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The Owner’s Metric
The One Number You Need To Be Truly Free
While you can’t buy happiness, you can buy personal freedom. Personal freedom comes from having enough wealth set aside that your work becomes a choice, not an obligation.
The fastest way to build this kind of wealth, or to build the ultimate lifestyle business, is to focus on and even obsess over the Owner’s Metric.
Master the Owner’s Metric: The One Number to True Freedom
8 Ways to Re-Invent Yourself In A Crisis
How to Emerge From a Crisis With a More Durable, Valuable Company
Veterans refer to “the fog of war” to describe how difficult decision-making can be when you’re on the battlefield with imperfect information
Sometimes the obvious answer in retrospect is not so apparent when you’re in the throes of a crisis. We wanted to share the stories of eight owners who took bold and decisive action at a time of deep economic uncertainty.
The Freedom Point
A Financial Planning Guide for Business Owners
As business owners, you typically face two difficult choices: when to sell your business and at what price. Selling your business may seem far off into the future, but if exiting your business now would give you the financial resources to do whatever you want, it may be worth considering sooner than feels natural.
This eBook offers a simple methodology you can apply to reach financial independence – what we call The Freedom Point. You may be closer to a carefree life than you think
How to Productize Your Service in 8 Simple Steps
Have you ever wondered how to make a business less reliant on its owner?
You know the only way to create a valuable company is to ensure it runs without the owner, but when the founder is the key to delivering a quality product or service, it’s hard to make any progress.
The answer is to “productize” the service.
This is the process of breaking down the service into a series of steps and packing it like a tangible offering.
We’ve developed an 8-step approach to helping you productize your service.
The Definitive Guide to Standard Operating Procedures
How to Emerge From a Crisis With a More Durable, Valuable Company
Why did you start your business? Was it because you had an idea? Were you striving to become rich? Or was it out of necessity?
While these are all common inspirations for starting a business, most people choose entrepreneurship because they want the freedom to decide what to do with their time and energy.
If freedom is your goal, SOPs are essential.
The Exit Checklist
A 5-Step Personal Action Plan for a Happy (And Lucrative) Exit From Your Business
As an owner, you’re ready for almost anything. But recent data shows that even the most affluent and successful founders struggle with one common problem: the regret of how they handled leaving their company.
Are you personally ready for what should be the happiest day of your life?
You’ll Discover the Five Steps Needed to Answer the Question, “Are You Ready to Exit?”
The Four Degrees of Delegation
As a business owner, your instinct may be to oversee every detail of your company. While this has led to your success, fighting fires and answering mundane questions creates a bottleneck. The hallmark of a valuable company is one that can thrive without you.
How do you get there?
Master the art of delegation.
The Overlooked Owner
A Key Factor in Determining Business Value
In a study of 1,511 companies, we found one factor commonly omitted when assessing the value of a company – the owner. Our research suggests that the owner’s reasons for exit and the steps they take to prepare for an exit can play a significant role in the value of a company.
The Rainmaker’s Dilemma
n a study of 23,158 companies, we found 40% of business owners have one thing in common. They are Rainmakers – the primary revenue driver for their company. Rainmakers are exceptional at rapidly accelerating business growth, but our data suggests they eventually hit a ceiling. Revenue stagnates and business value plateaus, forcing owners to confront the Rainmaker’s Dilemma.
The solution? Become an Architect.