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404. Upgrading Your Business's Operating System with Bradley Hamner

Sep 23, 2024

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Bradley Hamner, Founder and CEO of BlueprintOS, shares his journey from being a workaholic entrepreneur to becoming the architect of his business. He emphasizes the importance of creating systems and processes to upgrade the operating system of a business.

Bradley discusses the common belief that entrepreneurs must do everything themselves and highlights the need to train and delegate to a team. He also emphasizes the mindset, skillset, and toolset required to transition from being the rainmaker to the architect of a business.

Becoming the architect of your business involves five milestones: having a business generating over a million dollars in revenue, achieving a ratio of 40 or above between year-over-year growth and profitability, taking 12 weeks off in a year, having an executive assistant to buy back your time, and installing an operating system that exists independently of you.

Working on your business, not just in it, is crucial for growth. Standardizing processes and documents in the business is important for creating a culture of design and intentionality. Implementing ideas is key to creating real change.

Key Takeaways

Upgrade the operating system of your business by creating systems and processes.
Train and delegate to a team to avoid being the bottleneck in your business.
Adopt the mindset of an architect and design the systems that will run your business.
Acquire the necessary skills and tools to effectively manage and scale your business.
Working on your business, not just in it, is essential for growth and success.
Standardizing processes and documents in the business creates a culture of design and intentionality.
Implementing ideas and taking action is crucial for creating real change in your business.

About Bradley Hamner

Bradley started his first business in 2009 with no customers, no leads, and very little cash but he did have a desire to win and succeed. After working around the clock for 5 years, Bradley had a health scare in his 30s. Knowing something had to change, he focused on building his leadership first, and then he began "architecting" his business to work for him.

This led him to designing the ultimate operating system for business owners - BlueprintOS. This framework has empowered business owners to move successfully from rainmaker to architect in their business.

Now, Bradley is a Business Growth Coach, certified Value Builder, and host of the Above The Business Podcast. Each week, he shows other entrepreneurs & business owners how to install the systems, processes, and routines their business needs to grow and scale.

The ultimate outcome? Business owners have a successful business that creates the freedom and flexibility they desired from the start.

In This Episode

[00:00] Welcome to the show!
[06:48] Meet Bradley Hamner
[07:58] BluePrintOS
[11:11] The Architect of Your Business
[27:36] The Five Milestones
[32:48] On, In, And Above
[49:52] Connect with Bradley
[51:03] Outro

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"The business got bigger to the point to where then the business got bigger than me and started to sling me around." - Bradley Hamner

"What I was really doing is I was transitioning myself from being the rainmaker to where like it was all dependent upon me to really I started to become the architect of the business." - Bradley

"It's really about working on your business and not just in your business." - Ryan Koral

"There are times that we need to get above the business. And I would even share with someone that listening to a podcast, going to a conference as an example, going to a strategic coach, those are times I wasn't working on that business. I was working above my business." - Bradley