Mike Paton on Identifying Core Processes For Your Business

This deep-dive into the revolutionary EOS method to strengthen a company's process component will help leaders at all companies run better businesses and live better lives. If you own, run, or lead in a fast-moving business, you're likely driven by passion and a desire to be free.

Many leaders mistakenly believe instilling rigor and discipline for process throughout your organizations will inhibit freedom. They couldn't be more wrong. It's when you're stuck in the day-to-day, putting out fires and cleaning up messes, that passion turns to frustration. Freedom seems somewhere between elusive and impossible. The secret to getting unstuck is process. This inspiring, informative field guide will prove it's possible to establish rigor and discipline for process while also increasing creativity, flexibility, and innovation.

Process!, written by Mike Paton and Lisa Gonzales, will help you identify a handful of core processes that make your business uniquely valuable. You'll learn how to document and simplify the major steps in those processes so they can be done the right and best way, every time. Finally, you'll execute a simple, step-by-step plan that is helping entrepreneurs around the world consistently get the results they want.

Mike Paton has spent every working day of the last 15 years helping thousands of leaders around the globe run better businesses and live better lives. An EOS Implementer and sought-after speaker, Paton succeeded Gino Wickman and spent five years as EOS Worldwide’s Visionary, is the host of the top-rated podcast The EOS Leader, and co-authored two books in the Traction Library – Get A Grip and Process!

He’s grateful to be living his ideal life – helping others master the timeless disciplines and practical tools of the Entrepreneurial Operating System.

Topics in this episode include:

01:08 - About Mike Paton

09:07 - Process doesn't destroy freedom, it creates freedom

19:35 - Documenting the process

23:33 - Communication and training as part of the process

31:03 - Keeping the system simple

36:20 - Leading to help employees manage themselves

Get the book here: https://www.amazon.com/Process-Discipline-Consistency-Will-Business/dp/B0BHLGY2R7/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2DVM9E6GI3XTQ&keywords=mike+paton+process&qid=1680740005&s=books&sprefix=mike+paton+process%2Cstripbooks%2C74&sr=1-1

About Gene: Gene Marks is a former columnist for The New York Times and The Washington Post and now writes weekly on political, economic, management and technology issues affecting small and mid-sized businesses for The Guardian, The Hill, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Washington Times, Forbes and Entrepreneur. He runs a 10-person company financial and technology consulting firm near Philadelphia.