Onboarding New Team Members
On the debut of my brand-new show, I’ll talk to you about how you can make incremental progress in your onboarding of your team members – you’re doing it wrong. But that’s okay. I’m here to help.
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Trying to Have it All Leaves You With Nothing
The biggest threat to any business is the owner of that business. As entrepreneurs, we’ve already decided to tackle one of the most challenging things anyone could possibly do: build a business. For one reason or another, we’ve committed ourselves to take on accountability when so many people spend their lives desperately trying to avoid […]
The Immortality of Authenticity
There are tons of people out there struggling to build a life they don’t really want. It’s especially endemic in the world of entrepreneurship. Guys like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are idolized and emulated because starting your own business is the “cool” thing to do. I think it’s fair to say not many people […]
Chromatic Masterminds
There are few things as satisfying as being in a mastermind with your business. Why is that? Put simply, it means everything becomes automatic. When you and your team are in sync, working towards a common purpose to serve your clients, with work automatically being distributed according to proven principles of human behavior, growth becomes […]
The Death of the Specialist
Have you ever noticed how easy it is to find horror stories by freelancers about working with nightmare clients… but it’s much harder to find business owner horror stories about freelancers? It’s not as though they don’t exist. I’ve heard my share of them. In fact, one of the reasons that Measurable Genius exists is […]
Do What You Love or Love What You Do
How much money are you wasting by avoiding hiring? Are you throwing away time doing tasks that don’t return much per hour, in terms of dollars, when you could delegate them to someone else? Are you sapping your energy doing things you don’t want to do because no one else has been given that accountability? […]
The Myth of More Work
There’s a finite limit to the amount of work you can get done in a day. But it never quite seems to be enough, right? No matter how much you accomplish, there’s this nagging voice in the back of your mind that’s never satisfied. “You’re never going to grow this business if you don’t work […]
Organizing Roles
Clearly understanding and managing according to accountability and responsibility is critical for the success of your organization. Your organizational chart should represent the roles that are functionally necessary and individuals may be assigned many roles. Those roles represent nothing more than a process inventory that an individual employee is accountable and/or responsible for.
The Polymath
Every system in a business is a pipe. You’ve got your sales pipe, your marketing pipe, your operations pipe, and so on. Each pipe is responsible for taking the effort of the people who do the work in that system and turning it into a result (the result depends on the pipe, naturally). Let’s say […]
The Most Constrained System
There can only be one. At any given time, there is only one most important thing that you should be working on to produce the highest return on investment in your business and your life. Do you know what it is?