David JenynsAuthor & Founder of SYSTEMology® & systemHUB.

Who Makes A Good Franchisee?

Name: Who Makes A Good Franchisee?
Uploaded: 2024-10-11T22:00:17+00:00
Duration: 25 s
Channel: David Jenyns
Description: Short excerpt from a YouTube video (David Jenyns) about what makes a good franchisee. Speakers introduce the hiring philosophy they call…

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Short excerpt from a YouTube video (David Jenyns) about what makes a good franchisee. Speakers introduce the hiring philosophy they call "interdependence": candidates should be willing to follow systems when they exist (dependence) but able to act independently and improvise when systems are absent (independence). They contrast this middle-ground with undesirable extremes: pure entrepreneurs who disregard systems and highly rule-bound candidates who freeze without explicit instructions.

The culture that we found was hiring for what we call interdependence. So we looked for franchisees that were dependent enough that if a system existed, they'd follow it. But they were independent enough that if there was no system, they wouldn't freeze up, they'd wing it, they'd figure it.
Out, they'd do something on their own. So we wanted someone.
In the middle. So we didn't want a pure entrepreneur because they would just. They'd break all the systems and do it their own way. And we didn't want.
An engineer or an accountant that.
Just had to follow all the dots. And if there were no dots, they'd freeze. So we called it interdependence Dependence and Independence.