050: Business-Building Metaphors—Are You Running a Machine, House, or Restaurant?

Metaphors are powerful drivers for our mind—they allow us to quickly convey complex information to better understand abstract ideas. How do you think about business-building? Are you building a machine, managing a house, running a restaurant, or something else altogether? In this episode, we are discussing helpful aspects of all three analogies, and countering the role of entropy in any organic system.

📘 Books Mentioned:

Free Time: Lose the Busywork, Love Your Business — If you want to join the book launch team to get insider access and community leading up to the launch, sign-up at itsfreetime.com/join and you’ll be the first to know when that kicks off!

• Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One

• Shortcut: How Analogies Reveal Connections, Spark Innovation, and Sell Our Greatest Ideas

• Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling

• The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement

• Organizational Physics | The Science of Growing a Business

• Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business

• Work Clean Life Changing Power

• Everything In Its Place: The Power of Mise-En-Place to Organize Your Life, Work, and Mind

• The Boutique: How To Start, Scale, And Sell A Professional Services Firm

🎧 Podcast Episodes Mentioned:

• Free Time: 044: Are You High Net Freedom?, 046: Time Margin—Are You Drowning, Treading Water, or Gliding?, 048: Ten Timeless Content Principles, high net freedom, 002: Eliminate Email with Cal Newport

• Pivot Podcast: 29: Deep Work: Ditch Cognitive Junk Food with Cal Newport, 122: Digital Minimalism with Cal Newport

• Akimbo with Seth Godin

• The Boutique with Greg Alexander

🔗 Resources Mentioned: The free Author Toolkit (with Your Book and Big Idea workshop), The “10 Things” Rule Keeps My House Uncluttered, Even with a Family of Six, Develop the Art of Mise-en-Place

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