Navigate your business through the hardest times
The EMyth Guide to Crisis Management gives you a five-step process to build a system for navigating short-term change with a future vision.
8 steps to effective negotiation
One of the essential skills for any business owner is negotiation. How well you can negotiate a favorable agreement or deal for your business makes the difference between growing to achieve your goals and not. There are so many different types of relationships—ones with your employees, your vendors, your customers...
One business owner’s experience: Applying for Paycheck Protection Program funds
Just like so many of you, my company’s been hit hard by the coronavirus crisis. Since the end of February, I’ve woken up every morning relieved that today wasn’t the day I had to ask our Team to take a pay cut. Layoffs have been out of the question except as the last possible resort—and I’m just glad we haven’t re...
Ask the right interview questions
How do you run an interview that makes sure you find the employee your company needs? We can show you.
Your five-step crisis management plan
In moments of crisis, it can be hard to see beyond the overwhelm. You may be faced with the need to keep employees safe, manage productivity, protect revenue—or all three at once—in an environment that’s constantly changing. But often in crisis, there’s opportunity. As the leader of your business, taking hold of t...
Four stories of owners saving their business with a quick pivot
Your Customer Fulfillment system—the way you deliver your product or service to your customers—is an essential part of every business. But at EMyth, we talk often with our clients about how your fulfillment system is more than your product or service: It’s the promise you make to your customers, the experience the...
Get control of your finances
See how money is functioning in your business, and how to leverage your P&L for future planning with the EMyth Guide to Strengthening Your Financial Systems.
Find more time in your day.
The key to finding more time in your day is understanding how you use the time you already have.
Now is the time for systems
The world is experiencing a seismic shift, and it’s affecting businesses of all sizes—including ours. An email from a business I follow, sent on March 17, offered a poignant example: Inside the CEO publicly shared a letter to her employees, announcing a minimum 8-week closure of all their stores and a full company...
How to survive a financial crisis
As a small business ourselves, we know that the national crisis of the coronavirus is likely creating unexpected financial challenges for many of you. We feel it, too. But the good news is that support for small business is coming, either through state or federal government assistance or through organizations offe...
Build the perfect org chart for your business
Designing an org chart is the first step to intentionally developing the systems your business needs to run as it should consistently—and without people dependency. Here’s our Guide to Creating Your Org Chart, so you can understand how an org chart works and start creating a company structure around positions and ...
Two tools to keep your team focused on results
Now is a particularly challenging moment to show up for and manage your people. As a business owner weathering a global economic crisis, you have so many demands on your time and focus—not least of which may be keeping your business financially afloat. So making sure your team has what they need to do their jobs a...
How to go remote in a hurry: Lessons from an all-remote team
When EMyth went fully remote last year, we had the benefit of time to support our transition—time to research, develop and implement an action plan so that we could be as successful a remote team as we were an on-site team. In this current moment of the coronavirus crisis, when remote working has become at least r...
Leading your business in the time of coronavirus
Starting last Tuesday, the topic of COVID-19 and the coronavirus became a part of each of my coaching calls, and as the week went on, it started to consume more and more time. Conversations about whether or not we should prepare quickly turned to, “We’ve already lost a job,” and “We’re going to shut our doors unti...
The three business personalities: Entrepreneur, Manager, Technician
Every business owner takes on three distinct personalities in how they think about—and work within—their business. The Technician lives in the present and is focused on doing the work of making it, selling it, and delivering it. The Manager focuses on achieving results through people and systems, focusing on the p...
How OtterBox broke $1B: Listen on NPR
When Curt Richardson started OtterBox in 1998, he didn’t have a college degree. But that didn’t stop him from building a business that generated $1B in revenue in 2019. Hear how he did it in this inspiring interview on NPR’s How I Built This, with Guy Raz.
The real key to decluttering? Delegation.
Creating the environment you need to be a better business owner—to do the work that matters most to your business—takes structure. You need to structure your communication system, workspace and calendar in a way that lets you escape the tactical work that gets in the way of being a true Entrepreneur. And once you’...