What systems should use when deadlines are fast approaching? Imagine that you are under the pump under stress, you've got deadlines to meet, you know that you've got to get the work done.

But you've also had an epiphany or an awareness that systems hold the strategic advantage at such a level, that ...

Here's the perfect solution.

If you want to run your business on systems, there's an interesting dilemma that's going to come up for you when you think about systemization.

And that is, when you look at your business, there are a lot of systems and it's very easy to get overwhelmed.

And put the enti...

Do you take the time to do this, so you can save hours?

Last week we covered the idea that marketing is not a direct part of your customer's journey…

The simplified version of business is:

• find potential customers
• make sales to some of those
• fulfill your promises to those that bought.

Thes...

Do it yourself or pay for expertise?

I'm in an interesting place, and I want to share it with you.

And that is that I'm building my first software app and said, you know, what wouldn't it be cool is if the particular processes for a small number of systems were defined as I built them out to specifi...

Does better equipment always give better results? 

Welcome to today's episode.

My name is Tom Rolley and excited to be sharing with you the new setup.

Yes, this is the first time that I've actually successfully gone live with the external mic using the s 10.

And the DJI on four is all very impre...

Which of these problems solving mistakes will you make? 

Problem-solving is such an interesting and necessary requirement not just in business, but in life, generally.

And I want to share a quick story about my adventures in problem-solving.

Now, for whatever reason, I decided that I wanted to upgr...

What is the system’s critical path?

So it's doing some study this morning on the unofficial project manager, quite a good book put out by Franklin Covey and it recognizes the problem that many of us in the world right now is actually doing projects.

But we have not been trained to do these projects ...

How to give effective feedback for fast project results.

Welcome to today's episode, my name is Tom Rolley.

Excited to give you some feedback, if you listen to yesterday's episode, we discussed giving feedback to get things done to get a project to its next stage, and not have to loop back and do th...

Feedback testing doesn't make a difference to project success.

So interesting conversation, I'm doing experiments with how I provide feedback in development.

What I'm up to at the moment is building a new app.

And as usual, in life, I get to choose two out of three, you can have fast, you can have g...

We ran into a business problem…

If the goal of a business is to attract customers, sell to customers and deliver to customers…

Then how do the four common business areas of marketing, sales, advertising, and fulfilling fit together?

I gave you how I thought of them - like this…

But as I was wo...

Why do so many projects fail, even if the team members are working so hard? Like, that's what I see, I see a lot of people working really hard doing long hours.

And yet, the stats say that many projects will fail.

I want to introduce you to two ideas that I'm running concurrently for whatever ADHD b...

System failures are a good thing.

You would think perhaps that when systems don't work when they fail that this would be a bad thing inverted commas, a bad thing makes things not work.

And the unfortunate thing is that for a lot of people, a system failure is a bad thing.

Why because they do not tak...