Welcome to our breakdown of Chapter 9 of Clockwork, Revised and Expanded: Design Your Business to Run Itself. In this episode, we discuss: How to complete a Job Trait Analysis Hiring for strengths instead of skills Using Clockwork as a retention tool on your team We suggest that you read the chapter and then come listen to this episode covering pages 149-171. Don't forget to use your ⁠⁠Study Guide⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠Discussion Guide⁠⁠ to get the most value out of book club! You can share your...

Welcome to our breakdown of Chapter 10 of Clockwork, Revised and Expanded: Design Your Business to Run Itself. In this episode, we discuss: How key metrics help you determine the health of your business What to feature on a high-level dashboard The ACDC bottleneck framework We suggest that you read the chapter and then come listen to this episode covering pages 172-199. Don't forget to use your ⁠⁠Study Guide⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠Discussion Guide⁠⁠ to get the most value out of book club! You...

Welcome to our breakdown of Chapter 11 of Clockwork, Revised and Expanded: Design Your Business to Run Itself. In this episode, we discuss: How key metrics help you determine the health of your business What to feature on a high-level dashboard The ACDC bottleneck framework We suggest that you read the chapter and then come listen to this episode covering pages 200-226. Don't forget to use your ⁠⁠Study Guide⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠Discussion Guide⁠⁠ to get the most value out of book club! You...

Welcome to our breakdown of Chapter 12 of Clockwork, Revised and Expanded: Design Your Business to Run Itself. In this episode, we discuss our takes on Roberto’s story! We suggest that you read the chapter and then come listen to this episode covering pages 227-236. Don't forget to use your ⁠⁠Study Guide⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠Discussion Guide⁠⁠ to get the most value out of book club! You can share your reflections with us over on Instagram --> ⁠⁠@rlclockwork⁠⁠ If you don't have your copy of the...

Welcome to our breakdown of Chapter 13 of Clockwork, Revised and Expanded: Design Your Business to Run Itself. In this episode, we discuss: Why we encounter pushback How Design can be just as taxing as Doing work Why you need to show up more when building trust  We suggest that you read the chapter and then come listen to this episode covering pages 237-250. Don't forget to use your ⁠⁠Study Guide⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠Discussion Guide⁠⁠ to get the most value out of book club! You can share...

This is our final episode in the Clockwork Book Club, and today we are talking to the Author of  “Clockwork, Revised and Expanded: Design Your Business to Run Itself”… Mike Michalowicz! In this episode, we discuss: What Mike wishes everyone knew about Clockwork The biggest updates to the system since the first edition of the book Why people resist the Four-Week vacation, and how to combat that! Every time we talk to Mike we always glean some new insights, and this episode is no...

Welcome to our breakdown of the Introduction and Chapter 1 of Clockwork, Revised and Expanded: Design Your Business to Run Itself. In this episode, we discuss: your #1 job as an entrepreneur productivity vs. efficiency growing vs. scaling We suggest that you read the chapter and then come listen to this episode covering pages xvii - 24. Don't forget to use your Study Guide and Discussion Guide to get the most value out of book club! You can share your reflections with us...

Welcome to our breakdown of Chapter 2 of Clockwork, Revised and Expanded: Design Your Business to Run Itself. In this episode, we discuss: How to do less to achieve more The value in narrowing your niche. Completing the Crush/Cringe Analysis We suggest that you read the chapter and then come listen to this episode covering pages 25-40. Don't forget to use your ⁠Study Guide⁠ and ⁠Discussion Guide⁠ to get the most value out of book club! You can share your reflections with...

Welcome to our breakdown of Chapter 3 of Clockwork, Revised and Expanded: Design Your Business to Run Itself. In this episode, we discuss: Why you need to protect your reputation above all. Declaring your Big BANG How to find your Big Promise We suggest that you read the chapter and then come listen to this episode covering pages 41-53. Don't forget to use your ⁠Study Guide⁠ and ⁠Discussion Guide⁠ to get the most value out of book club! You can share your reflections...

Welcome to our breakdown of Chapter 4 of Clockwork, Revised and Expanded: Design Your Business to Run Itself. In this episode, we discuss: The story behind why it’s called the QBR Why we love the Savannah Bananas How the QBR relates to the Big Promise We suggest that you read the chapter and then come listen to this episode covering pages 54-70. Don't forget to use your ⁠⁠Study Guide⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠Discussion Guide⁠⁠ to get the most value out of book club! You can share your...

Welcome to our breakdown of Chapter 5 of Clockwork, Revised and Expanded: Design Your Business to Run Itself. In this episode, we discuss: Differences between the QBR and Primary Roles Directly vs. Indirectly serving the QBR Completing the sticky note exercise We suggest that you read the chapter and then come listen to this episode covering pages 71-84. Don't forget to use your ⁠⁠Study Guide⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠Discussion Guide⁠⁠ to get the most value out of book club! You can share...

Welcome to our breakdown of Chapter 6 of Clockwork, Revised and Expanded: Design Your Business to Run Itself. In this episode, we discuss: Why this is a throttle, not a switch Deciding vs. Delegating The Design Trap We suggest that you read the chapter and then come listen to this episode covering pages 85-115. Don't forget to use your ⁠⁠Study Guide⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠Discussion Guide⁠⁠ to get the most value out of book club! You can share your reflections with us over on Instagram...

Welcome to our breakdown of Chapter 7 of Clockwork, Revised and Expanded: Design Your Business to Run Itself. In this episode, we discuss: our top tips and takeaways to avoid the sunk cost fallacy how to complete the 4T exercise why you really don't want to clone yourself. We suggest that you read the chapter and then come listen to this episode covering pages 116-127. Don't forget to use your ⁠⁠Study Guide⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠Discussion Guide⁠⁠ to get the most value out of book...

Welcome to our breakdown of Chapter 8 of Clockwork, Revised and Expanded: Design Your Business to Run Itself. In this episode, we discuss: How to get systems out of your head Why we don’t believe in written SOPs The value of continuous improvement We suggest that you read the chapter and then come listen to this episode covering pages 128-148. Don't forget to use your ⁠⁠Study Guide⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠Discussion Guide⁠⁠ to get the most value out of book club! You can share your reflections...

Welcome to The Clockwork Book Club! After 6+ years and two iterations of the book, we thought we were way past due to bring a book club to the podcast! Over these 14 episodes, we're diving into each chapter of the book, breaking down our biggest takeaways, and sharing more insights from behind the scenes of Clockworking. Here's how we recommend following along: Find an accountability group Read along with us chapter by chapter Use your Discussion and Study Guide to help solidify...