The Operating System Show

Everything your business knows walks out at 5pm. You rent it back every morning.

Matt Dixon talks with the founders, COOs, and executives getting their companies to run without every answer living in one person's head. What broke, what they rebuilt, and where the real leverage was.

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Episodes

Episode 15October 6, 202641 min

Stop Hiring Only A Players

Craig Wahl on Building a Leadership Team That Scales

Episode 14September 29, 202634 min

Hit Every Metric, Missed the Number

Chris Mader on Running EOS Inside His Own Business

Episode 13September 25, 202640 min

You Can't Scale Complexity

Derek Fredrickson on What a Fractional COO Actually Builds

Episode 12September 16, 202629 min

600 Clients on a Team of 16

David Salerno on Why He Will Not Hire to Fix a Problem

Episode 11September 10, 202632 min

Your Team Says They Are at 140% Capacity

Kati Peterman on What a Fractional Operator Actually Fixes

Episode 10September 8, 202631 min

Saying No Is Twice as Safe as Saying Yes

JL Heather on the Can't Culture Killing Your Best Ideas

Episode 9September 3, 202636 min

73% Faster With the Same Team

Steve Schroeder on the Invisible Factory Inside Your Business

Episode 8September 1, 202638 min

The AI Flagged Your Best Engineer for Cuts

Alisa Reznik on Why People Decisions Stay Human

Episode 7August 27, 202638 min

85% of Your Calls Don't Need a Human

Timothy Bramlett on Building an AI Receptionist

Episode 6August 25, 202631 min

Irritation Is Operational Data

Gwen Taniguchi on Getting Your Business Ready to Sell

Episode 5August 18, 202642 min

They Don't Want to Buy Your Job

Peter Boolkah on What Founder Dependency Costs at Exit

Episode 4August 11, 202627 min

30 Points of Engagement in Six Hours

Omar L. Harris on Culture Operating Systems

Episode 3August 4, 202629 min

From 7 to 150 People

How Sean Griffith Scaled SimpleTexting and Now Ships Features Overnight with AI

Episode 2July 28, 202631 min

Why 95% of AI Pilots Fail and How to Build a Business You Can Sell

with Ted Wolf

Episode 1July 21, 202627 min

How to Build a Business That Runs Without You

with David Hori

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