From the library
Buy Back Your Time
Dan Martell, 2022
In one paragraph
Dan Martell's guide to valuing your time, delegating effectively, and building a business you don't grow to hate. Focuses on the buyback principle - buying back your time by investing in systems, people, and processes that allow you to focus on high-value activities. Best read when your business starts growing.
Also tagged
Where this sits in the operating system
Compound Leverage
Systems Over Goals
Focus & Essentialism
Key insights
Compute your hourly rate and delegate anything below it. The arithmetic is crude and it settles arguments you would otherwise keep having with yourself.
Hire to relieve pain rather than to fill a plan. The tasks you dread are the ones leaking the most capacity.
The camera, transcript, checklist method is the practical core: record yourself doing the work once instead of writing procedure from memory.
Recognise it early
The failure and the correction sit side by side deliberately. Read the left column asking whether any of it is already true of you.
Doing low-value work because delegation seems difficult
Avoiding buyback investments due to upfront costs
Delegating without adequate documentation and support
Managing by measuring activity instead of energy and value
Building business that requires constant personal involvement
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The full breakdown
Before you close this
Naming the specific moment you will act roughly doubles the odds you do.
Reference
- Author
- Dan Martell
- Published
- 2022
- Category
- Business
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