The Clockwork Book Club
Welcome to The Clockwork Book Club! Join us as Adrienne Dorison and Emily Doyle (The CEO/Founder and President of Run Like Clockwork) take you through each chapter of the book Clockwork, Revised and Expanded: Design Your Business to Run Itself. Written by Mike Michalowicz, the book is your recipe for an ultra-efficient business, and this podcast will provide even more insights and lessons on how you can apply these frameworks. So read along with us and learn how to make your business finally work for you.
Episodes
Welcome to our breakdown of Chapter 9 of Clockwork, Revised and Expanded: Design Your Business to Run Itself.
In this episode, we discuss:
- How to complete a Job Trait Analysis
- Hiring for strengths instead of skills
- Using Clockwork as a retention tool on your team
We suggest that you read the chapter and then come listen to this episode covering pages 149-171.
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Welcome to our breakdown of the Introduction and Chapter 1 of Clockwork, Revised and Expanded: Design Your Business to Run Itself.
In this episode, we discuss:
- your #1 job as an entrepreneur
- productivity vs. efficiency
- growing vs. scaling
We suggest that you read the chapter and then come listen to this episode covering pages xvii - 24.
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Welcome to our breakdown of Chapter 2 of Clockwork, Revised and Expanded: Design Your Business to Run Itself.
In this episode, we discuss:
How to do less to achieve more
The value in narrowing your niche.
Completing the Crush/Cringe Analysis
We suggest that you read the chapter and then come listen to this episode covering pages 25-40.
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Welcome to our breakdown of Chapter 3 of Clockwork, Revised and Expanded: Design Your Business to Run Itself.
In this episode, we discuss:
Why you need to protect your reputation above all.
Declaring your Big BANG
How to find your Big Promise
We suggest that you read the chapter and then come listen to this episode covering pages 41-53.
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Welcome to our breakdown of Chapter 4 of Clockwork, Revised and Expanded: Design Your Business to Run Itself.
In this episode, we discuss:
The story behind why it’s called the QBR
Why we love the Savannah Bananas
How the QBR relates to the Big Promise
We suggest that you read the chapter and then come listen to this episode covering pages 54-70.
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Welcome to our breakdown of Chapter 5 of Clockwork, Revised and Expanded: Design Your Business to Run Itself.
In this episode, we discuss:
Differences between the QBR and Primary Roles
Directly vs. Indirectly serving the QBR
Completing the sticky note exercise
We suggest that you read the chapter and then come listen to this episode covering pages 71-84.
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Welcome to our breakdown of Chapter 6 of Clockwork, Revised and Expanded: Design Your Business to Run Itself.
In this episode, we discuss:
Why this is a throttle, not a switch
Deciding vs. Delegating
The Design Trap
We suggest that you read the chapter and then come listen to this episode covering pages 85-115.
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Welcome to our breakdown of Chapter 7 of Clockwork, Revised and Expanded: Design Your Business to Run Itself.
In this episode, we discuss:
- our top tips and takeaways to avoid the sunk cost fallacy
- how to complete the 4T exercise
- why you really don't want to clone yourself.
We suggest that you read the chapter and then come listen to this episode covering pages 116-127.
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Welcome to our breakdown of Chapter 8 of Clockwork, Revised and Expanded: Design Your Business to Run Itself.
In this episode, we discuss:
- How to get systems out of your head
- Why we don’t believe in written SOPs
- The value of continuous improvement
We suggest that you read the chapter and then come listen to this episode covering pages 128-148.
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Welcome to our breakdown of Chapter 10 of Clockwork, Revised and Expanded: Design Your Business to Run Itself.
In this episode, we discuss:
- How key metrics help you determine the health of your business
- What to feature on a high-level dashboard
- The ACDC bottleneck framework
We suggest that you read the chapter and then come listen to this episode covering pages 172-199.
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Welcome to our breakdown of Chapter 11 of Clockwork, Revised and Expanded: Design Your Business to Run Itself.
In this episode, we discuss:
- How key metrics help you determine the health of your business
- What to feature on a high-level dashboard
- The ACDC bottleneck framework
We suggest that you read the chapter and then come listen to this episode covering pages 200-226.
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Welcome to our breakdown of Chapter 12 of Clockwork, Revised and Expanded: Design Your Business to Run Itself.
In this episode, we discuss our takes on Roberto’s story!
We suggest that you read the chapter and then come listen to this episode covering pages 227-236.
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Welcome to our breakdown of Chapter 13 of Clockwork, Revised and Expanded: Design Your Business to Run Itself.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Why we encounter pushback
- How Design can be just as taxing as Doing work
- Why you need to show up more when building trust
We suggest that you read the chapter and then come listen to this episode covering pages 237-250.
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This is our final episode in the Clockwork Book Club, and today we are talking to the Author of “Clockwork, Revised and Expanded: Design Your Business to Run Itself”… Mike Michalowicz!
In this episode, we discuss:
What Mike wishes everyone knew about Clockwork
The biggest updates to the system since the first edition of the book
Why people resist the Four-Week vacation, and how to combat that!
Every time we talk t...
Welcome to The Clockwork Book Club!
After 6+ years and two iterations of the book, we thought we were way past due to bring a book club to the podcast!
Over these 14 episodes, we're diving into each chapter of the book, breaking down our biggest takeaways, and sharing more insights from behind the scenes of Clockworking.
Here's how we recommend following along:
- Find an accountability group
- Read along with us chapter...
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