Today's Topics:

Start with Profit, Not Revenue

Expand Capacity Through Quality

Today’s show and the next 3 are focused on bringing the topic of Owner as Executive to a close. Since our first show (SHOW 4.1 Chapter 1: The End Game – A Self Managing Organization), everything has been about your mindset as a business owner. Seasons 1-3 in 2018 focused on ‘What To Do’, this Season it has been ‘Who Are You’.

This our final article in the series of Growing Managers. We started with the Discipline of Management, covered Promoting Smart, and the last edition was running a Manager Nursery. We identified the difference between management and leadership, what attributes to look for when promoting, and how to develop from within instead of hiring from the outside. Now the question is - how do I measure performance?

3 Topics for today’s show:

When and How Do You Plan to Depart

Maximizing the Value of the Business

Building Operational Plans

This article (and podcast) starts a new series on Finance for Landscape Business Owners of all sizes. The series is based on feedback the staff at Green Industry Pros Magazine received from its readers in 2018. We start with a summary of the basics for looking at your business and the next 10 articles.

Now that you have built a position that plays to your strengths, create positions around you that cover your weaknesses.

Based on your assessment profile or strengths and weaknesses, build your position description first.

This is a continuation of Show 4.2 - Chapter 2: Who Are You? We discussed are you a member of the .0025 club, the elite business owner who innately has all of the tools required to build a market dominating company? I don't and haven't met that person yet. Therefore that leaves you with 2 choices..

Our approach to research is pragmatic - find out what is working and then explain it. Here are the best of the best:

Ichak Adizes and the Process of Growth

Nassim Taleb and Antifragile

GrowthWorx and the Theory of Everything

A Self Managing Organization - Start of Season 4 and introduction of the book - Owner as Executive.

Show Notes: http://www.ownr.life/2018/10/season-4-book-owner-as-executive.html

Linkedin Article #1: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/self-managing-organization-part-1-william-eastman/

Linkedin Article #2: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/self-managing-organization-part-2-william-eastman/

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