Why ‘Standard Operating Procedures’ Suck

Founder's Journal

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Entrepreneurship, Careers, Business

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Episode 04: Alex Lieberman (@businessbarista) is disgusted at the phrase “standard operating procedure”. Yet, for lack of a better phrase, SOP is crucial for documenting the necessary steps to completing a process or running a business. Let’s be real, creating SOPs can be tedious. Luckily, Alex has some tips and templates that can help you get started. Links: A Step-By-Step Guide to Making Sops 230523 SOP Template Twitter List Curation SOP - Founders Journal Timestamps: (00:57): Don’t be the sole expert of your business (04:05): A playbook for winning plays (07:50): Resources Send us an email and let us know what you think of the idea! foundersjournal@morningbrew.com #FoundersJournal #Startups #Entrepreneur Listen to Founder’s Journal here: https://link.chtbl.com/OV4W93_W Watch Founder’s Journal here: https://www.youtube.com/@FoundersJournal/ Subscribe to Morning Brew! Sign up for free today: https://bit.ly/morningbrewyt Follow The Brew! Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/morningbrew/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/MorningBrew Tik Tok - https://www.tiktok.com/@morningbrew Follow Alex! Alex Lieberman (@businessbarista) Learn more about Shopify here: https://shopify.com/crazyones Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's up everyone? Welcome back to Founders Journal. First off, if you didn't already hear the announcement from me Founders Journal is back
0:08.4	I am incredibly excited for it and for those of you that don't know Founders Journal is my five to twenty minute
0:15.7	Personal diary made public for the world where I share my stories my learnings and my strategies around my journey as an entrepreneur
0:24.4	Second, I would love to chat with as many of you one-on-one as possible
0:28.2	So shoot me an email to Alex at MorningBrew.com say hi. Hey, Ola. What's up?
0:34.1	Or howdy, and I will respond with something to get the combo going now
0:38.9	Let's talk game plan for this episode today's episode is about one of the most important tools in an entrepreneur's toolkit to scale a business
0:47.7	And also I share some thoughts on why I believe this tool has the worst name on planet Earth
0:53.5	Let's hop into it
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