Free time : lose the busywork, love your business /
Blake, Jenny,author.
"Time is not money. Time is life force. Your time is far more precious than money. It is your presence, your memories, your quality of life. As a business owner, you are already paying a risk and pressure tax. For many, growth fueled by added stress is not worth the trade-off. You have an urge to simplify and streamline instead. Ask yourself: Are you consistently doing the work that you and only you can do? Or are you burdened by busywork, the bottleneck blocking your company's profit and potential? Free Time is not about working as little as possible. Nor is it about creating a lifestyle business purely for one's own gain. It is about creating a life-giving business energizing every single person who is a part of it, from the owner to team members, to clients and community. Free Time is about making small investments now to create greater optionality in the future. A more joyful business is within reach. Imagine: Traveling, going off the grid, or handling family emergencies without panicking that everything will fall apart while you are gone. Working 10- to 20-hour weeks, delegating the rest to a motivated, part-time remote team. Answering questions with relief, knowing you don't have to "own" the next steps. Empowering your Delightfully Tiny Team(TM) to answer their own questions before they even have to ask you. Harnessing your creative energy for the strategic projects that excite you most. Jenny Blake, author of the award-winning book Pivot and co-creator of Google's acclaimed Career Guru coaching program, is back with her signature blend of heart-based operating principles and practical tools. This book will teach you how to move from friction to flow through smarter systems and the three-stage Free Time Framework.(TM) Free Time is a playbook to free your mind, time, and team for your best work. This book will teach you and your team to operate efficiently and intuitively, while earning abundantly, so you can make your greatest contribution as a business owner. Let's dive in." --
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction. Business stress is a systems problem ; The check is in the mail ; Heart-based business -- Free time framework. Friction versus flow ; The missing metric ; High net freedom ; Free up founder time: escape velocity -- Part 1: Align. Overview ; Values. Chapter 1: Embrace agile operating principles: what's your wi-fi password?. Take a stand: "even over" versus bland -- Chapter 2: Create an externalized mind. Define your brand -- Chapter 3: Systematize the spirit of your business -- Energy. Chapter 4: Set purposeful intentions -- Chapter 5: Let it be easy, let it be fun. Close the loop: indecision is your decision -- Chapter 6: Give yourself golden hour: what's your job today?. Free up even more founder time -- Strengths. Chapter 7: Build your business intuition -- Chapter 8: Continuously bust bottlenecks. Techtuition: stop the "bad at technology" story -- Chapter 9: Embrace inmperfection: cookie dough and tiny streaks. Refocus: eyes on your own paper -- Align resources --
Part 2: Design. Overview ; Outcomes. Chapter 10: Invite nonlinear breakthroughs. Transcend tug-of-war with sacred third solutions -- Chapter 11: Serendipity as business strategy -- Chapter 12: Solve for Sisyphean systems. Stop sailing the sea of shiny shoulds -- Impact. Chapter 13: Always be listening -- Chapter 14: Scale: be ready for a big break. Seven scale-building levers -- Chapter 15: Use life-giving language -- Process. Chapter 16: Design deep work containers. How we free time at JBE -- Chapter 17: Time block and bake in batches. Bake in batches to eliminate task bloat -- Chapter 18: Automate what you repeat -- Design resources -- Part 3: Assign. Overview ; Who. Chapter 19: Promote yourself from Chief Everything Officer -- Chapter 20: Construct your delightfully tiny team -- Chapter 21: Double how much you delegate. Run a hiring pilot at home -- What. Chapter 22: The Fiji test: make ourselves replaceable -- Chapter 23: Drained? Let's discuss -- Chapter 24: Frustrated? Take responsibilty. Invite debate, disagreement, and feedback -- When. Chapter 25: Track every task and assign one owner. Tidy tasks -- Chapter 26: Answer less: every question lives three lives. Work asynchronously -- Chapter 27: Save someone next steps -- Assign Resources -- Conclusion -- On work -- Acknowledgments -- Resources. Send a free time permission slip ; Free time framework quick reference ; Operating principles reflection questions ; Manager manual template ; Free time for your future self: systems-thinking steps ; Additional resources for small business owners.
"Time is not money. Time is life force. Your time is far more precious than money. It is your presence, your memories, your quality of life. As a business owner, you are already paying a risk and pressure tax. For many, growth fueled by added stress is not worth the trade-off. You have an urge to simplify and streamline instead. Ask yourself: Are you consistently doing the work that you and only you can do? Or are you burdened by busywork, the bottleneck blocking your company's profit and potential? Free Time is not about working as little as possible. Nor is it about creating a lifestyle business purely for one's own gain. It is about creating a life-giving business energizing every single person who is a part of it, from the owner to team members, to clients and community. Free Time is about making small investments now to create greater optionality in the future. A more joyful business is within reach. Imagine: Traveling, going off the grid, or handling family emergencies without panicking that everything will fall apart while you are gone. Working 10- to 20-hour weeks, delegating the rest to a motivated, part-time remote team. Answering questions with relief, knowing you don't have to "own" the next steps. Empowering your Delightfully Tiny Team(TM) to answer their own questions before they even have to ask you. Harnessing your creative energy for the strategic projects that excite you most. Jenny Blake, author of the award-winning book Pivot and co-creator of Google's acclaimed Career Guru coaching program, is back with her signature blend of heart-based operating principles and practical tools. This book will teach you how to move from friction to flow through smarter systems and the three-stage Free Time Framework.(TM) Free Time is a playbook to free your mind, time, and team for your best work. This book will teach you and your team to operate efficiently and intuitively, while earning abundantly, so you can make your greatest contribution as a business owner. Let's dive in." --
Small business
Delegation of authority.
Management
Organizational effectiveness.