--- title: Small Business Coaching, Resources & Tools | EMyth Blog | Small Business Leadership description: Small Business Leadership | The EMyth blog is the go-to resource for small business owners looking for help. You’ll find practical advice and simple tools to build a world-class business. --- # Small Business Leadership [Small Business Leadership](https://www.emyth.com/inside/topic/small-business-leadership)[Business Partnerships](https://www.emyth.com/inside/topic/business-partnerships) ### [How to build a business partnership that works](https://www.emyth.com/inside/how-to-create-a-business-partnership) Managing a business partnership may be the only thing more difficult than managing a business. Partnerships are hard for the same reasons that any relationship is hard. It takes diligence and work to bring together personalities, communication styles, and ideals. And if you want your partnership to serve your busi... ![Adam Traub - EMyth](https://www.emyth.com/hs-fs/file-1551805651-jpg/headshots/ATraub_400px.jpg?w=80&h=80&fm=jpg&q=&fit=max) Adam Traub ## Latest Posts [Managing Employees](https://www.emyth.com/inside/topic/managing-employees)[Small Business Leadership](https://www.emyth.com/inside/topic/small-business-leadership) ### [Delegation vs. Abdication: Why The Difference Matters](https://www.emyth.com/inside/delegation-vs-abdication) [Work-Life Balance](https://www.emyth.com/inside/topic/work-life-balance)[Small Business Leadership](https://www.emyth.com/inside/topic/small-business-leadership) ### [8 ways to stay sane when you can’t take a break from your business](https://www.emyth.com/inside/8-self-care-tactics-entrepreneur) [Time Management](https://www.emyth.com/inside/topic/time-management)[Small Business Leadership](https://www.emyth.com/inside/topic/small-business-leadership) ### [How to spend your time where it counts](https://www.emyth.com/inside/how-to-allocate-time-as-a-small-business-owner) [Small Business Leadership](https://www.emyth.com/inside/topic/small-business-leadership) ### [Your five-step crisis management plan](https://www.emyth.com/inside/your-five-step-crisis-management-plan) ![Smart Business Coach](https://www.emyth.com/hubfs/Smart-business-coach.png?auto=compress&fit=max) ## Request a free coaching session with a Certified EMyth Coach [![Talk to a Coach](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/411995/14924c09-8a82-42d7-90b9-55a5c68c5989.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/411995/14924c09-8a82-42d7-90b9-55a5c68c5989) [Small Business Leadership](https://www.emyth.com/inside/topic/small-business-leadership) ### [The five core leadership skills](https://www.emyth.com/inside/the-five-core-leadership-skills) Starting a business doesn’t naturally transform you into a leader. In fact, many business owners we work with didn’t get into business to be leaders. They simply wanted to follow their dream, to use their natural interest or talents to create their own path in life. For these folks, the idea of leading can be anyt... ![Tricia Huebner - EMyth](https://emyth.imgix.net/headshots/THuebner_450.jpg?w=80&h=80&fm=jpg&q=&fit=max) Tricia Huebner [Managing Employees](https://www.emyth.com/inside/topic/managing-employees)[Small Business Leadership](https://www.emyth.com/inside/topic/small-business-leadership) ### [How to effectively delegate work to your team](https://www.emyth.com/inside/how-to-delegate-work-to-your-employees) Creating the environment you need to be a better business owner—to do the work that matters most to your business—takes structure. You have 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’... ![Kirstin Fulton - EMyth](https://emyth.imgix.net/kirstin-fulton.jpg?w=80&h=80&fm=jpg&q=&fit=max) Kirstin Fulton [Small Business Leadership](https://www.emyth.com/inside/topic/small-business-leadership)[Business Vision](https://www.emyth.com/inside/topic/business-vision) ### [How to design a business model](https://www.emyth.com/inside/how-to-create-a-business-model-that-works) Do you remember your mindset back when you decided to start your own business? You were good at something, and you knew it. Why spend your time doing that something for someone else when you could have the freedom of being your own boss? But then you got wrapped up doing the work of the business—doing the graphic ... ![Jayne Speich - EMyth](https://emyth.imgix.net/jaynespiech_100px_hubspot.png?w=80&h=80&fm=jpg&q=&fit=max) Jayne Speich ## Want a self-sufficient business—and life you love? #### Get the latest insights, downloads, and practical tools, right in your inbox. ##### Get Our Newsletter [Business Systems](https://www.emyth.com/inside/topic/business-systems)[Small Business Leadership](https://www.emyth.com/inside/topic/small-business-leadership)[Small Business Design](https://www.emyth.com/inside/topic/small-business-design) ### [Designing a business that serves your life](https://www.emyth.com/inside/lifestyle-design) When you think about your business and life as a business owner, do you know why you do what you do? Does leading your business provide the life you imagined it would when you started it, or is it running you ragged with little payoff? ![EMyth Team - EMyth](https://emyth.imgix.net/INSIDE-EMyth-300x300px.jpg?w=80&h=80&fm=jpg&q=&fit=max) EMyth Team [Small Business Leadership](https://www.emyth.com/inside/topic/small-business-leadership)[Small Business Organization](https://www.emyth.com/inside/topic/small-business-organization) 4 min read ### [How to eliminate silos in your business](https://www.emyth.com/inside/the-danger-of-silos-in-your-small-business) If your business is big enough to have managers and possibly even “departments” then you are probably familiar with the phenomenon of a silo structure. When you have reached the point in your business growth that you have hired managers and the reporting structure has become identifiably vertical in each area, or ... ![Jayne Speich - EMyth](https://emyth.imgix.net/jaynespiech_100px_hubspot.png?w=80&h=80&fm=jpg&q=&fit=max) Jayne Speich [Small Business Leadership](https://www.emyth.com/inside/topic/small-business-leadership) ### [Identify and overcome your unproductive leadership behaviors](https://www.emyth.com/inside/unproductive-leadership-behaviors) Your business is a reflection of you. In every way, shape and form—from top to bottom—your business reflects your courage and fears. It reflects what you care about: your ideals, values, beliefs, experiences, knowledge and decision-making. This powerful EMyth Principle appears in the beginning pages of The EMyth R... ![Tricia Huebner - EMyth](https://emyth.imgix.net/headshots/THuebner_450.jpg?w=80&h=80&fm=jpg&q=&fit=max) Tricia Huebner [Systems Thinking](https://www.emyth.com/inside/topic/systems-thinking)[Small Business Leadership](https://www.emyth.com/inside/topic/small-business-leadership) ### [Leading the way to a systems-thinking culture in your small business](https://www.emyth.com/inside/leadership-support-for-systems-thinking) When you want to develop the systems in your business, one part of the journey is persuading your team to come along. Every business that works needs a balance of structure (your systems) and substance (your people). Without the commitment from your employees that they’re going to work the systems as you’ve design... ![EMyth Team - EMyth](https://emyth.imgix.net/INSIDE-EMyth-300x300px.jpg?w=80&h=80&fm=jpg&q=&fit=max) EMyth Team [Business Systems](https://www.emyth.com/inside/topic/business-systems)[Systems Thinking](https://www.emyth.com/inside/topic/systems-thinking)[Small Business Leadership](https://www.emyth.com/inside/topic/small-business-leadership) ### [How to run your business like NASA going to the moon](https://www.emyth.com/inside/how-to-apply-systems-thinking-in-your-business) Most small business owners come to us because they believe they want systems, but they don’t yet realize something important: Their business is already built around systems. It’s just that some of those systems aren’t producing the results they want. ![EMyth Team - EMyth](https://emyth.imgix.net/INSIDE-EMyth-300x300px.jpg?w=80&h=80&fm=jpg&q=&fit=max) EMyth Team [Small Business Leadership](https://www.emyth.com/inside/topic/small-business-leadership) ### [9 coach tips for getting new perspective on your business](https://www.emyth.com/inside/fresh-perspectives-in-business) When you have a small business, it’s easy to get stuck in the chronic issues you face, to feel alone in your frustration and unable to see the problems in a different way—and often for what they really are. The truth is, finding solutions and innovating often takes escaping your own limited point of view. You need... ![EMyth Team - EMyth](https://emyth.imgix.net/INSIDE-EMyth-300x300px.jpg?w=80&h=80&fm=jpg&q=&fit=max) EMyth Team [EMyth Approach](https://www.emyth.com/inside/topic/emyth-approach)[Small Business Leadership](https://www.emyth.com/inside/topic/small-business-leadership) ### [Our top blogs of 2022](https://www.emyth.com/inside/emyth-top-blogs-2022) Let’s be honest. It’s been another challenging year for the owners and operators of small businesses. You’ve had to find a new normal as Covid restrictions eased. The prices of goods and services you depend on to operate have shot up, often cutting into already thin margins. Your employees are looking to you for r... ![EMyth Team - EMyth](https://emyth.imgix.net/INSIDE-EMyth-300x300px.jpg?w=80&h=80&fm=jpg&q=&fit=max) EMyth Team [Entrepreneurial Mindset](https://www.emyth.com/inside/topic/entrepreneurial-mindset)[Small Business Leadership](https://www.emyth.com/inside/topic/small-business-leadership) ### [A message of hope from one business owner to another](https://www.emyth.com/inside/a-message-of-hope-to-small-business-owners) Let’s be honest. It’s been another challenging year for the owners and operators of small businesses. You’ve had to find a new normal as Covid restrictions eased. The prices of goods and services you depend on to operate have shot up, often cutting into already thin margins. Your employees are looking to you for r... ![Ilene Frahm - EMyth](https://app.hubspot.com/settings/avatar/bccfbf08d81171b066439619e9e012a6?w=80&h=80&fm=jpg&q=&fit=max) Ilene Frahm [Entrepreneurial Mindset](https://www.emyth.com/inside/topic/entrepreneurial-mindset)[Small Business Leadership](https://www.emyth.com/inside/topic/small-business-leadership) ### [How to turn limiting beliefs into productive beliefs](https://www.emyth.com/inside/how-to-overcome-limiting-beliefs-as-an-entrepreneur) n less than two years, we’ve seen such incredible shifts in workforce trends that the traditional model of five days in the office seems like a thing of the past. And among the conversations of how, where and when to work, the theme of a shorter work week is slowly becoming louder. Recent studies on a four-day wor... ![Jayne Speich - EMyth](https://emyth.imgix.net/jaynespiech_100px_hubspot.png?w=80&h=80&fm=jpg&q=&fit=max) Jayne Speich