Don't leave it til disaster to find out your systems don't work.

Don't leave it until a disaster to find out that your systems don't work.

What I want you to do is check out behind me, I'm down at the beach.

And what we've got is just a huge amount of foam coming off the ocean.

And the reason for that is that all of the rain that we've had here in the Northern Rivers, so we're about two hours south of Brisbane, Brisbane is flooded, Lismore is about 45 minutes from here is flooded, He was flooded so bad like that Miss McDonald sign almost went under, in the middle of 12 meters is tall, it's so tall.

But what's been interested in is just seeing how things that people were expecting to work haven't worked, because there's been so much strain on the system, that phone calls to the police phone calls to the State Emergency Service.

We're just being answered.

And people can tell, look, we can't get to you.

We can't get to you.

One story I heard I don't know if it's true, but they were told Look, just climb up the tallest tree and tie your kids to the tree, the tree will be higher than the flow levels will get you and we can like whoa, imagine being that person receiving that information.

It's like well, okay, that is not what you'd hope.

But in these overwhelming catastrophes, this is not the time to find out that systems don't work.

And they know about this, I'm sure they know that if they have, you know, X number of phone calls, let's say it's more than 500 phone calls now, or 5000 phone calls.

Now, whatever that number is, then the system will be exceeded and some people will not be able to get help.

This is the same in your business.

Like in your business, how your systems work, when everything's working well is one thing.

But as you start to run into problems, then you get to find out how well you play systems.

And if you don't do that, well, I feel like yeah, I need everything to work perfectly in order for us to run our systems.

And as soon as things start going wrong, then we're in trouble, then that's not such a great thing to be you want your systems to be robust.

You want your systems adaptable, you want them to be flexible, you want them to be able to be so strong that they can withhold disaster and still keep working that you can lose half your workforce and still come back and work.

This is important.

And this comes down to the structural integrity of your systems.

If your systems are all designed in different ways, if they're all set up by different people, then there will not be much robustness to those systems running in your business.

Ideally, you want them all set up the same way.

And that way you can do several things.

And even when the pressure is on things going wrong, your teams know how to run the systems of the business.

If you allow people just to create whatever they want, they will invariably come up with many multitude of ways of doing things.

This is not that good.

This is not that good.

What you want is a way of having your systems work that no matter what is going on, they work.

And let me give you a hint, there are two things that the systems must do.

One is they must document the procedures, like what's the work of the system, what needs to be done.

And second, you got to track what the results are.

Now some of those results are not going to be the final results.

They might just be intermediate results, but you still want to track them on the way to getting those final results that you get those two things dialed in.

You track those two things.

Now you got systems that are adaptable and flexible and hold up under stress and strain.

So when you run into a disaster situation, and this isn't even a disaster situation, this is just a lot of flotsam on the beach, but out there, out there, there's at least some major damage some major carnage that has occurred just from the weather, just from the weather, so a lot of businesses are just not going to make it back.

Because their systems game cannot cope with natural disasters, some will have solid systems games even though they might have a giant mess to clean up.

Once that gets going and go live once they've sorted out the mess then they're back up and running.

And that comes down to one thing, their systems.

That's all I got for you today.

I'm going to go grab some pizza for my kids.

We are having a chill night at home playing some games super excited for this.

Thanks for tuning in today.

Look forward to seeing you.

Next episodes will continue his journey into power systems create results. See you then.