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