Season 1

Build a Business That Works

Understand how a business works, build the systems it runs on, and improve them.

  1. Understand
  2. Build
  3. Improve

Published episodes

  1. Episode 1 S1E01

    What a Business Actually Is: People, Processes, Resources and Systems

    Every product depends on people, processes, resources and systems working together. This first lesson builds a simple way of seeing your business: four connected elements and three core flows (winning work, delivering work and getting paid), with a fictional home bakery and a five-person agency as worked examples. Exercise: map your business on one page and circle the connection that causes the most trouble.

  2. Episode 2 S1E02

    How Work Actually Gets Done: Tasks, Processes and Systems

    Use input → process → output to break any piece of work into understandable steps.

  3. Episode 3 S1E03

    The Customer Journey as an Operating System

    Understand, through a simplified five-stage teaching framework, the operational work behind each stage of a customer's experience.

  4. Episode 4 S1E04

    Phase 1 Recap: How Your Business Really Works

    Spot constraints and recognize when the owner has become the bottleneck.

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