The CEO Help Desk from Run Like Clockwork

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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.

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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 the next 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

• Grab our FREE Study and Discussion Guides by opting into a private feed here.

We can't wait to see how Clockwork will transform your life and business!

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Reminder, for this book club we are using the Revised and Expanded edition of Clockwork. If you don't have your copy of the book yet, you can grab a ⁠physical, kindle, or audible version here.⁠⁠