230 episodes
RUN LIKE CLOCKWORK: SMALL BUSINESS OPERATIONS Mike Michalowicz + Adrienne Dorison
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Giving you every tool you need to grow + scale your business with operational excellence, while also prioritizing your quality of life. Hosted by best-selling author + speaker Mike Michalowicz + operational efficiency expert + CEO, Adrienne Dorison, the Run Like Clockwork podcast is a series of insightful + topical operations conversations based on the best-selling book, Clockwork, to help small business owners design a business + team that runs itself. To stay in touch with all things Run Like Clockwork, you can check out runlikeclockwork.com. Subscribe, review + share your takeaways from each episode with us on social media so that we can connect!
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"Create Your Clockwork Blueprint to Freedom" with Alexis Kingsbury
Are you struggling to free up time, increase efficiency, and reduce key person dependency in your business?
In this episode, Adrienne Dorison interviews Alexis Kingsbury, the founder of AirManual, about his journey to creating his solution to those issues.
Alexis discusses the challenges he faced with traditional process documentation methods and how Air Manual was born out of the need for a tool that makes it easy for teams to create and follow processes.
This conversation explores:
The challenges of organizing digital workspaces and the benefits of using AirManual. Setting realistic expectations for finding information and improving client onboarding. Delegating hard tasks and making better decisions. How to support team members and create an incredible workplace. Clockwork and AirManual are partnering to provide a one-of-a-kind online masterclass that will guide you from feeling stuck in your operations to achieving life-changing freedom.
So… join us Wednesday, May 8th @ 10 am Eastern for our free webinar "Clunky to Clockwork: How to Make it Easy For Your Team To Do Things The Way You Want Them Done", and get our blueprint for scalable success.
In this training you’ll learn how to:
Unlock Efficiency: Discover how the "weakest link in the chain" method can resolve your most pressing inefficiencies.
Empower Your Team: Learn empowering techniques and tools that foster autonomy and reduce micromanagement.
Blueprint to Freedom: Step-by-step guidance on making your business self-sustaining for growth without constant oversight.
Achieve Life-Changing Results: Hear real success stories from businesses that have been transformation.
Get Immediate Impact: Leave with actionable knowledge and resources for quick, valuable changes.
To find out more and secure your space, head to airmanual.link/clockwork -
230. Clockwork Book Club: Interview with Mike Michalowicz
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 different!
You can share your reflections with us over on Instagram --> @rlclockwork
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229. Chapter 13: Pushback (And What To Do About It)
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.
If you would like access to our FREE Study and Discussion Guides, and the ability to binge the podcast instead of waiting for weekly episode drops, you can opt into a private feed here → http://www.runlikeclockwork.com/bookclub
You can share your reflections with us over on Instagram --> @rlclockwork
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228. Chapter 12: Putting It All Together
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.
If you would like access to our FREE Study and Discussion Guides, and the ability to binge the podcast instead of waiting for weekly episode drops, you can opt into a private feed here → http://www.runlikeclockwork.com/bookclub
You can share your reflections with us over on Instagram --> @rlclockwork
If you don't have your copy of the book yet, you can grab a physical, kindle, or audible version here.
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227. Chapter 11: Take the Four-Week Vacation
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.
If you would like access to our FREE Study and Discussion Guides, and the ability to binge the podcast instead of waiting for weekly episode drops, you can opt into a private feed here → http://www.runlikeclockwork.com/bookclub
You can share your reflections with us over on Instagram --> @rlclockwork
If you don't have your copy of the book yet, you can grab a physical, kindle, or audible version here. -
226. Chapter 10: Find And Fix Bottlenecks
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.
If you would like access to our FREE Study and Discussion Guides, and the ability to binge the podcast instead of waiting for weekly episode drops, you can opt into a private feed here → http://www.runlikeclockwork.com/bookclub
You can share your reflections with us over on Instagram --> @rlclockwork
If you don't have your copy of the book yet, you can grab a physical, kindle, or audible version here.
Customer Reviews
Accessible
I read Profit First during the pandemic and thought it was brilliant! I had questions around how to pay myself as the owner of the practice for years and the PF system gave me a great framework to apply. I really like Mike’s “regular guy” method of writing, so I then read Clockwork. It is SO evident I am the bottleneck in my business. I was excited to read a solution exists. From the book, I moved to the podcast - I was able to make it through all of the episodes on my cycling commutes to and from work within a couple months. I like how they are a reasonable length and very accessible - you don’t need a PhD in business to understand what Adrienne & her colleagues are discussing. From there, I have now signed up for the RLC Accelerator and loving it! I highly recommend this podcast 👍🏻
Hit or miss episodes
Sadly, the podcast presenter pulls down the listening enjoyment ( less talk, more insight)
Making operations fun!
I love Clockwork and am so excited to have this amazing additional resource to help me better understand and implement it!
Mike and Adrienne are such a a dynamic duo, and masters at making the complicated seem easy, approachable and TOTALLY doable. Plus they’re all hilarious, who knew business operations could be this fun?!
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