I continue with excerpts from Michael Gerber’s The Most Successful Small Business in the World. In principle Seven, Gerber talks about the freedom principle that is so much a part of small business motivation.
But now you’re the boss. And the freedom that we all believed a small business of our own creates does not happen on its own. Like all freedom, it depends on you. It requires you to change your behavior from that of an employee to that of an entrepreneur. The entrepreneur is psychologically far afield from the employee in you. He doesn’t want freedom because he already has it. He doesn’t create a small business to be free; he creates a small business to express the freedom he already posses.
In short, if the higher aim is to be realized at all, it must arise in Joseph. It must drive Joseph. It must become Joseph’s obsession…It must speak from him, and to him, whether he know how to speak so or not, whether or not he knows from where the voice comes.
Do you realize that you, the one reading this sentence right now, have been given a destiny to create a new world? You were given that even before you were born…You are called to grow beyond your comfort zone, to grow beyond your need to make a living. pp. 104-6.
In the next post, I will share how Michael proposed for us to achieve this business friend.
Your comments are welcomed…
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