EP 08 - Steve Simonson - The E-Myth Revisited Book Review

Just because you own a business doesn't mean you are a business owner. In this episode, Steve introduces the Awesomers Book of the Week. Written by Michael E. Gerber, E-Myth and E-Myth Revisited talk about entrepreneurial management and leadership. Here are more awesome things you will learn from this episode: Why having great technical skills does not mean you know how to run a business. The three different business systems: the hard system, soft systems, and information systems. How to focus on the big picture and work towards engineering your desired outcome and more. So listen to find out why E-Myth and E-Myth Revisited should be on every business owner’s book list. Welcome to the Awesomers.com podcast. If you love to learn and if you're motivated to expand your mind and heck if you desire to break through those traditional paradigms and find your own version of success, you are in the right place. Awesomers around the world are on a journey to improve their lives and the lives of those around them. We believe in paying it forward and we fundamentally try to live up to the great Zig Ziglar quote where he said, "You can have everything in your life you want if you help enough other people get what they want." It doesn't matter where you came from. It only matters where you're going. My name is Steve Simonson and I hope that you will join me on this Awesomer journey. SPONSOR ADVERTISEMENT If you're launching a new product manufactured in China, you will need professional high-resolution Amazon ready photographs. Because Symo Global has a team of professionals in China, you will oftentimes receive your listing photographs before your product even leaves the country. This streamlined process will save you the time money and energy needed to concentrate on marketing and other creative content strategies before your item is in stock and ready for sale. Visit Symo Global to learn more. Because a picture should be worth one thousand keywords. You're listening to the Awesomers podcast. 01:15 (Steve Simonson introduces today’s Book of the Week episode.) Steve: Again Awesomers, this is Steve Simonson coming back to you for another episode. Today's episode is a book of the week episode from Awesomers.com and our episode today is episode number 8 so you can go to Awesomers.com/8 to see show notes and relevant details about today's episode. So I want to just give you a little context of the concept of the book of the week show. So my principle is I'm going to share some of the books that have been deeply meaningful to me and instrumental in my journey and also those who have recommended books around me, I may also you know include those as part of our reviews. However most of the time I will have read this book. From time to time we'll even bring on the authors of these books as well so we can talk about the thinking behind the book and here's firsthand some of their philosophies on a live basis. I'm anxious to see you guys feedback about this but I do believe that learning is a key part of being an entrepreneur and I've talked in the past about how important thought leaders and some of the brightest minds in our world think about learning and that all the guys from Elon Musk and Warren Buffett and you know Sheryl Sandberg and so many others talk about reading as a critical part of our kind of evolution as entrepreneurs and as people and this always goes back to that concept of equity. This is intellectual equity where we're spending. So without further ado, let's jump in here. So today's book of the week is one that I think has been very very important in my journey and I've recommended this book