal vision with that of the organization, and develop an entrepreneurial mind-set for both the individual and the organization to succeed. In addition, Gerber provides a revolutionary seven-step system for success that has been implemented by thousands of E-Myth Academy clients, large and small.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0887308406
• ISBN13: 9780887308406
• Release Date: May 1998
• Publisher: Harper Business
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 0.9" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

The E Myth Manager

If you have ever read any other books or white papers on management, I'd wager that at the end you still had a nagging feeling that you STILL didn't get how to put their theories into practice. This book takes a totally different approach to management, that you don't and can't manage people you manage processes. With that said, it gives you a concrete tactical approach to your problems in management. Easy,fast,read, written as a story.

Great addition to the series

I have used the principles of this book along with several other books by Mr.Gerber to perfect my financial brokerage company. Mr.Gerber has written a phenomenal series of books that show you a better way of thinking about your business. I use this book to train my managers and employees so that they can have a better context of my business.This book is one of the bible's of the entrepreneurial world, I believe that any entrepreneur that doesn't have this book is making their business harder than it should be.

The E-Myth Manager

In this sequel to his bestseller , Gerber continues his argument that modern management is dysfunctional and operates from inherently flawed assumption that we can manage anyone or anything other than ourselves. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

One of the most effective interpretations of management ever

This book effectively deals with the real issues of management - people, and there unsuitability to be part of a mere prescribed and mechanical process. It needs to be read at least three times and then to be re-enforced through a one to one (preferably) session(s) with an experienced practitioner in order that implementation is effective. This publication should be mandatory reading for all those "managers" in the public and voluntary sector - when they read it they will undertstand why.Andrew Lamb FSCA, FIPD, FInstDAuthor: Predicting Business failure

the most amazing management book I have ever read!

Managers die trying. But they're trying the wrong thing. This book tells them how to try the right thing and to find themselves in the process.