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Lesson 4: SYSTEMS and Strategy

Lesson 4: SYSTEMS and Strategy

SYSTEMS?

  • Systems are one of the most important aspects of your business.
  • Systems are a series of specific and explained processes showing how to carry out a task in detail

WHY ?

Systems are important for:

  • Creating consistency
  • Increasing your business's value
  • Improving quality of work
  • Increasing efficiency

RULES

  1. Always give consistent value to your customers and partners
  2. The system should be able to be operated by low skilled workers
  3. Order is required in all aspects
  4. Document using an Operations manual
  5. Provide predicable service to customers
  6. Use colour schemes specific to your business

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The Entrepreneur

The Entrepreneur

  • The Entrepreneur is always thinking forward and about the future.
  • This personality is the part of us that is constantly making strategies, innovating, thinking creatively, looking for opportunities (and occasionally wrecking havoc).
  • This also comes with the...

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Lesson 3: The three personalities

Lesson 3: The three personalities

Every person who goes into business is made up of three different people

These are

  1. The Technician,
  2. The Manager, and
  3. The Entrepreneur.
  • Each o...

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MARCUS AURELIUS

"Frightened of change? But what can exist without it? What's closer to nature's heart? Can you take a hot bath and leave the firewood as it was? Eat food without transforming it? Can any vital process take place without something being changed?"

MARCUS AURELIUS

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The Manager

The Manager

  • The Manager is the planner/ organiser. Always creating order and living in the past. Where the Entrepreneur sees opportunity and possibilities, the Manager sees the problems that will invariably occur.
  • Constantly chasing the ...

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MICHAEL E. GERBER

"If your business depends on you, you don't own a business-you have a job. And it's the worst job in the world because you're working for a lunatic!

MICHAEL E. GERBER

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Lesson 1: Change

Lesson 1: Change

  • Change in business (and life) is essential for growth. Everything changes
  • Without understanding the importance of change you won't be able to alter the things in your business that aren't working and require change to flourish
  • Change in any ...

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Lesson 2: THINK DIFFERENTLY

Lesson 2: THINK DIFFERENTLY

  • Most small businesses fail because they believe that if they understand the technical work of a business then they understand a business that does technical work (e.g. just because you are a good carpenter, doesn't mean you understand how to start a carpentr...

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The Technician

The Technician

  • The Technician is the doer. Loving the hands-on work within the business
  • Not caring about thinking or ideas or multitasking, the Technician just wants to tinker and work, always living in the present
  • The Technician believes t...

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"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane" -Marcus Aurelius

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