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

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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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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...

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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...

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Clockwork

Clockwork: Design Your Business to Run Itself If you’re like most entrepreneurs, you started your business so you could be your own boss, make the money you deserve, and live life on your own terms. In reality, you’re bogged down in the daily grind, constantly putting out fires, answering...

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