Michael Gerber: Management by Abdication

In the world of Michael Gerber [see pp. 101-2], the result of the business owner's failure to design the process of his or her business so that ordinary people can do extraordinary things, is what Gerber calls:

Management by Abdication: The typical owner of a small business prefers highly skilled people because he believes that they make his job easier--he can simply leave the work to them.

The business then depends on the whim of the people:

It is literally impossible to produce a consistent result in a business that depends on extraordinary people. No business can do it for long. And no extraordinary business tries to!

Gerber's solution, use his business development process as the solution. The last part of his book lays this out in excellent detail. I'm not going to do that part, I'll leave it to you to do it for yourself.

What do you think of this? The goal is to produce more skilled entrepreneurs. Does this help? Tell me. Post a comment. I'd like to know.

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