If you have a fast growing business, and need a practical system for taking back control of it, you need to model serial entrepreneur and CEO Matt Smith.
For over 20 years, Smith has designed and refined his simple management system in a range of industries, including Performance Advertising, Financial Newsletter Publishing, and Software Development. The results speak for themselves.
Take Royalty Exchange. Smith acquired the start-up after it had failed to find traction under former management. After implementing his simple management system, it has gone on to become a leader in alternative financial instruments.
It now offers independent investors access to royalties from artists including Barry White, Eazy-E, and Rihanna.
Then there was Stansberry & Associates. Smith was brought in to lead the business and pull it out of a performance nosedive. Implementing his simple management system, the business quickly turned around.
Productivity increased dramatically- three week assignments started being delivered in a single day — and revenue grew grew 25% year on year, rapidly reaching over $200 Million annually.
Taking Control Through Simplicity
When taking control of dire circumstances, Smith doesn’t waste time re-staffing the entire company, investing in expensive growth without profits, or working 12-hours per day without holidays.
Instead, he uses his simple management system to do three things:
- Improve staff productivity on both an individual and team level. By unlocking staff performance, more can be achieved, and faster — all without old school HR and micro-management tactics.
- Strengthen the business’ operational tempo. Through his simple management system Smith eliminated volatile, emergency-driven management. It was replaced with outcome oriented management, based on a predictable cycle of review and respond.
- Take control of the business by putting a practical management method in place at all levels. With all employees working towards the same big picture and from the same system, the organization eliminated communication drag and inefficiencies.
By achieving these outcomes with his simple management system, Smith creates a smooth, predictable process of achievement.
As the achievements compound each week, the business grows dramatically but without drama — giving him the freedom and leverage he needs to take it to the next level again and again:
The impact of Smith's simple management system:
From volatile struggle with 12-hour days, to smooth, predictable, rhythmic growth
The Simple Management System Matt Smith Uses To Take Control, And Grow His Businesses In Just Hours Per Week
In just a handful of hours each week, Smith can run and grow his business from wherever he is in the world — as long as he isn’t holidaying off-the-grid in Panama, Argentina, Germany, or Costa Rica.
While other entrepreneurs are focusing on doing as much as they can, grinding away long hours and trying to do it all on their own, Smith takes the opposite approach.
He creates time to deploy his simple management system, made up of 5 highly-leveraged, tightly-run, and performance oriented meetings.
Smith puts these meetings as his top for one reason: through them, he can have a real impact and lead his business effectively instead of running around like a headless chicken.
So what are these 5 critical meetings that make up his simple management system, and how do they provide Smith with the results and leverage to holiday off-the-grid with family while running multi-million dollar operations?
It begins with Smith’s secret weapon on an operational level, the GS&R.
The GS&R
The GS&R, or “Goal Setting & Review”, is a structured weekly meeting used by Smith to develop his employees and keep them highly focused. It’s a one-on-one on steroids, ultimately determining whether or not his business makes progress in any given week.
Smith’s coaching clients, who pay $100,000 per year, are always instructed to implement this first. Within just 4 weeks of them, most can’t believe how much their business has transformed — and how much time they have — as a result of this meeting.
Quarterly Planning
Few businesses do Quarterly Planning, and even fewer do it correctly. Using an evolved Quarterly Planning process, Smith’s leadership identifies key initiatives on a 90-day cycle. Individual members of the leadership team are responsible for each initiative, and expected to report results at the end of the quarter.
By communicating these initiatives to the entire organization, all employees know what is important, and what can be ignored. And as a result, the organization focuses on the few critical tasks that will lead to growth — and not simply delivering a high volume of busy-work.
The Weekly Alignment Meeting
The Weekly Alignment Meeting is used to connect the week-to-week activity of the business to the Quarterly Planning initiatives. This stop employees being derailed or neglecting true priorities.
One of Smith’s associates refers to this meeting as a weekly course-correction. By course-correcting each week, the business stays on track to those important quarterly initiatives and priorities are reinforced.
The Daily Stand-Up
Drawn from Smith’s time in the Software Development world, The Daily Stand-Up is each morning to ensure all staff have a clear focus for the day and aren’t impeded in their objectives.
Used correctly, the Daily Stand-Up addressing organizational friction before it undermines productivity, eliminating the blockers that threaten employee’s making progress on their goals.
The War Room
The final meeting of Smith’s simple management system, The War Room is tightly focused on solving sticky business problems in ever changing environments.
Direct Response Marketers use it to create the breakthrough campaigns that can single handedly build a business. Sales companies use it to address and solve revenue-threatening objections. Manufacturing companies use it to solve complex production issues before they result in million dollar losses.
And they do it all in just 30 minutes.
Why Business Owners Stuck Working 12-Hour Days Saying “But I Don’t Have Time To Do This” Won’t Ever Get To The Next Level
We’ve all heard the phrase “if you find yourself in a hole, the first thing you do is stop digging”.
The same concept applies to working on your business — if you find yourself working 12-hour days, the first thing to do is stop working. Otherwise you won’t make any progress.
As the owner of a business, your measure of success isn’t how many fires you put out or how many hours you work.
Your metric of success is simple: Are you using your limited hours each week to lead and leverage the limited hours of your employees in the most effective way possible?
The success of any business in getting to the next level depends on the ability of the owner to get results through other people.
Intel Founder and former CEO Andy Grove famously said that every direct report requires half a day of management per week to get their best performance.
But using the Pareto Principle, you can get 80% of the results in a less than 20% of the time. Or in other words, in less than an hour each week you can focus your staff, getting more than 30 hours of their efforts in return. And that’s just if you use the GS&R meeting.
How To Start Using Smith’s Simple Management System In Your Business In 48 Hours Or Less
Smith’s simple management system puts a proven collection of powerful feedback loops into your business, giving you the leverage to get greater results through your staff.
Specifically, the 5 meetings put you in control of your business’ growth, so you can reclaim your freedom.
And after working with his private clients for years, Smith decided to teach his system through a practical, step-by-step on-demand video training that could be deployed in any business.
In it’s early release, the Smith's simple management system received positive reviews from entrepreneurs in a variety of industries.
A common theme in the feedback was while expensive business schools and courses emphasize what you should know, Smith’s on-demand training is focused on what you can do.
Entrepreneurs can now purchase the entire plug-and-play management system online.
It is taught using short instructional videos, ready-to-deploy templates for each meeting in the simple management system, and copy-and-paste tools you can use immediately.
And instead of paying Smiths normal $100,000 fee, it’s currently on offer for just $997 $497 at Early To Rise University.
If your business has gotten out of your control, and you don’t have any spare hours to throw at your problems, using Smith’s simple management system is a short-cut to the next level. This on-demand video training will give you a grip on your business and give you back your time - and your life.
It’s Time You Got Back To Owning A Profitable, Frustration-Free Back
Clients of Smith have flown in from around the world to learn his simple management system, even coming from as far away as Medellin, Bangkok, and London.
Their results include:
- A retirement services business used the GS&R to improve deal flow by 30%, and reduce the time cost of closing those deals by 70%.
- One publishing client used Quarterly Planning to identify the few critical initiatives that mattered, resulting in quintupling (5x) the customer base in just 24 months.
- A financial products company deployed the Weekly Alignment Meeting, and used it to cut-off a development decision, finding a cheaper, quicker way to test their approach. They saved $140,000 and two and a half months in the process.
- An insurance sales business used the Daily Stand-Up to identify and eliminate the obstacles on their path to double their sales volume in just one year.
- Another publishing client used The War Room to build a single marketing campaign that went on to generate 65,000 new customers in a year — and at a profit (almost unheard of in their industry)
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