What’s the bottleneck in your business? It’s time to work less and make more by designing your business to Run Like Clockwork.
Today’s guest is Adrienne Dorison, co-founder of Run Like Clockwork. Mike Michalowicz wrote the book, Clockwork, and Adrienne runs the company.
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Episode Highlights:
- Operational Efficiency: Take corporate principles, apply them to small business owners
- Systemization: Small business owners need to get out of their own way, give up control
- Why design a business to run itself? Don’t make business dependent on business owner
- Reasons: Never know what may happen; take care of you, your family, clients, and team
- Time for Money: What is something only you can do? What is something you love to do? What is the vision for your company?
- Clockworking: Increase profit, grow business via free time to spend on valuable tasks
- Captain Vision: Stay on the deck, lead and guide the ship on what to do next
- ACDC Method: Identify and solve bottleneck problems; opportunities for progress
- Attract more leads to reach revenue goals
- Convert leads at average or above average conversion rate
- Deliver capacity and time for more of what you do
- Collect money and maintain cash flow
- Too Small for Clockwork? Sooner you understand how to remove things, focus on others
- 3T Framework: Trash and trim things to spend time in more valuable places
Links and Resources:
Run Like Clockwork
Clockwork: Design Your Business to Run Itself by Mike Michalowicz
Run Like Clockwork Accelerator
Run Like Clockwork Podcast
Profit First by Mike Michalowicz
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown
GreenOak Accounting
Therapy For Your Money Podcast