Master Business Disciplines

by Dale Shumaker
4spirit@gmail.com

Michael Gerber identifies 7 business disciplines that when we master them we will have a "world class business." Business is about doing the right things and doing them well.

It is a discipline, a focus, a passion, a commitment. In The E-Myth Mastery, these 7 disciplines are explained with free "worksheets" you can download from
http://www.emythmastery.com/
to help you make them part of your business.

The foundation is the entrepreneur spirit which needs nurtured and kept alive in you. Discover the entrepreneur in you and re-energize your vision, with perpetual passion through a powerful purpose.

Here are the Seven Disciplines for building a business with a few highlights from each one.

1. The enterprise leader. Your plan must be heart-centered as well as head centered. Start with what is most important to you. Create a plan that accommodates change, a living document with room to expand and grow.

2. The marketing leader. Marketing starts with your customer. So know your customer. Learn and understand how your customers think , especially "unconscious" patterns, and make decisions. Create a unique selling position.

3. The financial leader. What is your philosophy of money? This determines how you spend it. Movement of cash is very important in a business and create systems that keep it flowing. Know how money comes into your business and how it goes out... create strategically timed systems of cash in, cash going out.

4. The management leader. Create an environment where people can expand with you and that you all can flex with change. Integrate your vision with their visions and become one thing. Build structures, processes and systems for ease of work, communication flow. Train and provide tools so everyone can do their jobs as well as possible.

5. The fulfillment leader. Remember it is One Thing... everything affects everything else. Integrate all systems. Identify and make clear the processes for all areas. Expand technology and automated systems in your production, delivery, and customer service processes.

6. The lead conversion leader. It's about relationships. Selling is not selling; it is relationship building. Gerber's model is.... engage with your prospective customer, repeat emotional message of "your" promise, determine customer's needs, provide a solution, offer the product. Your existing customer base is the best for building long-term steady revenue with solid relationships.

7. The lead generation leader. As the owner, CEO make a list of 15 lead generation ideas, have each of all your people do the same, meet and discuss them. Then select possible media, content, process to complete. Determine the extensiveness of the reach, the content, costs and effectiveness.

The E-Myth Mastery is designed to take a small business to world class status... to be a thriving, continuously expanding enterprise. It is very comprehensive and a business could easily spend 3-6 months restructuring his business. (By the way, this is what I do; I help business owners facilitate restructuring but going one step beyond world class... to be Powered by the Spirit of the Universe.)

What is most important is the discipline aspect of all this? It will make a business run like a well engineered vehicle. But there is more.

When a business adds ingredients of Spirit it will soar beyond World Class. It will be High-Powered in a Realm of its own. Spirit Power is universe creating Power. As business people, we may over-look this power that is available to us.

Jesus said to focus on the invisible and the power of it. He lived out many examples while here on earth to prove we are made to function Super-Naturally...above world class... Spirit-powered, God-level creating class. All the powers of Jesus on earth have been released for us to use as well. It is most evident when All of Jesus Believers function as One group.
This is where the power is.

It requires personal discipline to have the Jesus-level of Spirit power in our lives. Just two people in a business venture, totally committed to Jesus Spirit and each disciplined in their Spiritual lives, can manifest the same level of power Jesus demonstrated while on earth. If within an organization, just two share the purposes of the Kingdom of Heaven, this power is at their disposal… it’s a matter of choosing to use it. It's a matter of being disciplined in our lives to build it within us.

Jesus Promised it.
God promised it when He said...
No one can defeat or overcome My purposes( Isaiah 14:24).

Building a world class company requires Discipline. When we live in Spirit, daily disciplining our lives to ingredients of Spirit, we will exhibit all the Power of Jesus in our lives. We are negligent to our potential if we think we can see Real Spiritual Power in our lives without daily practicing the disciplines of living in Spirit.

The Discipline requires constant focus in Inspired Scriptures, uninterrupted periods of meditation, dwelling in the Spirit, concentrating on Things of Spirit in and around us.

Jesus went off often alone to pray...to spend time in the Spirit of God... extended times. There He heard from God. He was empowered by Spirit.
What followed these encounters in Spirit?
He healed many, spoke convincingly, walked in Power.

We can do it too, when we DO the same.

Be Disciplined in Spirit. Integrate mind, soul, body as one
(in His Spirit).
and comb relationships with others as One Thing
(in Spirit with each other).

This is where the power is!

Jesus said... "the gate is narrow and few enter through it." (Matt: 7:14.NLT)
“The door to heaven is narrow. Work hard to get in.” (Luke 13:24, NLT)

It is about discipline in Spirit, just like discipline in world class business.
Universe-creating power has a creating power above what world systems are capable.

The Power of Spirit becomes evident…releasing through our lives.
Spirit vision becomes a visible reality. Visions become Realities.
Spirit is Reality... if we go there.

So go There. And Power of Spirit goes with you!

"First I predicted your deliverance; I declared what I would do, and then I did it--I saved you. No foreign god has ever done this before. You are witnesses that I am the only God," says the LORD. "From eternity to eternity I am God. No one can oppose what I do. No one can reverse my actions." (Isaiah 43:12-13, NLT)