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Great businesses are not built by extraordinary people but by ordinary people doing extraordinary things. – Michael Gerber

December 14, 2021 By Jeremy Shapiro

Great businesses are not built by extraordinary people but by ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

Michael Gerber

Michael Gerber, author of The E-Myth Revisted, shares how great business are less about great people and more the great things that ordinary people do. And this is because of one thing: Systems.

McDonalds didn’t scale to their size by having extraordinary people. Because great businesses are not built by extraordinary people.

They created extraordinary systems that ordinary people were able to both manage and follow.

What kinds of systems do you have in your business?

What parts of your business still block on you and what of that can you outsource or delegate?

What processes in your business are inconsistent in their execution, i.e. are done differently depending on who’s doing it?

What systems are you missing in your business?

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