Clockwork: Design Your Business to Run Itself
By Mike Michalowicz

Do you worry that your business will collapse without your constant presence? Are you sacrificing your family, friendships, and freedom to keep your business alive? What if instead your business could run itself, freeing you to do what you love when you want, while it continues to grow and turn a profit?It's possible. And it's easier than you think.If you're like most entrepreneurs, you started your business so you could be your own boss, make the money you deserve, and live life on your own terms. In reality, you're bogged down in the daily grind, constantly putting out fires, answering an endless stream of questions, and continually hunting for cash.Now, Mike Michalowicz, the author ofand Profit Firstand and other small-business bestsellers, offers a straightforward step-by-step path out of this dilemma. Inand Clockwork, he draws on more than six years of research and real life examples to explain his simple approach to making your business ultra-efficient.Among other powerful strategies, you will discover how to:and and •and and Make your employees act like owners:and Free yourself from micromanaging by using a simple technique to empower your people to make smart decisions without you.and and •and and Pinpoint your business's most important function:and Unleash incredible efficiency by identifying and focusing everyone on the one function that is most crucial to your business.and and •and and Know what to fix next:and Most entrepreneurs try to fix every inefficiency at once and end up fixing nothing. Use the "weakest link in the chain" method to find the one fix that will add the most value now.Whether you have a staff of one, one hundred, or somewhere in between, whether you're a new entrepreneur or have been overworked and overstressed for years,and Clockworkand is your path to finally making your business work for you.