A short transcript excerpt of a YouTube talk by Jim Johnson about moving from being ‘owned’ by your business (entrepreneur/operator/technician trapped in daily work) to owning the business so it generates the desired lifestyle. He explains coaches deploy lightweight but essential systems—employee handbooks, clear metrics, tracking job completion time—to scale businesses quickly and free owners from day-to-day tasks.
All the others. Entrepreneur, operator, technician. The business kind of owns you. And our job as coaches is to get you from there to owning your business and having it work for you to create the lifestyle that you're after. So that's why we put all this other stuff in place, which allows us to scale the businesses quickly. These things do not take a huge amount of effort, but they are things that have to be done. We just tick them off, knock them off, and then we get there a lot faster than you would ever imagine. But as a business, you run into all this other stuff where this is where you're getting into employee handbooks and understanding your numbers really well so that you can pull the right lever at the right time. So how fast does it take to do a job from start to finish, and tracking that.
