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Will you make mistakes? Will you change your mind? Of course you will! More often than not. But, done right, you will also have contingency plans in place. Best case, worst case. And sometimes you will simply fly by the seat of your pants; you will go with the flow, follow your intuition. Nothing written, nothing committed to paper, nothing concrete at all.

A Mature company is started differently than all the rest. A Mature company is founded on a broader perspective, an entrepreneurial perspective, a more intelligent point of view. And therein resides the true difference between an Adolescent company, where everything is left up to chance, and a Mature company, where there is a vision against which the present is shaped. That there is an entirely different way to start a business than the way you and most Technicians-turned-business-owners start theirs.

And that anyone can do it! As though, by answering that question, everything else will be answered. As if the answer to all of the frustrations most small business owners experience is somehow tied to particular people.

And so did Elizabeth. To build your business in an enlivening way. Are you ready? A Mature business knows how it got to be where it is, and what it must do to get where it wants to go. Therefore, Maturity is not an inevitable result of the first two phases. It is not the end product of a serial process, beginning with Infancy and moving through Adolescence. They started out that way! The people who started them had a totally different perspective about what a business is and why it works.

The person who launches his business as a Mature company must also go through Infancy and Adolescence. He simply goes through them in an entirely different way. His Entrepreneurial Perspective. Asked to what he attributed the phenomenal success of IBM, he is said to have answered: IBM is what it is today for three special reasons. The first reason is that, at the very beginning, I had a very clear picture of what the company would look like when it was finally done.

You might say I had a model in my mind of what it would look like when the dream—my vision—was in place. The second reason was that once I had that picture, I then asked myself how a company which looked like that would have to act.

I then created a picture of how IBM would act when it was finally done. The third reason IBM has been so successful was that once I had a picture of how IBM would look when the dream was in place and how such a company would have to act, I then realized that, unless we began to act that way from the very beginning, we would never get there.

In other words, I realized that for IBM to become a great company it would have to act like a great company long before it ever became one. From the very outset, IBM was fashioned after the template of my vision. And each and every day we attempted to model the company after that template. At the end of each day, we asked ourselves how well we did, discovered the disparity between where we were and where we had committed ourselves to be, and, at the start of the following day, set out to make up for the difference.

It reveals an understanding of what makes a great business great. It also tells us what makes all other businesses survivable at their best; intolerable at their worst. It tells us that the very best businesses are fashioned after a model of a business that works. It says that Tom Watson Sr. The Entrepreneurial Perspective starts with a picture of a well-defined future, and then comes back to the present with the intention of changing it to match the vision.

The Entrepreneurial Perspective envisions the business in its entirety, from which is derived its parts. The Entrepreneurial Perspective is an integrated vision of the world. To The Entrepreneur, the present-day world is modeled after his vision. To The Technician, the future is modeled after the present-day world.

The Entrepreneurial Perspective adopts a wider, more expansive scale. It views the business as a network of seamlessly integrated components, each contributing to some larger pattern that comes together in such a way as to produce a specifically planned result, a systematic way of doing business. Each step in the development of such a business is measurable, if not quantitatively, at least, qualitatively. The business operates according to articulated rules and principles.

It has a clear, recognizable form. His business is reduced to steps that fail to take him anywhere other than to the next step, itself nothing more than a replica of the one before it. Routine becomes the order of the day.

The Technician sees no connection between where his business is going and where it is now. Lacking the grander scale and visionary guidance manifest in the Entrepreneurial Model, The Technician is left to construct a model each step of the way. But the only model from which to construct it is the model of past experience, the model of work. What exactly is the Entrepreneurial Model? A solution in the form of a business that looks and acts in a very specific way, the way the customer needs it to look and act, not The Entrepreneur.

It understands that without a clear picture of that customer, no business can succeed. Such a business is designed to satisfy The Technician who created it, not the customer.

To The Entrepreneur, the business is the product. To The Technician, the product is what he delivers to the customer. To The Technician, the customer is always a problem. Because the customer never seems to want what The Technician has to offer at the price at which he offers it. To The Entrepreneur, however, the customer is always an opportunity. Because The Entrepreneur knows that within the customer is a continuing parade of changing wants begging to be satisfied.

All The Entrepreneur has to do is find out what those wants are and what they will be in the future. To The Technician, however, the world is a place that never seems to let him do what he wants to do; it rarely applauds his efforts; it rarely appreciates his work; it rarely, if ever, appreciates him. The question then becomes, how can we introduce the entrepreneurial model to The Technician in such a way that he can understand it and utilize it? The Technician has other things to do.

What we must do, instead, is discover a model that sparks the entrepreneurial imagination in each of us with such a resounding shock that by the time The Technician wakes up to the fact it will be too late, The Entrepreneur will be well on his way. But, at the same time, if the model is to work, if the model is to awaken The Entrepreneur within each of us to begin to rebuild our businesses around the Entrepreneurial Perspective they so desperately need to flourish, The Manager and The Technician need their own models.

Because if The Entrepreneur drives the business, The Manager must make certain it has the necessary fuel for sustenance, and that the engine and chassis are in a good state of repair. If The Technician is to be satisfied, on the other hand, there must be a model that provides him with work that satisfies his need for direct interaction with every nut and bolt.

In short, for this business model of ours to work, it must be balanced and inclusive so that The Entrepreneur, The Manager, and The Technician all find their natural place within it, so that they all find the right work to do.

To find such a model, let us examine a revolutionary development that has transformed American small business in an astonishing way. It was time for Sarah to open her store. And we still had a lot of work to do. There is no question of the impact each has had on our lives. If asked to describe the Turn-Key Revolution, however, most people would simply respond with a blank stare. Yet the impact of the Turn-Key Revolution on American small business, and the inferences we can draw about that impact for the future, are as profound as any of the phenomena cited above.

For at the heart of the Turn-Key Revolution is a way of doing business that has the power to dramatically transform any small business—indeed, any business, no matter what its size—from a condition of chaos and disease to a condition of order, excitement, and continuous growth.

It is the Turn-Key Revolution that provides us with that illusive key to the development of an extraordinary business: the ultimately balanced model of a business that works. What he saw there was a miracle. It worked like a Swiss watch! Best of all, anyone could do it. He watched high school kids working with precision under the supervision of the owners, happily responding to the long lines of customers queued up in front of the stand. It became apparent to Ray Kroc that what the MacDonald brothers had created was not just another hamburger stand but a money machine!

Soon after that first visit, and possessed by a passion he had never felt quite like that before, Ray Kroc convinced Mac and Jim MacDonald to let him franchise their method. Twelve years and several million hamburgers later, he bought them out and went on to create the largest retail prepared food distribution system in the world. And for good reason. But Ray Kroc created much more than just a fantastically successful business. He created the model upon which an entire generation of entrepreneurs have since built their fortunes—a model that was the genesis of the franchise phenomenon.

In , there were , franchised businesses in 75 industries. The franchise has been around for more than a hundred years. It is the Business Format Franchise that has revolutionized American business. It is the Business Format Franchise, with one new franchise opening its doors every eight minutes of every single business day, that has spawned so much of the success of the franchise phenomenon over the past forty years.

And, according to studies conducted by the U. Commerce Department from to , less than 5 percent of franchises have been terminated on an annual basis, or 25 percent in five years. Compare that statistic to the more than percent failure rate of independently owned businesses, and you can immediately understand the power of the Turn-Key Revolution in our economy, and the contribution that the Business Format Franchise has made to it and the future success of your business.

Under this system, the franchisor licenses the right to small companies to market its nationally known products locally. But the Business Format Franchise moves a step beyond the trade name franchise. The Business Format Franchise not only lends its name to the smaller enterprise but it also provides the franchisee with an entire system of doing business.

And in that difference lies the true significance of the Turn-Key Revolution and its phenomenal success. The Turn-Key Revolution and the Business Format Franchise were born of a belief that runs counter to what most business founders in this country believe.

Most business founders believe that the success of a business resides in the success of the product it sells. To the trade name franchisor, the value of the franchise lies in the value of the brand name that it is licensing: Cadillac, Mercedes, Coca- Cola. In a world where brand names proliferate like snowflakes in a Minnesota blizzard, it becomes more and more difficult—and infinitely more expensive—to establish a secure position with a brand name and expect to keep it.

As a result, trade name franchises have been declining over the same period that franchising in general has been exploding at an unprecedented rate. It is the Business Format Franchise that has accounted for that growth. Because the Business Format Franchise is built on the belief that the true product of a business is not what it sells but how it sells it. The true product of a business is the business itself. And he believed that for a most important reason.

And like most entrepreneurs, he suffered from one major liability. He had a huge dream and very little money. Enter the franchisee. The franchisee became the vehicle for Ray Kroc to realize his dream. At that point, Ray Kroc began to look at his business as the product, and at the franchisee as his first, last, and most important customer.

Forced to create a business that worked in order to sell it, he also created a business that would work once it was sold, no matter who bought it. Armed with that realization, he set about the task of creating a foolproof, predictable business. A systems-dependent business, not a people-dependent business. A business that could work without him. Unlike most small business owners before him—and since—Ray Kroc went to work on his business, not in it. He began to think about his business like an engineer working on a pre-production prototype of a mass-produceable product.

How could the components of the prototype be constructed so that it could be assembled at a very low cost with totally interchangeable parts?

How could the components be constructed so that the resulting business system could be replicated over and over again, each business working—just like the Model T—as reliably as the thousands that preceded it? What Ray Kroc did was to apply the thinking behind the Industrial Revolution to the process of Business Development, and to a degree never before experienced in a business enterprise. The business-as-a-product would only sell if it worked. And the only way to make certain it would work in the hands of a franchisee anywhere in the world would be to build it out of perfectly predictable components that could be tested in a prototype long before ever going into mass production.

Therein lies the secret behind the stunning success of the Business Format Franchise, the launching pad for the Turn-Key Revolution. That secret is the Franchise Prototype. It is in the Franchise Prototype that every successful franchisor builds his future. It is in the Franchise Prototype that every extraordinary franchisor plants the seeds of his fortune.

And it is in the Franchise Prototype that you can find the model you need to make your business work. If she had ever felt the weight of being a Technician-turned-business- owner, caught up in the doing of her business and the inordinate price she was paying for it, it was right now. As usual, she had had a tumultuous day. Her face was flush with the exertion of mopping the floors, bundling and tossing out the trash, preparing the ovens for the next day, cleaning the counters to their original high luster—in addition to a full day of waiting on customers; serving up pie, coffee, and tea; washing, drying, and stacking plates, cups, saucers; and shining the silver.

But she was obviously tired. We pulled two chairs up to a table and quietly sipped the tea she had prepared for us. The large clock ticked emphatically on the wall, punctuating our silence. An occasional car drove by the shop. I waited for a sign from Sarah that she was ready.

Finally, she began thoughtfully and quietly. Something important. I want to thank you for that. They associate fast food with low quality. When exactly the opposite is true.

But, let me get back to that in a moment. His purpose was clear, undiluted, and sure. To Ray Kroc, that was an inspiration. In fact, he was awed by it.

He was a simple man. As certainly as you loved producing an exceptional pie, Ray Kroc loved producing an exceptional result, the same way, with the same impact, time after time. He was a man in love.

You might say that the hamburgers could be fatter, or less fatty, or this or that. Because it does. It delivers exactly what we have come to expect of it every single time. Who among us small business owners can say we do things as well? It has created a model we can emulate. There is no perfectly shaped part of the motorcycle and never will be, but when you come as close as these instruments take you, remarkable things happen, and you go flying across the countryside under a power that would be called magic if it were not so completely rational in every way.

Robert M. Over the course of one year, Business Format Franchises have reported a success rate of 95 percent in contrast to the plus-percent failure rate of new independently owned businesses.

Where 80 percent of all businesses fail in the first five years, 75 percent of all Business Format Franchises succeed! The reason for that success is the Franchise Prototype. To the franchisor, the Prototype becomes the working model of the dream; it is the dream in microcosm.

The Prototype becomes the incubator and the nursery for all creative thought, the station where creativity is nursed by pragmatism to grow into an innovation that works. Without it the franchise would be an impossible dream, as chaotic and undisciplined as any business.

The Prototype acts as a buffer between hypothesis and action. Putting ideas to the test in the real world rather than the world of competing ideas.

The system runs the business. The people run the system. In the Franchise Prototype, the system becomes the solution to the problems that have beset all businesses and all human organizations since time immemorial. The system integrates all the elements required to make a business work.

It transforms a business into a machine, or more accurately, because it is so alive, into an organism, driven by the integrity of its parts, all working in concert toward a realized objective. And, with its Prototype as its progenitor, it works like nothing else before it.

The french fries were left in the warming bin for no more than seven minutes to prevent sogginess. Hamburgers were removed from the hot trays in no more than ten minutes to retain the proper moisture. The frozen meat patties, precisely identical in size and weight, were turned at exactly the same time on the griddle. Food was served to the customer in sixty seconds or less. Discipline, standardization, and order were the watchwords.

Cleanliness was enforced with meticulous attention to the most seemingly trivial detail. Ray Kroc was determined that the customer would not equate inexpensive with inattentive or cheap. Nowhere had a business ever paid so much attention to the little things, to the system that guaranteed the customer that her expectations would be fulfilled in exactly the same way every time.

This was accomplished by sending him through a rigorous training program before ever being allowed to operate the franchise. Every single extraordinary detail Ray Kroc invented four decades ago is even more extraordinary today.

And just as it was then, it is now. Once the franchisee learns the system, he is given the key to his own business. Thus, the name: Turn-Key Operation. And the franchisees love it! Because if the franchisor has designed the business well, every problem has been thought through. To The Manager, the Franchise Prototype provides the order, the predictability, the system so important to his life.

To The Technician, the Prototype is a place in which he is free to do the things he loves to do—technical work.

And to the small business owner, the Franchise Prototype provides the means through which he can finally feed his three personalities in a balanced way while creating a business that works. The Franchise Prototype is the model of a business that works.

And at Federal Express. And at Disney World. And at Mrs. It is a proprietary way of doing business that successfully and preferentially differentiates every extraordinary business from every one of its competitors.

In this light, every great business in the world is a franchise. The question is: How do you build yours? How do you put this powerfully liberating idea to work for you? How do you create your Franchise Prototype? How do you, like Ray Kroc, build a business that works predictably, effortlessly, and profitably each and every day?

How do you build a business that works without you? How do you get free of your business to live a fuller life? Do you get it? Do you see why this is so important? Because until you do it, your business will control your life! I could see that Sarah got it. I could see that her dark, intelligent, creative eyes were riveted on mine, and that the questions were bubbling within her.

She was feeling excitement contemplating the creation of an entrepreneurial business. And she knew she had one already. She could do in her business what Ray Kroc had done in his. All she needed to do was learn how! It is the combination of feelings and a function; shapes and things that come to one in connection with the discoveries made as one goes into the wood that pull it together and give meaning to form.

For if you do, neither your business nor your life will ever be the same. The point is: your business is not your life. Your business and your life are two totally separate things. At its best, your business is something apart from you, rather than a part of you, with its own rules and its own purposes. An organism, you might say, that will live or die according to how well it performs its sole function: to find and keep customers.

Once you recognize that the purpose of your life is not to serve your business, but that the primary purpose of your business is to serve your life, you can then go to work on your business, rather than in it, with a full understanding of why it is absolutely necessary for you to do so. This is where you can put the model of the Franchise Prototype to work for you.

Pretend that the business you own—or want to own—is the prototype, or will be the prototype, for 5, more just like it. That your business is going to serve as the model for 5, more just like it.

Not almost like it, but just like it. Perfect replicates. In other words, pretend that you are going to franchise your business. Note: I said pretend. Further, now that you know what the game is—the franchise game— understand that there are rules to follow if you are to win: 1. The model will provide consistent value to your customers, employees, suppliers, and lenders, beyond what they expect.

The model will be operated by people with the lowest possible level of skill. The model will stand out as a place of impeccable order. All work in the model will be documented in Operations Manuals. The model will provide a uniformly predictable service to the customer. The model will utilize a uniform color, dress, and facilities code. How do we understand it? I would suggest that value is what people perceive it to be, and nothing more. So what could your Prototype do that would not only provide consistent value to your customers, employees, suppliers, and lenders but would provide it beyond their wildest expectations?

That is the question every Entrepreneur must ask. It is in the understanding of value, as it impacts every person with whom your business comes into contact, that every extraordinary business lives. Value can be a word said at the door of the business as a customer leaves. Value can be an unexpected gift from the business arriving in the mail. Value can be the reasonable price of your products, or the dedication you show in the process of explaining them to a customer who needs more help than usual.

Value can be a simple word of thanks to your banker for his conscientiousness. Value is essential to your business and to the satisfaction you get from it as it grows.

Such people are at a premium in the marketplace. By lowest possible level of skill I mean the lowest possible level necessary to fulfill the functions for which each is intended. Obviously, if yours is a legal firm, you must have attorneys.

If yours is a medical firm, you must have physicians. You need to create the very best system through which good attorneys and good physicians can be leveraged to produce exquisite results. The question you need to keep asking yourself is: How can I give my customer the results he wants systematically rather than personally?

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