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About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Influential Marketing Group
ISBN-10
1646870662
ISBN-13
9781646870660
eBay Product ID (ePID)
21050105746
Product Key Features
Book Title
Free Time : Lose the Busywork, Love Your Business
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2022
Topic
Time Management, General, Small Business, Workplace Culture
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Business & Economics
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"A practical, commonsense guide for business leaders and beyond." -- Booklist An invigorating and informative time-management manual. -- Kirkus Reviews, "A practical, commonsense guide for business leaders and beyond." -- Booklist "An invigorating and informative time-management manual." -- Kirkus Reviews, A comprehensive efficiency guide for solo entrepreneurs and small-business owners. Business owner/podcaster Blake, author of the career-development book Pivot (2016), makes a convincing case for working smarter, not harder, in a book centered around a compelling question: "How can we earn twice as much in half the time, with ease and joy, while serving the highest good?" When she set out to build her own business after working at Google, Blake faced the typical challenges of self-employment, but instead of succumbing to income deficiencies and overwork, she restructured her business based on her emerging belief that "business stress is a systems problem." That belief is effectively the platform for this book, because Blake intelligently demonstrates how her own system--the "Free Time Framework"--can facilitate business success and also free up time. Its three stages ("Align, Design, Assign") provide a natural structure for the book itself, whose three parts describe the stages in detail. Clearly, Blake understands the power of three, as each section is further subdivided into three overarching chapter concepts; for example, "Align" asserts that a business project must line up with one's "Values," be compatible with how one focuses one's "Energy," and draw on one's "Strengths." At times, the book seems a bit too tightly organized, but Blake makes it work by weaving together short, engaging chapters that are chock full of relevant examples and useful sidebars. Particularly helpful are the initial overviews of each subsection and the concluding chapter recaps. The book's content is substantive, and each part delves deeply into its subject matter. Blake's suggestions always reinforce agility and efficiency. In Part 1 ("Align"), the author introduces one of her core principles: "Each time you repeat a task, take one step toward automating it," which she discusses further in Part 2. Other worthwhile ideas in Part 1 include setting "purposeful intentions," employing strategies for overcoming business bottlenecks, and learning how to "embrace imperfection." Part 2 ("Design") addresses how to establish and measure "ideal outcomes" and the potential impact of a project and how to design an efficient process. "Serendipity as Business Strategy" is an especially intriguing chapter, and a later sidebar, "Stop Sailing the Sea of Shiny Shoulds," shares the story of Blake's and another entrepreneur's social media hiatuses and the positive effects they had on their businesses. Other concepts in this part, such as Blake's "deep work" windows, will surely resonate with overburdened business owners. The primary focus of Part 3 ("Assign") is delegation--arguably one of an entrepreneur's biggest challenges. Here, Blake elegantly describes how to extricate oneself from being the "Chief Everything Officer" and how to build a "Delightfully Tiny Team." She also covers several other useful techniques and tactics for maximizing time efficiency, such as building a task management system. All three parts of the book are well written, applicable, and actionable. Stylistically, Blake is a master of alliteration and rhyming; she's also adept at employing numbered and bulleted lists. Overall, she delivers an entertaining, instructive reading experience. An invigorating and informative time-management manual. -- Kirkus Reviews
Dewey Decimal
650.11
Synopsis
WINNER OF SIX PUBLISHING AWARDS, including Pencraft Literary Excellence for Non-Fiction Business/Finance, American Bookfest Award in Entrepreneurship & Small Business, International Book Awards finalist, and NYC Big Book Award winner. "A brilliant, insightful read." --MORI TAHERIPOUR, author of Bring Yourself "This book is a revelation--a detailed road map for building a business that fulfills you and serves the world, leaving anxiety and burnout behind. Jenny Blake's advice is both grounded and inspiring, and always connected to life as it is actually lived, at the human scale." --OLIVER BURKEMAN, author of The Antidote and Four Thousand Weeks "Wildly, wildly helpful. A chill, introvert-friendly birthday party for business owners." --SARAH YOUNG, author of Expansive Impact Time is not money. Time is life force . Are you consistently doing the work that you and only you can do? Or are you burdened by busywork, the bottleneck blocking your company's profit and potential? Your time is far more precious than money. It is your presence, your memories, your quality of life. As a business owner, you are already paying a risk and pressure tax. For many, growth fueled by added stress is not worth the trade-off. You have an urge to simplify and streamline. Free Time is not about working as little as possible. Nor is it about creating a lifestyle business purely for one's own gain. It is about creating a life-giving business energizing every single person who is a part of it, from the owner to team members, to clients and community. Free Time is about making small investments now to create greater optionality in the future. A more joyful business is within reach. Imagine: Traveling, going off the grid, or handling family emergencies without panicking that everything will fall apart while you are gone. Working 10- to 20-hour weeks, delegating the rest to a motivated, part-time remote team. Answering questions with relief, knowing you don't have to "own" the next steps. Empowering your Delightfully Tiny Team(TM) to answer their own questions before they even have to ask you. Harnessing your creative energy for the strategic projects that excite you most. Jenny Blake, author of the award-winning book Pivot and co-creator of Google's acclaimed Career Guru coaching program , is back with her signature blend of heart-based operating principles and practical tools. This book will teach you how to move from friction to flow through smarter systems and the three-stage Free Time Framework.(TM) Free Time is a playbook to free your mind, time, and team for your best work. This book will teach you and your team to operate efficiently and intuitively, while earning abundantly, so you can make your greatest contribution as a business owner., "A brilliant, insightful read." --MORI TAHERIPOUR, author of Bring Yourself "Hustle is dead. It never worked very well, and now it's burning us out. Jenny Blake is back with a generous, helpful and more caring alternative." --SETH GODIN, author of This is Marketing "Wildly, wildly helpful. A chill, introvert-friendly birthday party for business owners . . . every page is a celebration. Free Time is, quite simply, a joy to read." --SARAH YOUNG, author of Expansive Impact Time is not money. Time is life force. Your time is far more precious than money. It is your presence, your memories, your quality of life. As a business owner, you are already paying a risk and pressure tax. For many, growth fueled by added stress is not worth the trade-off. You have an urge to simplify and streamline instead. Ask yourself: Are you consistently doing the work that you and only you can do? Or are you burdened by busywork, the bottleneck blocking your company's profit and potential? Free Time is not about working as little as possible. Nor is it about creating a lifestyle business purely for one's own gain. It is about creating a life-giving business energizing every single person who is a part of it, from the owner to team members, to clients and community. Free Time is about making small investments now to create greater optionality in the future. A more joyful business is within reach. Imagine: Traveling, going off the grid, or handling family emergencies without panicking that everything will fall apart while you are gone. Working 10- to 20-hour weeks, delegating the rest to a motivated, part-time remote team. Answering questions with relief, knowing you don't have to "own" the next steps. Empowering your Delightfully Tiny Team(tm) to answer their own questions before they even have to ask you. Harnessing your creative energy for the strategic projects that excite you most. Jenny Blake, author of the award-winning book Pivot and co-creator of Google's acclaimed Career Guru coaching program, is back with her signature blend of heart-based operating principles and practical tools. This book will teach you how to move from friction to flow through smarter systems and the three-stage Free Time Framework.(tm) Free Time is a playbook to free your mind, time, and team for your best work. This book will teach you and your team to operate efficiently and intuitively, while earning abundantly, so you can make your greatest contribution as a business owner. Let's dive in., How can we earn twice as much in half the time with joy and ease, while serving the highest good? This playbook from popular author of Pivot and podcaster Jenny Blake has the answer. Your time is far more precious than money. It is your life. It is your energy. It is your presence, your memories, your dreams, your quality of life, the quality of any given moment. If you run your own business, you are already paying a risk and pressure tax. So why keep yourself shackled to outdated work structures that no longer work? Imagine you are: Traveling and going off the grid....without panicking that everything will fall apart while you're gone. Working 10-20 hour weeks and delegating the rest to a remote team who also works efficiently part-time from anywhere in the world. Answering questions for your team with relief, knowing you don't have to "own" the reply or next steps. Empowering your team to answer their own questions before they even have to ask you, through proactive problem-solving, shared philosophy, solid systems, and clear documentation. Taking care of family members and emergencies without adding tremendous stress during your time of need, comforted by knowing your team has your back. Free to work strategically on your business and big, new creative projects, not just in the business delivering services. Free Time is a philosophy and a verb. Free Time isn't about not working, it's about working on what most brings you alive--the work that you and only you can do. The new formula for success on your own terms? Love + Systems = Freedom. Heart-based business goes beyond an obsession with money, metrics, and the bottom line. The "more more more" trap is easy to fall into, and exhausting. Heart-based business is about delivering excellence in our work with humility, holding a belief that a rising tide lifts all boats. It means creating as much good as we can in the world with authenticity and integrity. This book is for you if you already run a team, or know you need to create one--and you know that it could work better than it does through shared principles of how we work. This book will provide structure that will help you experience greater ease, joy, and revenue. If you are here to free your mind, time, and team to do more great work that lights you up, while earning abundantly and serving the highest good for all involved, then you are in the right place.
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