Since it’s going to be done exactly the same way every week, it’s a process—not a task.

It takes something that can be done only by one individual and turns it into something that can be done by anyone, an infinite number of times.

without micromanaging or chasing.

obsessed with finding a better way to run a business.

Instead of constantly pushing information at everyone, you and your team need to be able to “pull” the information you need when you need it.

When clients of Leverage saw how I had been able to turn the business around, they asked me to help them with the same things I was originally struggling with. I received some positive feedback, and I started to see that this framework applied to basically any company. Every company I worked with was

I hired freelancers on various platforms to help out, and I soon realized how inefficient it was to work with them. The problem was that hiring freelancers at $20 an hour doesn’t turn out to be a bargain

To be productive, you need to set up systems for holding ideas, and those systems need to be optimized for retrieval of information. After all, if you have a bunch of systems for holding ideas but it takes you hours to comb through them and find the one you’re looking for, what’s the point?

Sometimes people are overwhelmed by the thought of implementing these five categories of tools and would rather just use one tool to handle everything in their business. Typically, I respond to