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FUCK YOU PAY ME

FUCK YOU PAY ME

Every day we’re faced with choices. And the best way to make those choices is to find out the story you want to tell about your life. If you know that, then all you have to do is to make the choice that aligns most closely to the story you want to tell. It’s that […]
Alexander Ford
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The Polymath

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 […]
Alexander Ford
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Account for Value

Account for Value

You need to know the difference between accountability and responsibility in order to successfully scale up an organization. Some people mash all these words together thinking they mean the same thing. People need clear lines to know how to do their jobs.
Alexander Ford
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Future Accounting

Future Accounting

Your goals in life won’t come true unless you’re accountable to them in advance. See … that future you say you want? You’re disowning it. It’s a trick. Just by your nature of wanting it, you’re acknowledging that you don’t have ownership of it. You haven’t found evidence of it. You don’t see where you […]
Alexander Ford
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Becoming Jordan Peterson

Becoming Jordan Peterson

Don’t be a business owner trying to take accountability and ownership of other people’s stuff … their problems; causes; tirades. Put your own room in order first. Don’t go out into the world and assume ownership of other people’s stuff. When you martyr yourself on these causes you clearly can’t make a difference on, you […]
Alexander Ford
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Do What You Love and Delegate the Rest

Do What You Love and Delegate the Rest

How much money are you wasting by not paying someone a salary? Are you throwing away time doing tasks that don’t return much per hour, financially speaking, 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 […]
Alexander Ford
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Organizing Roles

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.
Alexander Ford
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Middle Management

Middle Management

Middle management is one of the most challenging roles to play in any organization. It’s easy to be a business owner. You just need to be accountable. It’s also easy to be an employee. You just need to be responsible. It’s hard to be both. That’s what makes middle management special. They have a gift […]
Alexander Ford
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No Owners Wanted

No Owners Wanted

Most people hate being accountable. It sucks having to be accountable to something especially if you aren’t totally inspired about it. True wisdom is reflected in selecting only the accountabilities that are congruent and certain to move your mission forward for yourself and delegating the rest. To me, for example. I’d love to help.
Alexander Ford
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