228 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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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
If you don't have your copy of the book yet, you can grab a physical, kindle, or audible version here. -
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. -
225. Chapter 9: Balance The Team
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.
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. -
224. Chapter 8: Capture Systems
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.
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.