Philip Cooke's guest appearances

Philip Cooke

The Focus 53 Podcast: Business Systems, People, & Processes

Tom Schwab

Nathan Chan

Tucker Max

Cameron Herold

Aaron Walker

Rob Dial

Austin Netzley

Doug Sandler

Jaime Jay

Mark Asquith

Ryan Gray

Lauren Gaggioli

Lee Cockerell

Chris Blair

Jon Nastor

OwlTail

Guest Name: Philip Cooke - Radically Simple Consulting Guest Intro: My guest today is Philip Cooke whose lifelong passions are process improvement and helping people achieve their deepest passions in life. His engineering firm helps businesses who can't keep up with their demand for their product or service. They streamline their workflow to get more done with what they have.  Topics We Discuss: The challenges and successes Philip commonly sees in organizations The impact Philip provides to their clients: Finding the bottleneck is key How to tap into people who need help but don't understand the value The importance of knowing your pain points When to know your operation is growing in an unsustainable way Balancing between improving operations and new projects: Getting things ironed out before adding people The difference between automation and building a process: Make sure you're NOT automating a broken process! Attributes of great leaders: Daily plan + Execution Dealing with decisions and tasks performed at a wrong level What makes a bottleneck? Find the bottleneck and start finding ways to shift around Freeing your mind to take things off the plate Metrics and monitoring the health of an organization: Scoreboards with 2-3 Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) Cycle Time First Time Right Making sure there's a good market for what you do The way to build relationships: Providing VALUE The importance of simplifying your operations: Whiteboards + simple systems  Books, People, &amp; Resources: Radically Simple Consulting The Go-Giver by Bob Burg and John David Mann The Goal by Eliyahu Goldratt The ONE Thing by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan

Guest Name: Philip Cooke - Radically Simple Consulting Guest Intro: My guest today is Philip Cooke whose lifelong passions are process improvement and helping people achieve their deepest passions in life. His engineering firm helps businesses who can't keep up with their demand for their product or service. They streamline their workflow to get more done with what they have. Topics We Discuss: The challenges and successes Philip commonly sees in organizations The impact Philip provides to their clients: Finding the bottleneck is key How to tap into people who need help but don't understand the value The importance of knowing your pain points When to know your operation is growing in an unsustainable way Balancing between improving operations and new projects: Getting things ironed out before adding people The difference between automation and building a process: Make sure you're NOT automating a broken process! Attributes of great leaders: Daily plan + Execution Dealing with decisions and tasks performed at a wrong level What makes a bottleneck? Find the bottleneck and start finding ways to shift around Freeing your mind to take things off the plate Metrics and monitoring the health of an organization: Scoreboards with 2-3 Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) Cycle Time First Time Right Making sure there's a good market for what you do The way to build relationships: Providing VALUE The importance of simplifying your operations: Whiteboards + simple systems Books, People, &amp; Resources: Radically Simple Consulting The Go-Giver by Bob Burg and John David Mann The Goal by Eliyahu Goldratt The ONE Thing by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan

F53-078: Want To Grow? Find and Fix The Operational Bottlenecks - Philip Cooke