Michael Gerber's Business Development Program, Step 4: Your Management Strategy

Beginning on p. 187, Gerber elaborates what he means by his management strategy. It's not what you think, and it's really important, so here goes:

You may think that the successful implement ion of a management strategy is dependent on finding amazingly competent managers--people with finely honed "people skills," with degrees from management schools, with highly sophisticated techniques for dealing with and developing their people.

It isn't

You don't need such people

Nor can you afford them.

What you need, instead, is a Management System.

The System will become your management strategy, that means through which your Franchise Prototype produces the results you want.

The System will become your solution to the problems that beset you because of the unpredictability of your people.

The System will transform your people problems into an opportunity by orchestrating the process by which management decisions are made while eliminating the need for such decisions wherever and whenever.

Have you ever worked for any company like this? Probably not. Listen to what he says, reread it, and then apply it to what you want to do.

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