Less than best
How SOPs are a measurement tool
Sob stories
SOB vs SOP
Death
A litmus test for business systems
Stability for growth
Why stability is not boring
The perfect employee
Every business owner's dream
SOPs have feelings
Hear me out
Systems are intimate
In every sense of the word :)
Help future you
How to create SOPs
Hyper Personalized
How personalized systems work
Departmental blindness
How to ensure coordination and collaboration
Constraints breed creativity
How to convert stress into productivity
Refactoring
Why you don't need technically well built systems
Tools depend on the user
How to use tools effectively to grow your business
Recording Reasons
How to refine decision making
Once and for all
How to make work easier, even as complexity grows
Soft Systems
How to ensure your systems work
The Frame of Context
A simple and powerful way to align people
Perception of systems
How to make people love systems
Common vs Complex
Chicken or egg first?
Economics and culture
How to install systems without fancy budgets
Planning
How to make your business run like clockwork
Value vs Cost
and what it's worth
One person meetings
How to build your business instead of just running it
Go for what it gives
How to uncover ultimate outcomes
Minimalist Systems
How to save time, money and yourself from business complexity
Measure twice cut once
How to create effective dashboards and reports
Cross checking
How to ensure integrity of information
Everything, Everywhere, all at Once
Why visibility is important
Compartmentalize
How division of labour affects your business
Solidifying Systems
How to create reliable systems
Alignment & Balancing
How OKRs ensure the wheels of your business turn exactly where you want
We all feel the value
How to see the value of things early
Do or dance
The systematic dance in businesses
Borrowed Knowledge
How to deepen understanding
of Math and Maps
How math liberates and accelerates your business
Last minute
How systems can facilitate the adrenaline rush
SOP of SOPs
How to create accurate recepies for activity
Give yourself space
How to always feel like a boss
What you insist persists
and how to use that to grow your business
Protecting Priority
and how to create consistency
Approach
The deeper impact of systems
Sparks
How to fire up the business engine
Play music, not the instrument
Because instruments are no fun without the music
Stuck in the Technicalities
How to stop getting stuck in tech
Trustless
Working without worry
Incremental Improvements
How to build systems for your business
Constant Reviews
How to keep everyone aligned
Systems Funnel
How to convert data to intelligence
Closed Circuits
Cheers to closure
Start with the end
How to develop inspite of unknowns
Contingency
How to ensure execution
Make Science not sense
You read that right
Owners Time
Using time to earn freedom & wealth
Fundamentals First
How to build reliable systems
Giving wings to your vision
How systems bring your vision to life
Scratch the itch
How to use deliberate evolution
Setting Expectations
Navigating system changes
The final pieces
What it takes to perfectly polish systems
Document as you go
A simple method to manage the messy madness
Little Steps
How small steps create momentum
Right in the feels
How feelings are in-built indicators
Scaffolding Knowledge
A powerful technique to communicate complexity
Systems are like plumbing
Plumbing is a sign of civilization for a reason
Enshittification
How everything naturally goes to shit and how to avoid it.
from Gossip to Grounding
How we encourage chaos by ignoring systems
There will be no work left to do
A reflection on how we get held back by silly little thoughts
Let nature nurture
How curated experiences are a part of systems
Emergence
How to systemize for completely new situations
Deliberate Exposure
How to devise a growth system for individuals
Tides of change
What to do about systems that change over time
Solve permanently
How to build systems that last forever
Restful at Redline
Redline is the fastest, farthest, or highest point or degree considered safe
The Technicals for Non-Techies
How to really understand any technical aspect for non technical people
Fimiliarity
How to make usable systems
Desire Paths
How observation is more important than thought
Hard parts first
Hard first vs easy first
Self-Supportive Systems
How to create systems that give you freedom
of Speed and Detail
How to track everything that matters without loosing speed
Testing
How to ensure it works
Brute force UX design
The non-technical way to smooth systems
Orientation
The mechanics of willingness
Just in time knowledge
How AI fits in
Systems vs Strategy
Synergy
Build with a blueprint
Gentle reminder for clarity
Systemize for the worst
Why fancy systems don't work
Get the final picture first
A tactical way to tackle business metrics
Systems shape your business
Chatting about how systems, not just work, shape our businesses and lives.
Speed of feedback
How to normalise feedback
Lil misunderstandings
How to make activity precise
Personify to simplify
The root skill to tackle any technical topic
Dumb it down
How to communicate technical things
Self selling systems
What makes people willing to use systems on their own
What numbers say
Stories show you more than data can
Collective Knowledge
How collating learnings is a growth and branding tool
Logs
How to get infinite and exact memory
Feel the weight
How feelings can give you clarity
Follow the pain
How pain helps you prioritize
The Tact of Training
5 simple steps to 100% success everytime
Link to the larger picture
How to give perspective
Decision Lists
How to keep track of decisions and the reasons behind them
Systems allow for strategy
Work without strategy is like a story without a beginning, middle or end
Too much too early
Let necessity be the mother of your systems
Incentive Engineering
All about the carrot
Trial & Error
How history repeats itself in business
Too busy driving to refuel
How the DRY principle helps you create systems for daily ops.
Systems ensure maximum speed
The growth gspot for businesses
Reps
How reps make your business stronger
Systems are not just the tech
Busting the myth of systems being only software
Minimize the manual
What the machine can do the machine should do, but what the human should know, the human should do
What is there to loose
Inaction costs more than we think
Continuous and Infinite
How systems allow for unlimited growth
Systems are vehicles
A useful analogy to put systems in perspective
Create time and space for talent
Space to bring out their best
Where the rubber meets the road
How you already have systems that make things happen
Reverse Calculation
Easy way to get started with systems
How to guide technical people
For the rest of us, non-technical people
It's a combination of things
How to craft systems that deliver
Putting your foot down
How to help clients avoid obvious pitfalls
Why information is intelligence
And how it all works
Death by a thousand cuts
How the little things hold us back
Systems are your legacy
How you already are creating systems every single day!
The value of systems
How systems are a fundamental investment for your business
Tech Debt
How to balance your time & resources for systems
Offload cognitive load
Tools to tackle complexity in your cognition
You anyway have shitty systems
You know you need a system, don't you?
Good Systems make you feel good
The grease for your business engine
Convert Intuition to Logic
Empower your business by enabling others, while keeping everything in check
Forced honesty
Systems are bloody MACHINES to help you reflect!
Overwhelm
Read if you think systems are too much work to do
Organized Information
How to arrive at meaningful metrics
Mirror mirror on the wall
How to create the opposite of yes men
Read between the excuses
Excuses are indicators
Good systems reassure
Trust in thy systems
Remove Duplicates
Duplicate tasks are worse than duplicate data
Where's the fun in it?
A simple way to produce productivity.
Systems convert expertise to standards
Curated actions lead to credible results.
Refining these leads to incredible results.
Friction
Why curated chaos is better than slick systems
SOPs should be live documents
They are literally recipes to your success!
Brick by brick
A simple method for architectural integrity of systems
Guaranteed growth
The secret to evergreen systems
Systems that Support
How systems can help you give experiential support & guidance at scale
Systems are an applied science
Active usage makes it shine
Complexity of communication
Why people are organized in hierarchies. How more is never better.
Can't force individual growth
But we need to all the time
Keep it Real
How to ensure automatic compliance to your systems
Ease
What we all want from business systems
Can always be figured out
Only after something is made and tested can you improve or tighten it.
There are no accidents
History repeats only if you allow it to
Inclusive Numbers become North Stars
Master how to measure only what matters in your business for better control and clarity.
Resilient Systems
Chaos reveals strength of systems in business
Building Blocks
How to unblock to unlock.
The applied repetition bias
Identifying the expertise generators in your business
Applied beats Understood
Enjoying the fruits of experience!
Preped for success
How systems make you ready for the next level
Feedback Frequency
How frequent feedback fules the fire of growth
Delay makes it harder
The more you wait, the harder it gets.
Blank page
What to do if you don't have a system and don't know how to make one.
Repeat Repeat Repeat
One kick 10,000 times > 10,000 kicks — Bruce Lee
Grind = Polish
To grind or not to grind?
A word on writing
Why writing is no less than a super power.
Now is easy
How to use the power of now to simplify complex things.
Correct context
What you can do to cultivate the frame of reference people have.
Momentum gives you wings
Real wings — to glide over the daily drama
Always at max Capacity
Why it's important to always be on the edge.
Colour Coding
Convert information to knowledge
Fill in the blanks
The devil is in the details that are not taken care of.
Impersonal + humane
Are systems too cold for human hearts?
Missed takes
How mistakes are an integral party of building systems
Visibility
How visibility is a fundamental step for growth & scale
One, some & many
How to craft systems for humans.
Use scale to simplify
A simple technique to grow your business
Systems include MIS & Dashbaords
MIS is one part of systems. Systems do more than just give information. They define the flow of information. A Management Information System is just one...
Hustle does not hold.
How hustling holds you back
People vs Systems
or is it systems vs people?
Thaali
Digestion > eating
If not now, then when?
How we fool ourselves and delay the good stuff.
I like forests more
How systems actually allow for chaos and consistent results at the same time.
Walking in a forest - vs city
If you've spent a some time walking around in a forest, you will see that you're super alert. In business, even once, if you don't pay attention a mistake...
Set & forget
How to get out of the small stuff and get moving on the big stuff
Systems ensure effortless execution
However simple the system is, it’s good only if it helps execute effortlessly. What's the point if they don’t? This is a simple litmus test you can use for...
Mistakes — Some live examples
How a second boo boo helped me tighten my system up.
Mistakes are indicators
Learn how mistakes can become tools
Break it down
How it is a superpower, not just a skill
Rhythm > Schedule
A schedule is stagnant, but meeting rhythms are dynamic. Instead of fixing times, fix the outcomes and loose timings for when they should happen. A simple...
Alignment is the magic ingredient
When each piece fits perfectly to become a single force
System = Freedom
A system is set when every step or task is clearly defined, scheduled for someone; and has a feedback loop. Only when each of these are in place, it is self-...
I made a boo boo
There was too much to do yesterday. In all the hustle bustle, I forgot to post the email that I'd fully written down also! This is exactly how balls are...
Systems create clarity
The Chain of command creates clarity in the military How does your business create clarity? Do you have visibility on critical things at least? Most...
The hustle for big systems
If you spend 2 years and a ton of money implementing the best ERP system only to find out it's not enough — what's the point? Compare that to simple...
Systems simplify work.
Systems are meant to simplify work. Only if you simplify work, you can make room for more to happen. Meaning, it also allows you to scale. Without this, we...
