The Replaceable Founder with Ari Meisel

We can get locked on the need to be needed, to
feel important and indispensable… and without even realizing it.
 


How about challenging that mindset? Moving to the notion
that you seek to make yourself replaceable. That there can be an
even better way of doing things, one that saves you time, energy,
and ultimately grows your business even with your absence. 


Ari Meisel helps entrepreneurs become replaceable so
their business can grow without them. 


In this episode, Ari challenges our conventional way of thinking.
That there is always a different way of doing things that work
and that you just have to be willing to do and try it. 


What you will learn from this episode: 


Learn how to create a documented system and process within
the organization that allows for transparency to avoid
disruptions 

Find out the whole methodology of less doing which is about
optimization, automation, and outsourcing 

Find out the tactics you are already using in your personal
lives that works just as well in your business to keep on winning
every time 



"The whole methodology of less doing is based on OAO. It's
optimize, automate, outsource, in that order."  


- Ari Meisel 


Topics Covered:


01:07 - What makes his bio unique, brief, and concise? 


01:44 - Get out of your way! 


02:47 - Teaching the mindset of a leader that is
replaceable 


04:47 - Many companies are not doing communication
effectively 


05:37 - What is an asynchronous communication  


07:19 - The sub-areas of communication that one needs to be
dealing within the organization 


10:05 - How the methodology of less doing works 


11:48 - What it means to go automated and what are the basics of
automation 


12:54 - The value in outsourcing and delegation 


14:29 - How to do things better? Get your FREE resource at
less.do/facebook 


15:05 - Are there any situations where you're not
replaceable? 


16:41 - One thing he does with his business that proves his idea
of a replaceable founder that works 


Key Takeaways:


"The truth is that being irreplaceable makes you stuck. If you
can't be replaced, you can't be promoted, and the entrepreneurs
that I work with, have the freedom to leave the business if they
so choose, go out, explore, learn, and then contribute those back
into the business and the business doesn't crumble in their
absence."  


"A lot of it is a mindset. I don't mean mindset in terms of like,
you are important, and you are special. No, it's really just
about like the way that we approach the ownership that we have
over the work that we do. And ultimately, how much we can empower
the people that we work with." 


"Unfortunately, you have so many people who work in, whether or
not they work in an industry that has a history, but it's worse
when people are in an industry that has a culture -- generational
way of doing things. And then they can't see that there might be
another way. It's just we do it because that's how we've always
done it." 


"The majority of communication nowadays should be done
asynchronously. So, I say something when I want, whether it's
voice, pictures, text, doesn't matter. And you receive it when
you want and responding, 'Hi.' Now that could be using WhatsApp
or Slack or even email, but truly treating it as an asynchronous
means of communication." 


"And to do that [documenting systems and processes] is not to
devalue the person who was holding on to them, it is to release
them to be replaced up, not out of business." 


Resources:


How to do things better? Get your FREE resource at
less.do/facebook 



Connect with Ari Meisel:


Website: https://lessdoing.com/ 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lessdoing/ 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/arimeisel/ 

LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/productivity-coach-entrepreneur/