# Owner / CEO Transition Resources

## Knowledge

- [Article: The Three Business Personalities — EMyth](https://www.emyth.com/inside/the-three-business-personalities-entrepreneur-manager-technician)
  Primary framing for Technician / Manager / Entrepreneur. Use for: diagnosing labourer vs owner modes; work, time, and money lenses.
- [Book: *The E-Myth Revisited* — Michael E. Gerber](https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-e-myth-revisited-michael-e-gerber)
  Foundational: most businesses fail because owners work *in* the business as technicians, not *on* it as entrepreneurs. Use for: systems, franchise prototype mindset, working on vs in.
- [Essay collection: How to Get Rich — Naval Ravikant](https://nav.al/rich)
  Equity, leverage, and why renting time cannot produce wealth. Use for: wealth vs money vs status; ownership; leverage types.
- [Essay: Seek Wealth, Not Money or Status — Naval](https://nav.al/seek-wealth)
  Definitions: wealth = assets that earn while you sleep. Use for: clarifying the goal behind “equity wealth.”
- [Essay: You Won’t Get Rich Renting Out Your Time — Naval](https://nav.al/renting-time)
  Inputs tied to outputs = no non-linear returns. Use for: why pure freelancing / pure coding labour fails the mission.
- [Book: *Built to Sell* — John Warrillow](https://builttosell.com/)
  Turning a craftsperson’s practice into a productized, sellable business. Use for: “no one buys a company whose owner is the product.”
- [Book: *High Output Management* — Andrew S. Grove](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/72135/high-output-management-by-andrew-s-grove/)
  Management as a production process; leverage through people and meetings. Use for: when you start leading others, not only code.

## Wisdom (Communities)

- [Indie Hackers](https://www.indiehackers.com/)
  Founders building products in public; operator-level discussions. Use for: product/revenue experiments, peer accountability.
- [r/Entrepreneur](https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/) and [r/smallbusiness](https://www.reddit.com/r/smallbusiness/)
  Mixed signal; filter for operators with numbers. Use for: operational questions after you have a concrete metric.
- Local: founder meetups / operator dinners in your city
  Use for: real feedback on offers, pricing, and hiring — wisdom that blogs cannot give.

## Gaps

- Specific unit-economics / pricing playbooks for *your* product category — fill once the product is named in NOTES.
- Country-specific tax/equity structure guidance — only when incorporation or exit planning is active.