Having an OS for your business is probably one of the first things you should probably think about when you decide on the tech when running a team.
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So I'm about to have a barbecue and I thought I'd get my chair out, sit in front of Chuck the truck - I love that name - and talk to you about having an OS for your business.
Now we all know project management tools - there's Asana, there's ClickUp, there's obviously Basecamp, something I deal with, and they're great as a project management tool.
However, not all of them are great to be able to create an OS for your business.
Now, what I mean by an OS for your business is having everything within one place so there's a single source of truth for everything.
For instance, documentation, SOPs, any kind of documentation that the company needs, that people in the company needs, is actually all in one place.
Now in the past what people used to do is use Google Docs and I don't use Google at all apart from YouTube.
You would have a Google Doc and then you would link it, send it via email, but you don't know where that Doc is unless you ask someone for instance.
Whereas having an OS for your business, having one of these tools, obviously Basecamp, as an OS for your business means that you would have a Basecamp.
A project in Basecamp is called a Basecamp.
Having a Basecamp called HQ and everything company-wide communication is in there, company-wide SOPs are in the document folder, company-wide message board for instance is in there, company-wide everything is in that one HQ so people don't have to ask.
So when you're onboarding a new employee for instance, you would basically say go to the HQ, you would point them where it is and they don't have to download anything, they don't have to ask for a link for anything, it's all in that one Basecamp called HQ within your Basecamp app.
Other tools aren't as great, some of them can do it and it's possible to get around certain limitations that they give you, but with Basecamp they've thoroughly thought out how having an OS for your business can be done within that one tool.
So your project management is in that one tool, your communication is in that one tool, all your SOPs, documentation, chat etc everything is in that one tool and keeping it organised.
I posted a picture with my one, one's called work which is client work, one's called business which is everything to do with my business and one's called personal.
If I do bigger projects that are personal and they're the three areas that I think they call them stacks, I call them areas in my life and it's either work that I'm doing for somebody, it's something to do with my business or it's personal, there is literally nothing else.
If I'm doing work on Chuck the truck and it's a long-term project like I want to rebuild my gearbox it will probably be in the personal one. You get the picture so on and so forth.
So having an OS for your business is ideal for everyone within your team and within your company because you're not clambering over where's the link, where's this file, where's that, it's all in one place.
Hopefully that helps.
I'm gonna go and get ready for barbecue and my cheesecake, I bought some nice cheesecake.
I'll see you in the next one. Have a good one.
Ciao.