Come Up for Air: How Teams Can Leverage Systems and Tools to Stop Drowning in Work

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You’ll learn the proven empirical strategies from someone who not only turned his company around when it was on the verge of bankruptcy, but has also helped thousands of organizations around the world become more efficient and leverage the right systems and tools for explosive growth. Come Up for Air is the employee manual you never received. With laundry. If you take it out of the dryer, you can spend five, seven minutes putting it all up in, uh, in your closet and in the drawers, and then you’ve got it for the rest of the week. Here, you do a task, you have to stop. And then you have to go and file the task away. You do a task, and then you have to go and figure out where does it go to write it, where do you go to write out how you did it? Andrew: Okay, but I still wanna understand the evolution of the business. Evolution of the business was a marketplace of virtual assistance, then an organized collection of virtual assistance. Then it’s you systemizing your business, then you systemizing other people’s businesses. Then it’s your team systemizing other people’s businesses. And so I went off and developed this scheduling tool. So it’s, I’ve always been passionate about productivity and saving time. And during that journey, virtual, which at that time was one of the biggest virtual assistant companies and we’re, we’re mutual friends with the old, old former founder. Um, they announced bankruptcy one day and I was having dinner with my ex-business partner. Andrew: I love hearing that. And then we got to connect at a conference in Bali, which was running remote. And I forgot this. You reminded me. I kept asking you questions about Asana because we were using it to, to organize ourselves. You asked me. I eventually switched to base camp for project management

The end of the book is pretty downbeat and this tone characterises the whole book and therefore might not be to everyone's taste. I loved it. I've already bought Orwell's ' Keep the Aspidistra Flying' which I will read soon. If you like any of the books I list at the start of this review then I'm confident you'd enjoy this book too. Bowling is wondering what to do with a modest sum of money that he has won on a horserace and which he has concealed from his wife and family. Much later (part III), he and his wife attend a Left Book Club meeting where he is horrified by the hate shown by the anti-fascist speaker and bemused by the Marxist ramblings of the communists who have participated in the meeting. Fed up with this, he seeks his friend Old Porteous, the retired schoolmaster. He usually enjoys Porteous' company, but on this occasion, his dry, dead classics make Bowling even more depressed. Researchers are unsure of whether or not whales swallow large amounts of water when they engulf their food due to the high concentration of salt in the salt water, however some species are known to expel the excess water by pushing it out of their mouth with their tongue, while simultaneously keeping their food trapped inside the baleen plates, so it quite possible that much of the water whales engulf comes from the water contents of the food they swallow rather than being consumed directly, since much of their food contains water within its body. If a human were to try and consume food underwater there is a chance that their nostrils or air passage would open up causing their lungs to take in water. The story follows George Bowling, a 45-year-old husband, father, and insurance salesman, who foresees World War II and attempts to recapture idyllic childhood innocence and escape his dreary life by returning to Lower Binfield, his birthplace. The novel is comical and pessimistic, with its views that (a) speculative builders, commercialism, and capitalism are killing the best of rural England, and (b) his country is facing the sinister appearance of new, external national threats.According to some researchers whales are also able to use up to 90% of the oxygen they inhale as compared to humans that are only able to use around 15% of the oxygen they inhale. Some species can only hold their breath for only a few minutes before resurfacing for air while other whales can hold their breath for up to 90 minutes or more. It’s, it’s a network effect. And so before you knew it, every time we kind of, oh, we need more bandwidth in this area rather than trying to find a way to incentivize people to work more hours. Cuz all these people were contractors. We just kept hiring and hiring and hiring. So we were paying money to recruit, to onboard and then just all the overhead of managing a large team was, was crazy. Uncle Ezekiel is a shop owner with quite liberal beliefs, being a ' little Englander'. He kept an assortment of caged birds inside his shop as decoration. Most turtles that are primarily land creatures only breathe through the nares method. However, there are certain species that can absorb oxygen through other methods. These sort of turtles are often underwater for long periods of time and sometimes hibernate during the winter.

We can almost smell the grass and nature on a summer’s day while fishing, and the sweet aroma of the candy George and his friends loved to buy. This is a lovingly detailed picture of a world long gone; of a world which was disappearing by the time George Bowling was sharing his recollections, in 1938. This second part is a lengthy exposition which feels so authentic and drawn from life, that once more we wonder about the two Georges. How did George Orwell, famous for his keen eye and exceptional journalism, come to write such a different piece? For this, we need to look at his life up to that point. Um, I knew that we would be able to turn it around and I could see kind of the path, but at the time of him, him leaving, you know, there was a high chance we were going to go bankrupt. And so in the forthcoming months, we lose 40% of clients. Um, I’m cashing out my 401k, my dad’s taking a loan on a house to loan US money Joe Bowling is George's elder brother. He was not intellectual, and, according to George 'therefore he had a slight proficiency in mechanics'. He never did any sizeable amount of work and worked for his dad as an 'errand boy'. One day when George was younger, Joe stole all the money from the shop till. He was said to have always wanted to emigrate to America, and was never mentioned again. How should you think about when to spin up a channel and best practice of naming conventions? I promise you, you could start Microsoft Teams tomorrow and be up and running in a day. Because turtles need air to survive, all species can drown. This includes aquatic turtles, such as sea turtles. This is why all turtle owners must have a basking spot for the turtle to access. Without proper access to air and land, turtles will drown and eventually die.

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For those who are seeing my name for the first time, I’ve been an avid Asana user (and raving fan) for many years. My company, Leverage, is an operational efficiency consulting and training firm—and as Asana-certified partners, we’ve helped hundreds of companies implement and optimize Asana. In fact, you’ve probably seen members of my team active on these forums! Unlike fish these marine mammals are not equipped with gills, which fish and other aquatic animals use to extract oxygen from water; Instead whales need to rise to the surface of the water to inhale and exhale oxygen through their blowholes. Striking research showing the immense complexity of ordinary thought and revealing the identities of the gatekeepers in our minds. If we didn’t have an S O p, I would really make a best effort to try to never have to figure that out again. And I’ve instilled that in the culture even today. You know, where I say to people, look, I’m happy to stop what I’m doing for the most part. Not in every situation, but I’m happy to stop and invest the time with you to cr to help co-create the s o p or the process.

How do you, what’s our best practices for delivering this service to a client? Right? So processes and SOPs are everywhere in a business from how to do payroll, how to onboard a client, how to onboard a team member, how to deliver a business efficiency roadmap. And the more you can systematize things and have a structured way of doing things, the more consistent the client experiences, the fewer errors there are. So you have to use judgment and it’s a function of kind of the importance of finding that document in the future. You know, not everything. Not everything is worth the same in terms of the impact if you can’t find it. So if something’s really critical, it really needs to get done, it’s gonna make a big stink in your business. Andrew: Okay. So it’s that kind of thing that allowed you to turn the business around from losing money to making money. It feels like that’s overly simplistic. No. But even if I could, it’s a lot of work to make it do that. I could see you rolling your eyes as I’m talking Origami is created by Y Combinator founders who created the Y Combinator alumni Dow called Orange, and they said, you know what? Let’s create origami and we’ll, we’ll help build other DAOs. And I decided I wanted to do a podcast with them. Started it without even asking their permission. I just wanted to to know more about this space, and then I started working with them on it.But then from there, so then we knew there’s, there’s dozens of similar mastermind groups. So then we just started going to all these groups doing the same kind of talk. And before you knew it, we just grew, we, we got ahead of our skis and we were growing at 20% a month, new clients, but we had 15% churn. One of a company, you know, you have to be thinking about processes. And again, it helps to minimize error of something happening, minimize error of someone leaving. It helps to make sure that you have consistency, you can integrate it. You mention Zapier, you can integrate these tools with Zapier and start automating steps. You have to be professional, you have to be able to analyze a room and be able to, um, the change management with this stuff, which we haven’t really spoken about, is one of the hardest pieces of. You know when you tell someone, Hey, we want you to use this tool differently, or We want you to stop doing it this way and use this new tool. Andrew: I didn’t take it in school. I wish they would’ve taught it to us. I got an app that taught me how to do it and I sat myself down and there’s something very satisfying about being able to make progress and typing. And you’re right. I see people with their two finger typings or, or four fingers or whatever weird thing.