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Clockwork Quick Start Guide

This quick start guide outlines how to make a business autonomous through a 7 step process. The steps include 1) analyzing employee time usage, 2) declaring a "Queen Bee Role" that the business must focus on, 3) positioning the business to serve and protect that role, 4) capturing systems to document processes, 5) balancing the team's skills, 6) directing the offering to the right customers, and 7) declaring a 4 week vacation for the owner to test the business's independence. Following this process results in a "clockwork business" that can run without depending on the owner.

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Clockwork Quick Start Guide

This quick start guide outlines how to make a business autonomous through a 7 step process. The steps include 1) analyzing employee time usage, 2) declaring a "Queen Bee Role" that the business must focus on, 3) positioning the business to serve and protect that role, 4) capturing systems to document processes, 5) balancing the team's skills, 6) directing the offering to the right customers, and 7) declaring a 4 week vacation for the owner to test the business's independence. Following this process results in a "clockwork business" that can run without depending on the owner.

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  • Quick Start Guide Overview

CLOCKWORK

This Quick Start Guide outlines the simple process


to make an autonomous business a reality, giving
the entrepreneur the freedom to what they want,
when the want in both their life and their work.

QUICK•START•GUIDE
For the full indepth process please refer to the book,
Clockwork by Mike Michalowicz.

#1 Analyze Your Company’s Time #5 Balance Your Team


❍ Conduct Time Analysis ❍ Match strongest team member
for each employee. traits to tasks that need it most.
❍ Categorize work type ❍ Find additional/new right people
for each analysis. when necessary.
❍ Calculate current 4D mix. ❍ Constantly seek and resolve new
❍ Allocate minimally, 1% of the bottlenecks in the ACDC model.
entrepreneurs time to DESIGN
work, every week. Direct Your Offering
#6 To A Community
Declare Your Company’s
#2 Queen Bee Role
❍ Identify the customer base
who is best served by your QBR
❍ Identify what makes your business (remember to align with your QBR,
distinct from the competition instead of pivoting alone).
(this is your “brand promise”). ❍ Constantly amplify and improve
❍ Identify the most important DOING your “brand promise”, which is
action that your company must do served by your QBR.
to support that business distinction.

#7
Declare it as your QBR. Declare The 4 Week Vacation
❍ Remove owner(s) from business to
Position Your Company to
#3 Protect and Serve the QBR
break dependency of the business
on the owners.

❍ Educate your team on the QBR. ❍ Use smaller vacations throughout


your year to test + improve along the
❍ Clearly identify the individuals and/or way to your ultimate 4 week vacation.
resources serving the company QBR.
❍ Analyze and resolve failure points.
❍ Trash/Transfer/Trim to alleviate Test again with subsequent
distraction from QBR, and move work 4 week vacations.
to appropriate skill levels.
❍ You’ve achieved a
CLOCKWORK BUSINESS!
Capture Systems and
#4 Apply The Trash/Transfer/
Trim Method
❍ Use capture processes to
collect all company systems. For more info, Visit
[Link]
❍ Use recording tools to capture
work as it is done.

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