Beyond 10 Million

Seven things that are yours.

No charge, no sign-up, nothing held back until you give an email. Use one, use all seven, use none. They are built for owners of five to twenty person companies, and each one is finished in the time it says.

01About fifteen minutes

The Instruction Manual

Everyone who works for you is already guessing at you.

Twenty-four questions about how you actually work. It writes two pages in your own words that you hand to the crew: what you are like under pressure, what your quiet means, what they can count on from you.

You walk away with: the end of everyone guessing at you

See a finished one first
02About two minutes

The CEO Tune-Up

How are you actually running right now?

Everyone checks the business. Almost nobody checks the owner running it. Rate yourself on eight things like clarity, focus and energy, against where you want to be. It gives you a straight read on where you have drifted and the one thing to work on next. Come back each week and watch it move.

You walk away with: a clear picture of how you are operating, and the one thing to fix first

03About five minutes

The 90-Day Test

How long would this company run without you?

Twelve questions about what only lives in your head. It answers in days, and names the one thing to hand over first.

You walk away with: the first thing you can stop carrying

04About three minutes

The Take-Home Cash Gap

What is this work actually paying you?

Revenue, hours worked, and what you actually take home. Most owners have never put those together on purpose.

You walk away with: a straight answer on whether this is worth it

05About twenty minutes

The 20 Minute Team Assessment

Where does each person actually stand?

Ten questions per person. Everyone lands in one order with no ties, and one thing to do about each of them.

You walk away with: the people decisions you have been avoiding

06About five minutes

The Org Chart

Who is actually carrying this company?

Add each person and who they answer to. Leave a box empty for the seat nobody is in yet. It flags the person with too many people under them, and it prints.

You walk away with: the chart on one page, and the one box that is too full

07Thirty seconds

Make It About Them

Your post, rewritten so the customer is in it.

Paste something you wrote for Facebook. It comes back with the buyer in the middle of it instead of your company, plus a note on what changed.

You walk away with: something worth posting, and why it works

Who these are not for

If you have fewer than five people, there is nobody to hand the work to yet, and none of this will help. If you are past twenty-five with a real leadership team, you are ready for the big systems and these are too small for you. If what you need is more leads, that is a different problem and a different person.

A note from Max

I have spent seventeen years working with small companies, and every one of these came out of the same thing: the business only runs the way it does because the owner is holding it in their head. Take whatever is useful. Nothing here asks you for anything back.