#7: How Can You Keep Overhead from Getting Out of Hand?
The StoryBrand Podcast
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4.7 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
A coke machine in the break room or a food truck party for your staff might sound like a fun idea. But the reality is – that's overhead, and it's slowing your business down (and costing you money). In part six of our seven-part series, How Your Business is an Airplane, we're focusing on overhead. Sure, you're going to have some expenses that don't drive crazy revenue, and sometimes that's okay. The answer isn't to cut those expenses altogether – it's to learn this simple formula so you know what's worth your time, and what's holding you back.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Business Made Simple Podcast where we teach you everything you |
| 0:06.2 | need to know to grow a business. |
| 0:07.9 | We also certify the world's best business coaches who can help you implement our framework |
| 0:12.7 | to grow your business. |
| 0:14.1 | On this episode, we're asking the question, how do you keep overhead from getting out |
| 0:17.9 | of control? |
| 0:18.9 | And we know a lot of you out there are overwhelmed by this. |
| 0:21.7 | Which is why today, in part six of our series, how your business is like an airplane, we're |
| 0:26.0 | focusing on the body or your overhead. |
| 0:29.0 | Our host, Donald Miller and co-hosts, Dr. J.J. Peterson and Kula Callahan will help |
| 0:33.7 | put your mind at ease by going through everything you need to do to take control of your overhead. |
| 0:38.9 | Then later on, Don talks one-on-one with Business Made Simple President Doug Kahn, who gives |
| 0:43.3 | his insight on how you can properly navigate difficult decisions you might have to make |
| 0:47.6 | to alleviate intense overhead in your company. |
| 0:50.5 | This is Business Made Simple. |
| 0:52.0 | Okay, so the body of the airplane represents overhead. |
| 1:01.0 | And the biggest reason businesses fail is because their overhead gets too high and they |
| 1:05.6 | don't realize it until it's too late. |
| 1:08.0 | Okay, so let me give you a situation. |
| 1:10.2 | So you and Don walk into different businesses and you have 24 hours to cut as much overhead |
| 1:17.4 | out of their P&L statement as you possibly can. |
| 1:20.1 | What do you do first? |
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