EP416: Peter Cook - Management 101: Taking Score Of Your Business

Michael Palmer: And I think when you hear any, like any successful person talk about their achievements, no one gets up and goes, oh yeah, I worked all this out myself and then I did it all myself and how awesome am I? It's always a story of, oh, I had these amazing people who helped along the way and I wouldn't have got here without them. You're listening to The Successful Bookkeeper with your host, Michael Palmer. Listen each week as inspiring guests share their secrets of success to help you increase your confidence, work smarter, and build a business you love. This episode of The Successful Bookkeeper is brought to you by purebookkeeping.com, the proven system to grow your bookkeeping business. Welcome back to The Successful Bookkeeper Podcast. I'm your host, Michael Palmer, and we have again a very special guest who is back in a series. We're talking about E-Myth Bookkeeper, Peter Cook. Welcome back to the show. Thank you, Michael. Good to be here again. Yes. And listener, if this is your— the first you've jumped into this episode, this is the third episode in a series where we're diving deep into E-Myth Bookkeeper. And if you don't have that book,— or you haven't listened to one of the podcast episodes about this, you can go to the show notes, go back to the beginning, and watch each one of those or listen to each one of those episodes. And of course, get your copy of The E-Myth Bookkeeper. You can go to thesuccessfulbookkeeper.com/emyth and you can follow along and start incorporating this into your life and your business. And so, Peter, I want to thank you again for coming on the show. For letting us dive deeper into some of the chapters out of the book. Today, we're going to do it again and dive deep in another chapter. So welcome. Thank you very much. Good to be here. What chapter is on your mind this week?

Well, I think a lot of our listeners are going to love this chapter because it's all about Chapter 8, Managing Your Bookkeeping business. You've mentioned throughout the series the technician, the entrepreneur, and the manager of the business being those three key components of every business owner, those important components of— I forget what they call them— is it the trilogy of their way of being or thinking? But managing is a big one. And And when thought about and done correctly, it's such an important and I think often overlooked component of a business. Let's dive in.

Peter Cook Emyth Series 3 (May 7): Yeah, I think this chapter really