The Optional Owner Scorecard — Christopher Schwab

Most owners can feel how much their business needs them. Very few have measured it. This scorecard measures it against three of the principles I build businesses on: design for absence, plan your own redundancy, and let the business serve the life.

Answer for how things are now, not how they’d be on a good week. There are no trick questions, and the honest answer is the useful one.

How it worksChoose the answer closest to the truth for each question, then tell me where to send your results. You’ll see your score straight away, and I’ll email you a copy with a few places I’d start. I get a copy too, so I can take a look, and if you reply, I’ll answer.

One thing firstThe scorecard needs JavaScript to add up your answers. If it’s switched off, the Owner Independence Ladder’s self-test works without it.

Last step

Where should I send your results?

You’ll see your score as soon as you press the button, and I’ll email you a copy. I get a copy too, so I can look at it with you. Only your name and email are needed. The rest is optional, but it’s what I’ll read most closely.

First name Email Your business, and what it does (optional) Team size (optional) Yearly revenue (optional) Hours you work in a week (optional) Hours you’d choose (optional) If your business no longer needed you, what would you want that to make possible? (optional) If you were gone for thirty days from tomorrow, what would break first? (optional)

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Your answers come to me and no one else. How I handle them.

How optional
are you?

Where should I send your results?

Here’s where you are.

Where I’d start

On running a business
that doesn’t need you.

Where should I send your results?

Here’s where you are.

Where I’d start

On running a businessthat doesn’t need you.

On running a business
that doesn’t need you.