Free Resources | The Business Owner's Guide to Freedom

You finished the book

Now Here Are The Tools.

Ten worksheets and calculators, drawn straight from the chapters you just read. The same ones Steve used at Badger Industries. All of them free, all of them yours to share with your team.

The Business Owner's Guide to Freedom

Where you are right now

Every Business Sits On One Of Five Steps

Each resource below is tagged to the step it belongs to, so you can start with the one that matches where you actually are rather than working through all ten in order.

The 5 Steps to Freedom with all 21 Silver Bullets

What you are getting

The Ten Resources

Seven are printable worksheets. Three are working spreadsheets that calculate as you type.

01
Silver Bullet Scorecard PDF · 5 pages  ·  Creation

Rate your business on all 21 Silver Bullets, with a written description of what a 1 and a 5 actually look like. Wherever you score lowest is where your next gain is hiding.

02
Profit Equation Worksheet Excel  ·  Chaos

Change one lever on paper and watch the bottom line move, before you spend anything. Maps all 21 Silver Bullets to the five levers each one drives.

03
Price Increase Calculator Excel  ·  Chaos

How many customers you can afford to lose before a price rise costs you money. The answer is almost always far more than owners expect.

04
Cost of a Mis-Hire Worksheet Excel  ·  Control

What the person who did not work out actually cost you, and what that is costing you every year you leave the hiring process alone.

05
Time Study and Matrix PDF · 3 pages  ·  Prosperity

Where your week actually went, sorted into the four quadrants, plus a default calendar to rebuild it around the work that matters.

06
Value / Fun Matrix and Apprenticeship Plan PDF · 2 pages  ·  Freedom

Sort every task by how much value it adds and how much you enjoy it, then hand the right ones over using the four-step apprenticeship process.

07
Strategic Plan PDF · 2 pages  ·  Creation

All nine sections, from SWOT to quarterly Rocks, laid out as pre-work so everyone in the room arrives having thought about it.

08
Waste Worksheet PDF · 2 pages  ·  Prosperity

Walk one process and record the seven types of waste, then score every countermeasure on ease and impact so you fix the right ones first.

09
Org Chart and Job Description PDF · 2 pages  ·  Freedom

Draw the business rather than the people, then write a description for every box. One name in two boxes is why you cannot take a holiday.

10
Vision Book PDF · 2 pages  ·  Personal

The one that is not about the business. Six questions about why you own it, and what you want the whole thing to have been for.

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