Ten Principles of the Most Successful Small Businesses in the World

From one of the world’s leading authorities and authors on entrepreneurship and small business comes a highly relatable, easily consumable, and assuredly unforgettable book on creating and building a stunningly successful business in the midst of these historic economic, market and geo-political challenges in our world.   In Michael E. Gerber’s latest book, THE MOST SUCCESSFUL SMALL BUSINESSES IN THE WORLD: The Ten Principles (Wiley, $24.95; January 2010), readers will be emboldened by not just a message of hope, but by a journey that unveils the guiding principles upon which all great companies must rely.

As Founder of E-Myth Worldwide and Founder and Chairman of Michael E. Gerber Companies, Inc., Gerber has dedicated his life to transforming over 70,000 small businesses in over 145 countries.  His books and companies are created to reach those who are inspired by the possibility of creating world class companies – companies that fulfill that deep abiding vision in each of us to transform our world. 

His first of thirteen international bestselling books, The E-Myth (Ballinger Publishing Company, 1985), introduced small business owners to the importance of working on their business, not in it, and started a bona fide worldwide E-Myth revolution through the development of legendary business systems used in thousands of companies around the world. Inspired by what Gerber calls “the awakened entrepreneur,” he wrote Awakening the Entrepreneur Within (HarperCollins, 2008) which introduced the belief that to truly flourish, a business must have manifest its dream, vision, purpose and mission in a way that is transformational to its customers, employees, suppliers, lenders and shareholders.  The book, like all of Gerber’s books, was written about real businesses and real people who he helped find their dream and develop their vision, purpose and mission to transform their business and life. 

Now, in THE MOST SUCCESSFUL SMALL BUSINESSES IN THE WORLD, Gerber will teach his legion of fans how to go beyond the obvious, to challenge the academic, to chase away the conditions which ensnare us, to engage in a conversation they have never had before.  He shares his deep insight from conversations he has had hundreds of thousands of times with people who have launched their businesses in the wrong way.  From those conversations he has created the platform he calls The Ten Principles for which this book is written and for which will serve as the cornerstone and foundation to build the company you will discover as you read this book.   

The book delivers important insight into:  

• How to identify a company’s essential “system”—its highly differentiated way of doing business—that will be the cornerstone of its success
• Building a business of great imagination—a self-reliant “reach” that will create economic certainty in any climate
• Creating a center of growth and learning for employees that will in turn develop a business beyond any standard that formerly existed
• Instilling a higher purpose that can move a business and its customers to greater levels of fulfillment and growth
• And much, much more…