61: Clockworking with Efficiency + Excellence

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The two concepts of efficiency + excellence can feel like opposing forces. Thankfully, they do not need to be mutually exclusive, and actually can work beautifully to balance each other within your business. That development of each + balance begins with a mindset shift.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On this episode of the Run Like Clockwork Podcast, Erica + Emily from Team RLC talk about the mindset of efficiency + excellence and give tangible action steps you can take to balance the two so that you can improve your business operations and deliver on your big promise to your clients + customers. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Topics Emily + Erica cover in this episode:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The mindset of efficiency</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Two key efficiency principles</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The power of creating false deadlines</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why automation is</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">not</span></em> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">efficiency</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The mindset of excellence</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The difference between excellence and perfectionism</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Two actionable steps you can take for excellence in your business</span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why is it important to improve both efficiency + excellence to work together? Because it doesn’t matter how efficiently you do something if it’s wrong.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Next step solution: identify your current</span> <strong>bottleneck</strong> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">[for an in-depth lo