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Stop being your team's walking FAQ
The little known McDonald's Secret
"Hey, quick question..."
If I had a dollar for every time a business owner told me their team starts conversations with those three words, I'd have a lot of dollars.
Your team isn't asking questions because they're lazy or incompetent.
They're asking because your business knowledge lives in the worst possible place: your head.
Every time someone asks "How do we handle this client situation?" or "Where's the template for that?" or "What's our process for...?", that's not a people problem.
That's a systems problem.
The Hidden Cost of Scattered Knowledge
Let's do the math:
5 team members
1 "quick question" per day each
15 minutes per interruption
That's 75 minutes of your day spent being a human help desk
At $200/hour, those "quick questions" cost you $250 per day, $1,250 per week, $65,000 per year.
And that's just YOUR time. It doesn't count:
The time your team spends hunting for information
The mistakes made when processes aren't clear
The opportunities missed while everyone's confused
But here’s a little known McDonald's secret
McDonald's doesn't make the best burgers. They make the most consistent systems.
A 16-year-old can walk into any McDonald's anywhere in the world and produce the exact same Big Mac as someone on the complete other side of the world. Identical results. Because the system is so well-designed that consistency is effortless.
Your business needs the same thing.
Not people who remember everything.
Systems that remember everything for them.
Here's what changes when you systemize your knowledge:
Instead of "Where's the client onboarding checklist?" → They open the system and follow the process
Instead of "How do we price this project?" → The pricing calculator gives them the answer
Instead of "What's our refund policy?" → The policy database has every scenario covered
Your team stops asking. You stop answering. Everyone is more productive and makes more money.
If you want to know what those systems would look like for your own business, this week we're doing free operation audits for business owners who are tired of being their team's walking FAQ.
We'll map out exactly where your knowledge is scattered and show you how to centralize it into systems that work without you.
Reply "Audit" and I’ll send you more details and how to turn your team into a self-operating machine.
No fluff. Just systems.
Chris "The Systemizer" Punt