Sound Financial Bites

Michael Michalowicz is the entrepreneur behind three multimillion-dollar companies, the author of Profit First, The Pumpkin Plan, and six other books. Soon, Michael will be releasing his newest book, Clockwork, on August 26. Michael was a former business journalist for The Wall Street Journal and a former business makeover specialist on MSNBC. He also runs his own podcast, The Profit First Podcast. Today, he travels the world as an entrepreneurial advocate helping people take the challenges out of outdated business beliefs and teaching people what to do about it. In this episode, we discuss Michael’s new book, Clockwork, as well as the different stages of opening a business and how to get your business as successful as it can be. Michael compares Maslow's hierarchy for humans to his newfound hierarchy for entrepreneurship; he states the hierarchy of needs for businesses and why. Michael encourages entrepreneurs to shift away from pride, ego, and the things that are destroying them and their businesses. He war