Therapy For Your Money

Episode 1: Want to Work Less and Make More? (with Adrienne Dorison)

Julie Herres Season 1 Episode 1

What’s the bottleneck in your business? It’s time to work less and make more by designing your business to Run Like Clockwork.

Today’s guest is Adrienne Dorison, co-founder of Run Like Clockwork. Mike Michalowicz wrote the book, Clockwork, and Adrienne runs the company.   

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Episode Highlights:

  • Operational Efficiency: Take corporate principles, apply them to small business owners
  • Systemization: Small business owners need to get out of their own way, give up control
  • Why design a business to run itself? Don’t make business dependent on business owner
  • Reasons: Never know what may happen; take care of you, your family, clients, and team
  • Time for Money: What is something only you can do? What is something you love to do? What is the vision for your company? 
  • Clockworking: Increase profit, grow business via free time to spend on valuable tasks 
  • Captain Vision: Stay on the deck, lead and guide the ship on what to do next
  • ACDC Method: Identify and solve bottleneck problems; opportunities for progress
    • Attract more leads to reach revenue goals
    • Convert leads at average or above average conversion rate
    • Deliver capacity and time for more of what you do
    • Collect money and maintain cash flow
  • Too Small for Clockwork? Sooner you understand how to remove things, focus on others
  • 3T Framework: Trash and trim things to spend time in more valuable places  

Links and Resources:

Run Like Clockwork

Clockwork: Design Your Business to Run Itself by Mike Michalowicz

Run Like Clockwork Accelerator

Run Like Clockwork Podcast

Profit First by Mike Michalowicz

Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown 

GreenOak Accounting

Therapy For Your Money Podcast