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 – Design Your Business To Run Itself with best-selling author, Mike Michalowicz

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Hosted by HerBusiness

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22 August 2019

Imagine a business that runs itself.

Isn’t that just the ant’s pants, the ideal scene, the highly-coveted dream for so many business owners?
But, is it doable?

Our guest today knows, for sure, that it is.

But every day HerBusiness is working with women business owners who carry their entire business on their backs.

They’re doing everything themselves, and some are getting very little sleep.

They are trapped by their business.

If this sounds like you…

Imagine being able to take a 4-week vacation from your business – no contact at all – and coming back to everything running smoothly. 

Sounds impossible? It isn’t. In fact, it could be possible in just 18 months.

In this podcast episode, you’re going to hear how to gradually design your business to run itself.

Our guest is Mike Michalowicz, the author of best-selling books like Profit First, Surge, The Pumpkin Plan.

His newest release is Clockwork – Design a Business to Run Itself.

In this episode we look at:

  • Why you should be the super VISIONARY of your business, rather than the superhero
  • How having to make all the decisions STUNTS your business growth
  • What is the ‘Four D mix’ and how to use it in your business
  • Why you must SUPPORT your employees’ decisions, even the bad decisions
  • How to define, PROTECT and serve your business’s ‘Queen Bee Role’
  • What is a ‘Clockwork business’ that runs itself?
  • How the AC/DC model helps you IDENTIFY WEAK LINKS in your business
  • What allows your team to REVEAL HIDDEN TALENTS

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About the host

Suzi Dafnis

Hi there. I’m Suzi Dafnis, CEO at HerBusiness. My BIG passion is helping women business owners to grow and scale their business, so that they can create their ideal lifestyle and make a difference in the world. Every day I am inspired by the more than 30,000 amazing women (and men!) in our community and I love finding the best education, mentors, and resources from around the globe, to help them get the skills, knowledge, and support they need to succeed. It’s been my privilege to lead HerBusiness (formerly The Australian Businesswomen’s Network) for the past 23 years (two+ decades – WOW!) because, whilst I’ve enjoyed success in business, I’ve also experienced the highs and the lows – sometimes you can feel on top of the world and in control and other times you can feel isolated, exhausted and stuck. What has made the biggest difference for me has always been having great people around me and having a lifelong commitment to learning. That’s why I am so passionate about the work we do here at HerBusiness – providing a Connection Network for women in business to get the mentors, contacts, referrals, knowledge, and skills they need to grow their confidence, make more money, build their businesses, expand their network and create the lives they love. My entrepreneurial journey started in the spare room of my Sydney apartment in 1994 when my business partner and I started a boutique events company that represented speakers and authors from the USA, here in Australia. Over the years I’ve grown multiple multi-million dollar businesses in the events, publishing and education niches – with teams in Australia, New Zealand, and the USA. Not everything has worked and there has been a degree of trial and error, and a lot of bumps in the road. But I have always had a strong commitment to always surrounding myself with great mentors and like-minded peers – a Connection Network that I can depend on and who can depend on me to be there for them too. I truly do what I love, every day.  

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Mike Michalowicz

Mike Michalowicz

Mike Michalowicz is the entrepreneur behind three multi-million dollar companies and is the author of Profit First, The Pumpkin Plan and what BusinessWeek deemed the entrepreneur’s cult classic, The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur. Mike is a former small business columnist for The Wall Street Journal and the former business makeover specialist on MSNBC. Today, Mike travels the world as entrepreneurial advocate speaking to groups just like ours. He is globally recognised as the guy who “challenges out dated business beliefs” and teaches us what to do about it.  

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