Chris Ducker on Delegating for Tasks, Roles and Team Building
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
Erik Fisher
4.5 • 877 Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2014
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Chris Ducker was working 14-hour days, six days a week, spending very little time with family and working ‘in’ his business, instead of ‘on’ it and was tired in every possible way. He’s come a long way since then, creating the new business Virtual Staff Finder, the New Business Podcast, and his new book – Virtual Freedom: How to Work with Virtual Staff to Buy More Time, Become More Productive, and Build Your Dream Business. He’s also released a podcast series that corresponds to the new book.
In this episode, Chris and Erik cover:
- The false believe that you can fill every role in a growing business
- Super hero syndrome
- Chris’ definition of the word Entrepreneur = To provide answers to questions and solutions to problems
- Being a 16 hour a day, 7 day a week entrepreneur doesn’t make you a more successful entrepreneur.
Chris’s 3 lists:
- The things you hate doing
- The things you can’t do
- The things you shouldn’t be doing
You need to do only the things that you are uniquely qualified to do.—@jaybaerClick To Tweet
If you’re doing things other people on your team can do, you’re robbing them of opportunity.—Jay BaerClick To TweetChris’s rule for email – Never open an email more than once by:
- reply or forward it
- archive it
- delete it
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| 0:00.0 | When you're hiring for your small business, you want to find quality professionals that are right for the role. |
| 0:05.0 | That's why you have to check out LinkedIn Jobs. LinkedIn Jobs has the tools to help you find the right professionals for your team faster and for free. And trust me, I've spent a lot of time |
| 0:15.1 | looking through LinkedIn jobs and by far it has been the easiest way for me to find viable |
| 0:21.2 | candidates fast. |
| 0:22.5 | And LinkedIn isn't just a job board. |
| 0:24.2 | LinkedIn helps you hire professionals |
| 0:25.9 | you can't find anywhere else because even those who aren't |
| 0:28.6 | actively searching for a new job might be open |
| 0:31.0 | to the perfect role that you have. |
| 0:33.0 | In any given month, over 70% of LinkedIn users don't visit other leading job sites. |
| 0:38.0 | So if you're not looking on LinkedIn, you're looking in the wrong place. |
| 0:41.0 | On LinkedIn, 86% of small businesses get qualified |
| 0:45.0 | candidates within 24 hours. Hire professionals like a professional on LinkedIn. |
| 0:50.8 | LinkedIn knows that small businesses are wearing so many hats and might not have the time or resources to hire. |
| 0:55.6 | LinkedIn is constantly finding ways to make the process easier. |
| 0:58.8 | They even just launch a feature that helps you write job descriptions, |
| 1:01.8 | making the process even easier and quicker. |
| 1:04.5 | Post your job for free at LinkedIn.com. |
| 1:06.6 | referral that's LinkedIn.com slash referral to post your job for free. Hello and |
| 1:35.0 | I am your host Eric Fisher and this is the show where we talk to the people |
| 1:42.0 | behind the productivity. |
| 1:43.6 | Don't forget to head over to ready aimfirebook.com to grab my book about making and |
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