There is no software in sight in that pantry, and that is far closer to how I think about systems in business. In this first episode of That Systems Show, I unpack what I mean by the word and why so many systems fall over.

In this episode you'll learn:

  • Why a system is a repeatable way of doing things, tech or not, and what changes when you stop looking at the tools and start looking at how they connect
  • The three overlapping pillars behind The Sane Systems Blueprint, and which one nearly everybody skips
  • How I ran a snack drawer through those three pillars, and the same three questions applied to a business process

The line I keep coming back to is this. A system built around your reality gives you consistency without you having to be the consistent one. That is the difference between something that looks brilliant in week one and something you are still using in month six.

By the end you'll have a way to look at the thing in your business that keeps falling over. And a far better answer than telling yourself to be more organised.

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