Putting profit first isn’t just a financial tactic, it’s a mindset shift that helps entrepreneurs build businesses that thrive without burnout. Celebrated author and small business advocate Mike Michalowicz shares how flipping traditional business thinking on its head can lead to lasting success. Mike built and lost multimillion-dollar businesses before discovering the frameworks that now help millions of founders avoid burnout and build sustainable companies. 

He breaks down how to identify your business’s most critical function to creating a team that thinks and acts like owners. He introduces concepts like the Queen Bee role, the Business Priority Pyramid, and the power of psychological ownership, while driving home his mission to eradicate entrepreneurial poverty. 

Takeaways  

• Entrepreneurial poverty is widespread and avoidable with the right systems and mindset. 
• The Queen Bee role is the one business activity that must always function. 
• Clockwork helps founders design businesses that run smoothly without their constant involvement. 
• Psychological ownership inspires teams to act like owners without legal equity. 
• Most entrepreneurs fix the wrong problems because they don’t follow a clear hierarchy. 
• A better business supports both personal goals and sustainable, long-term profitability. 
• Simplifying entrepreneurship makes freedom, impact and profit achievable for more business owners. 

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Mike’s books
Profit First https://amzn.to/46hE4JB
Clockwork https://amzn.to/46g8ImC
All In: How Great Leaders Build Unstoppable Teams  https://amzn.to/3TSTnRE 
The Pumpkin Plan https://amzn.to/4kN1ZE7
Get Different: Marketing That Can't Be Ignored!   https://amzn.to/3IXfYtN
Surge: Time the Marketplace, Ride the Wave of Consumer Demand, and Become Your Industry's Big Kahuna https://amzn.to/4kSgneC
Fix This Next https://amzn.to/417zJ8e
The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur https://amzn.to/3TTnsAr
The Recession Response https://amzn.to/40xAGqm 

Book recommended
Reset by Dan Heath https://amzn.asia/d/9rBvPHe
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