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"...take your business to the next step. That higher step is to have your business make money without you. If it can, you own a business. If it cannot, you own a job." - Forbes Article by Henry DeVries
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"The difference between where you are today and where you'll be in five years from now will be found in the quality of books you read." - Jim Rohn
An "Owner-Independent Business" is the ultimate result that I want you to get from a relationship with CompanyAxis and myself. An owner-independent business can run without your physical presence. It's a business that requires very little of your time. It was I believe, Michael Gerber, author of 'The E-Myth' series of publications and named 'The World's Number One Small Business Guru,' by Inc. magazine who first published the phrase; "Work ON your business, NOT in it."
Books on how to turn a small business into one that largely runs itself.
Books on how to turn a small business into one that largely runs itself.
My Top Ten List
My Top Ten List
Here are my first three choices - ranked by practical, step-by-step system focus (with the most practical first):
Clockwork
Clockwork
Mike Micalowicz
Clockwork gives a hands-on process for making your business run without you by identifying your company's "Queen Bee Role" (the most important function that keeps the business alive), mapping and simplifying all core processes, and then using the 4Ds (Delete, Delegate, Document, and Design) to reduce owner dependence. It provides concrete exercises (time audits, process maps, delegation templates) and a staged implementation plan so you can systematically offload tasks, test autonomy, and measure whether the business continues to perform as responsibilities shift away from you.
Traction (EOS)
Traction (EOS)
Gino Wickman
Traction delivers a structured operating system with a clear set of tools: the Vision/Traction Organizer to align leadership on goals, the Level 10 Meeting agenda to create regular disciplined team rhythms, the Accountability Chart to define roles and ownership, and Scorecards/rocks to track metrics and quarterly priorities. Each tool comes with step-by-step instructions for roll out and meeting cadence, making it practical for small leadership teams to install predictable processes, fix people/priority/issue problems, and create repeatable management habits that keep the business running smoothly without adhoc firefighting.
Work the System
Work the System
Sam Carpenter
Work the system emphasizes viewing your company as a collection of systems and mandates documenting each procedure in a clear, simple format so anyone can execute it consistently. Carpenter prescribes an operational hierarchy (systems, subsystems, procedures), regular review and optimization cycles, and a disciplined approach to reduce reliance on tribal knowledge. The book walks you through how to map systems, write effective procedure documents, create control points, and instill a system-first culture with practical steps that turn tacit work into reproducible processes that enable a business to function reliably in the owner's absence.
These 7 additional books complete my Top Ten List on the subject of 'turning a small business into one that largely runs itself.'
Built to Sell - John Warrillow shows how to structure services/Products and processes so the is both scalable and sellable.
The E-Myth Revisited - Michael E. Gerber focuses on systemizing businesses so owners work on the business not in it.
Scaling Up - Verne Harnish explains operational tools for people, strategy, execution, and cash to scale predictably.
The Automatic Customer - John Warrillow explains subscription models that create predictable, recurring revenue.
Company of One - Paul Jarvis argues for profitable businesses that stay intentionally small but run efficiently and autonomously.
The 4-Hour Workweek - Tim Ferris on mindset and tactics for outsourcing, automation, and designing a lifestyle business (more tactical/controversial but useful ideas).
Built to Last - Jim Collins & Jerry Porras provide a broader look at companies designed to endure; useful for building lasting systems and culture.
More favorites and relevant resources...
More favorites and relevant resources...
"What will help you break into the seven figures is to expand your capacity beyond what one person can do. The only ways to do that, without hiring employees, are by hiring contractors to help you, outsourcing, and automating some of your work." - by Elaine Pofeldt, Author of 'The Million-Dollar, One-Person Business, Revised.'
'The Million-Dollar, One-Person Business, Revised: Make Great Money. Work the Way You Like. Have the Life You Want.' by Elaine Pofeldt. Get the Kindle Edition directly from Amazon.
The Author, Elaine Pofeldt, is an independent journalist who specializes in small business, entrepreneurship and careers. In this book she helps you to take a look at how entrepreneurs are hitting seven-figure revenue in businesses where they are the only employees.
As a senior editor at FORTUNE Small Business, where she worked for eight years, she won various awards and ran the magazine's annual business plan competition. During her time at FSB, she ran the magazine's website, fsb.com for four years - building it's traffic up to five million page views a month.
AMAZON DESCRIPTION: "Join the record number of people who have ended their dependence on traditional employment and embraced entrepreneurship as the ultimate way to control their futures. Determine when, where, and how much you work, and by what values. With up-to-date advice and more real-life success stories, this revised edition of The Million-Dollar, One-Person Business shows the latest strategies you can apply from everyday people who--on their own--are bringing in $1 million a year to live exactly how they want."
New Release: Another great book from Elaine Pofeldt and a perfect follow up to her book listed above. Published (and available on Amazon and Audible) February 15th, 2022 - I listened to the Audiobook version February 27th and bought the Kindle Edition from Amazon March 4th '22. I highly recommend it to you.
I consume most books by listening to the Audible version and then if I want to look deeper I'll get the Kindle version for my virtual library. Ms Pofeldt's journalistic style of writing makes the book a great reference work for anyone truly interested in building a Microbusiness today.
What I enjoyed most as I listened to the audio version was the feeling that what she chose to reveal from her interviews with other MicroBusiness owners - validates most if not everything I wrote in this website in 2020.
A key observation she makes is; "...the world of entrepreneurship rewards action over contemplation." If you're anything like me and already own a MicroBusiness but want to fine tune it to work even better, then for you - this book is a must read!
Who Not How: The Formula to Achieve Bigger Goals Through Accelerating Teamwork
This book will teach you how to make this essential paradigm-shift so you can:
* Build a successful business effectively while not killing yourself
* Immediately free-up 1,000+ hours of work that you shouldn't be doing anyway
* Bypass the typical scarcity and decline of aging and other societal norms
* Increase your vision in all areas of life and build teams of WHOs to support you in that vision
* Never be limited in your goals and ambitions again
* Expand your abundance of wealth, innovation, relationships, and joy
* Build a life where everything you do is your choice--how you spend your time, how much money you make, the quality of your relationships, and the type of work you do
Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building - March 7, 2023
Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building - March 7, 2023
I bought the Hardcover Version of this book February 6, 2024 and keep it by my desk so I can refer to it regularly.
"Scaling People is a practical and empathetic guide to being an effective leader and manager in a high-growth environment. The tactical information it puts forward—including guidance on crafting foundational documents, strategic and financial planning, hiring and team development, and feedback and performance mechanisms—can be applied to companies of any size, in any industry. Scaling People includes dozens of pages of worksheets, templates, exercises, and example documents to help founders, leaders, and company builders create scalable operating systems and lightweight processes that really work.
Implementing effective leadership and management practices takes effort and discipline, but the reward is a sustainable, scalable company that’s set up for long-term success. Scaling People is a detailed roadmap for company builders to put the right operating systems and structures in place to scale the most important resource a company has: its people." - Amazon
Beyond the E-Myth: The Evolution of an Enterprise: From a Company of One to a Company of 1,000!
by Michael E. Gerber
First published in 2016, I didn't get the hardcover edition until it arrived by postal carrier two days ago on January 10, 2023. I had ordered it right after listening to the audio version narrated by Michael Gerber himself - a week earlier. When the book arrived, I eagerly opened the box and then as I like to do, opened the book to a random page. It was the title page to Chapter 16: DOING BUSINESS vs OWNING A BUSINESS. "A Business is an aggregate of up to seven turnkey Practices, plus a turnkey Management System!"
This book is now...
Required Reading
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We Facilitate The Creation Of Your Own Business Playbook
We Facilitate The Creation Of Your Own Business Playbook
You need a playbook...
This book, THE BUSINESS PLAYBOOK, can help you understand how to...
'Document and Delegate What You Do So Your Company Can Grow Beyond You.'
If you want to build a company that doesn’t rely on you putting in more hours, this book will show you the way.
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"In order to change, people need a process - a design process - to help them figure out what they want and how to create it."
Designing Your Life
Designing Your Life
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • At last, a book that shows you how to build—design—a life you can thrive in, at any age or stage • “Life has questions. They have answers.” —The New York Times
"In this book, Bill Burnett and Dave Evans show us how design thinking can help us create a life that is both meaningful and fulfilling, regardless of who or where we are, what we do or have done for a living, or how young or old we are. The same design thinking responsible for amazing technology, products, and spaces can be used to design and build your career and your life, a life of fulfillment and joy, constantly creative and productive, one that always holds the possibility of surprise." - Amazon
Holistic, practical and appropriate for your entire life not just your business life.
Get the Companion Workbook too. "Whether you’re a recent graduate, mid-career, or contemplating your encore life or retirement - and whether it’s time to make that big move or you’re just interested in making your current situation a little bit better - The Designing Your Life Workbook is your dynamic roadmap to building a joyful, fulfilling life that always holds the possibility of surprise." - Amazon
Be sure to add Designing Your Work Life to your purchase.
"From the authors of the #1 New York Times bestseller Designing Your Life comes a revised, fully up-to-date edition of Designing Your New Work Life, a timely, urgently needed book that shows us how to transform our new uncharted work life into a meaningful dream job or company. With practical, useful tools, tips, and design ideas that show us how to navigate disruption (global, regional, or personal) and create new possibilities for our post-COVID work world and beyond." - Amazon
The burning question is...
The burning question is...
How Can YOU Create A Vehicle That Doesn't Consume All Your Time To Generate Cash Flow?
Build Your Own Custom Apps
Build Your Own Custom Apps
"Every company that serves consumers needs a great app that offers their core services on their customer's mobile phones. If they don't, their competitors will." - The Mobile Wave by Michael Saylor, CEO of MicroStrategy, Inc.
Build Your Own Proprietary Database
Build Your Own Proprietary Database
The Comprehensive Guide to Building Custom Databases 2nd ed. by Mark Conway Munro
You Need A Back-End System to Automate Critical Business Processes
Small and midsize business owners need both a front-end web presence and a premium back-end solution to fully automate business processes via the internet. My objective is to provide a system that's both easy to use and increases data security for each client while improving your online marketing reach and effectiveness. Our maWebCenters® Team at Market America, Inc. designs and hosts the front-end website and blog while we connect an easy to customize - database solution serving as the back-end for your own Virtual Private Network (VPN) that we activate for you.
Monitor, Measure, Adjust and Control: For the 'back-end,' we install a 'turnkey' CompanyAxis database on the Claris FileMaker® (an Apple Subsidiary) platform to automate tasks and processes for your firm's internal business operations. It works on your mobile devices, computers at your physical locations, the web, and in the cloud. You can control it yourself - to do exactly what your business needs.
The Move To Workflow Automation In The Workplace
The Move To Workflow Automation In The Workplace
Technology-enabled spaces in the Workplace
Technology-enabled spaces in the Workplace
Workflow automation saves time and boosts efficiency. "Automation technology can make our transition to the 'new normal' a bit easier and increase the effectiveness of your COVID-19 workplace re-entry plan by automating..." - Automated Systems Design, Inc. is a nationwide provider of design, engineering and project management for workplace technologies. High-value solutions like workflow automation and document management can be acquired with surprising ease.
Workplace automation can improve almost any business process, but some of the most direct benefits to your bottom line happen when you automate your marketing. If you or your sales team are spending too much time on repetitive tasks, like manually sending emails to leads or creating follow-up activities one by one, it's a sure sign that it's time to automate.
Intelligent Automation: Combining RPA and Ai Can Digitally Transform Your Organization
Intelligent Automation: Combining RPA and Ai Can Digitally Transform Your Organization
The convergence of AI and Robotics is happening!
The Ai Accelerator: How to 10X Your Productivity, Clone Your Smartest Employees, and Monetize Your IP in the New Ai-Economy.
Clone yourself and your smartest employees so you’re never owner or key-person dependent again.
Amazon Books - Kindle
What is Google Workspace?
What is Google Workspace?
Google Workspace is a cloud-based productivity suite that helps teams communicate, collaborate and get things done from anywhere and on any device. It's simple to set up, use and manage, so your business can focus on what really matters. Watch a video or find out more here.
Workspace
CompanyAxis.net is our 'Extranet' in the Google Cloud.This website was created within our Google 'Workspace' account.Google's Workspace includes Gmail, Docs, Drive, Calendar, Meet and more. Workspace
Here are some highlights:
Business email for your domain. Look professional and communicate as you@yourcompany.com. Gmail's simple featureshelp you build your brand while getting more done.
Access from any location or device. Check emails, share files, edit documents, hold video meetings and more, whether you're at work, at home or on the move. You can pick up where you left off from a computer, tablet or phone.
Enterprise-level management tools. Robust admin settings give you total command over users, devices, security and more.
Sign up using my affiliate link; 'Google Workspace' and get a 14-day trial, and message me to get an exclusive discount when you try Google workspace for your business.
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Dear friend,
Are you still wondering if Ai can can really help you in your business? I believe it can no matter what industry you're in and I'm not the only one. Rick Mulready says; "Streamline your business. Ai enables you to work fewer hours and increase profit because things are getting done more quickly and at a lower cost." Rick is someone who has already put Ai to work in his own business and he'll show you how to use it to free up time in your work day. I recommend his work because I sincerely believe that the information he provides - will be as valuable to you as it has been for me.
My purpose here is to equip you to completely escape the 'self-employment trap' by showing you how one can design a business to run itself. While important, your personal productivity is NOT the key to your business success but EFFICIENCY is. It's the productivity of the people using your systems that turns your business into a self-managing company. You can minimize your busy work while increasing your annual recurring revenue with CompanyAxis Systems.
If you have a professional practice or a job you enjoy, you can - without quitting your day job - launch a 'home-based side gig' that'll make money for you without you having to show up to perform a task! Collaborate with me and together, we'll execute a plan with 'Advanced Ai Automation' to generate 'additional income' for you without consuming more of your time.
Imagine how it feels to wake up every morning knowing that you've already made the money you need.
"Work Less, Earn More, Enjoy Life!"
- Jim Davis
Utica Industries LLC
Website: jd.CompanyAxis.net
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Disclosure: The CompanyAxis Network is a Utica Industries 'Extranet' running in the Google Cloud from which Jim Davis sponsors a team that can help you turn an online business into a self-managing company. "In addition to providing information of value, my intention here is to feature products and services that I either use personally or have tested and think you'll find useful. If you purchase them, I may receive a small share of the revenue from your purchase via those who are my commerce partners." - JD
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