Lack of Operations Manuals stunting your growth?
Do YOU lack functional Operations Manuals?Great businesses depend on SYSTEMS, not people. That's because you can duplicate systems, but not people. If your business can't duplicate salable results, it won't survive.
Duplication is Nature's Survival Law.
If your organization lacks Operations Manuals, your growth and success will be limited due to lack of a duplicable (documented) SYSTEM.
You can use a SYSTEM to write your Operations Manuals!
Extraordinary people don't build great businesses. Ordinary people produce extraordinary results using a duplicable system. That's how you build a great business.
The faster you develop good Operations Manuals the faster you will have a great business!
But Mike, my people just don't/won't write stuff down!
You will hear many excuses and attitudes for why people don't write Operations Manuals.
"We just don't have enough time."These are typical objections that people express. But, one of the most UNexpressed fears is:
"It's not my job man! You hired me to be a [manager, programmer, accountant, engineer, whatever]. I'm not a writer!"
"I hate to write. Who needs it!"
"Whenever I feel like writing, I lie down until the feeling goes away."
"It's different here. Things change too fast. The minute we write something down, it's obsolete..."
"If I document my job in an Operations Manual, I can be replaced! I'll lose my job!"No wonder so few organizations have Operations Manuals!
But people WILL write stuff down - if ...
... and only if they can realize a benefit!
Do you know what benefit(s) might accrue to people who write stuff down? (Continued in next blog.)
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