Entrepreneur, the Manager, and the Technician. The entrepreneur is the visionary who thinks ahead and makes plans for the future, the manager, establishes order in the workplace, trying to create consistency. And the tech...

A business should grow through the following stages.

• Infancy
• Adolescence
• Maturity

The infancy stage is where the business operates on what the owner wants rather than what the business needs to grow and succeed. The owner does most of the work himself. This stage ends when the owner can’t keep up with demand and supply or qua...

The adolescence stage is where you’ve decided to let your business grow and it begins to reach outside of your comfort zone. For the The work becomes too much for a single technician to handle and the business can grow to the extent that subordinates can be managed. For the entrepreneur it is how...

The ultimate goal of any entrepreneur. The maturity phase means your business has a clear vision and purpose. The owner must handle the entrepreneurial aspect of running a business by hiring managers to follow the vision of the company and to manage the technicians who are doing the work.

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Documenting all of the steps that go into marketing, creating new products, sales, book keeping, everything.

The systems need to guide every aspect and stage of the business including solutions to problems that might arise. The model must provide consistent value to your customers. It must ...

In order to run a successful business, you can’t remain just a technician. You can’t hire people to build your business for you and hope they get it right. You need to focus on making the business everything you want it to become. You need to take the time to make it systems dependent so you aren...