086 – The Language of Working ON Your Business
This was the absolute game changer for me.
It is THE central idea of a self-managed business. If you don’t understand this principle, you will never have a self-managed business.
Simple definition: Working in your business is the order fulfillment part, and everything that must be done to get the orders out.
Working On your business is the work of creating the systems that make the Order fulfillment work better.
Working on the business is slowing down to think about all of the work and how to do it better, rather than working harder and harder to get it all done.
Working ON…
…is taking all of your vision, all of your systems, and all of your innovations and integrating them into a beautiful masterpiece – called your work.
Get excited about the results of working On your business
Use the amazing gift of your Imagination:
- What would it look like if I didn’t have to come to the office first thing?
- What if most of the Key Frustrations of doing your work went away?
- What if you could delegate confidently all of the parts of the business that you don’t do well, or like
- What if most of your work was done with zero defects?
The Language of Working On:
- Don’t Micromanage your people, Micromanage the systems creation process
- Leverage your ordinary people with extraordinary systems
- Can we create a checklist for that?
- How can this work be described as a step-by-step process?
- How can I get this work out of my head, and documented on paper?
- How can I standardize this work and make it simpler?
- How can I make this work easy and elegant?
- How can I eliminate this frustration – and make it a joy?
- How can we eliminate waste from this work: Waste of time, steps in the process, physical walking steps, waste of supplies and materials, Waste of All kinds?
- How can this work be completed without me doing the work?
