The Replaceable Founder with Ari Meisel
We can get locked on the need to be needed, to feel important and indispensable… and without even realizing it. How about challenging that mindset? Moving to the notion that you seek to make yourself replaceable. That there can be an even better way of doing things, one that saves you time, energy, and ultimately grows your business even with your absence. Ari Meisel helps entrepreneurs become replaceable so their business can grow without them. In this episode, Ari challenges our conventional way of thinking. That there is always a different way of doing things that work and that you just have to be willing to do and try it. What you will learn from this episode: Learn how to create a documented system and process within the organization that allows for transparency to avoid disruptions Find out the whole methodology of less doing which is about optimization, automation, and outsourcing Find out the tactics you are already using in your personal lives that works just as well in your business to keep on winning every time "The whole methodology of less doing is based on OAO. It's optimize, automate, outsource, in that order." - Ari Meisel Topics Covered: 01:07 - What makes his bio unique, brief, and concise? 01:44 - Get out of your way! 02:47 - Teaching the mindset of a leader that is replaceable 04:47 - Many companies are not doing communication effectively 05:37 - What is an asynchronous communication 07:19 - The sub-areas of communication that one needs to be dealing within the organization 10:05 - How the methodology of less doing works 11:48 - What it means to go automated and what are the basics of automation 12:54 - The value in outsourcing and delegation 14:29 - How to do things better? Get your FREE resource at less.do/facebook 15:05 - Are there any situations where you're not replaceable? 16:41 - One thing he does with his business that proves his idea of a replaceable founder that works Key Takeaways: "The truth is that being irreplaceable makes you stuck. If you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted, and the entrepreneurs that I work with, have the freedom to leave the business if they so choose, go out, explore, learn, and then contribute those back into the business and the business doesn't crumble in their absence." "A lot of it is a mindset. I don't mean mindset in terms of like, you are important, and you are special. No, it's really just about like the way that we approach the ownership that we have over the work that we do. And ultimately, how much we can empower the people that we work with." "Unfortunately, you have so many people who work in, whether or not they work in an industry that has a history, but it's worse when people are in an industry that has a culture -- generational way of doing things. And then they can't see that there might be another way. It's just we do it because that's how we've always done it." "The majority of communication nowadays should be done asynchronously. So, I say something when I want, whether it's voice, pictures, text, doesn't matter. And you receive it when you want and responding, 'Hi.' Now that could be using WhatsApp or Slack or even email, but truly treating it as an asynchronous means of communication." "And to do that [documenting systems and processes] is not to devalue the person who was holding on to them, it is to release them to be replaced up, not out of business." Resources: How to do things better? Get your FREE resource at less.do/facebook Connect with Ari Meisel: Website: https://lessdoing.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lessdoing/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/arimeisel/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/productivity-coach-entrepreneur/
