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The Handbook: The Operations Podcast — 64 episodes

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Utilization, Scope Creep, and Rev Rec: The Finance Side of Delivery with Rich Brett

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Revenue Up 2x, EBITDA Up 5x: The Operating Model Behind It with Andrew McBarnett

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Cashflow, P&L, and Pricing: What Every Leader Needs to Know with Rich Brett

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3 events in June: Toronto, NYC & online – join me!

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8 Acquisitions: The Ops Lessons Most People Learn Too Late with Jonathan Healey

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Revenue Is Up. Profit Isn't. Here's Why with Rich Brett

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Why Only 13% of Firms Feel Ready to Scale – with Manish Kapur & Rich Brett

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5 ops events. 8 weeks. Zero excuses. RSVP now!

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6 Ops Changes That Took This Business from Scrappy to Scalable – with Alex Bodini

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Why Ops Is Really About Culture (Not Just Process) with Nicky Russell

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Live event: Run like you're looking to sell, 19 March

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From 11% to 43% Net Profit – Fixing the Fundamentals with Robert Patin

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5 AI Guardrails COOs Need to Put in Place Today with Sharon Toerek

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The 8 Systems Every COO Needs to Scale with Jason Swenk

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One Question Before the Break – What Should We Tackle Next?

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Ops Quickie: Fixing the Sales-to-Delivery 'Black Hole'

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Scaling Effort, Not Results? This is your wake-up call – with Michael Wark

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Ops Quickie: AI isn't the threat. Flying blind is.

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How to Run Annual Planning Like a CFO (Even If You’re Not One) with Adam Cooper

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Ops Quickie: PSA vs ERP – Same Same...or Totally Different?

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Beyond Experiments: What It Really Takes to Operationalize AI with Luke Alexander

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Ops Quickie: MCP – the Missing Link Between Ops & AI?

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Becoming Better Ops Leaders: Lessons from Operations Nation

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Ops Quickie: When your stack starts to crack 😬

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Lessons From Scaling $750k to $25m with Lindsey Head

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Ops Quickie: What ERA is your business in? Find out here!

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How to Scale Smarter: Productizing Value with Brian Kessman

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Ops Quickie: Why a PSA ≠ PM Tool

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What 11 Acquisitions Taught Dom Hawes About M&A

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Ops Quickie: What the heck is a PSA?!

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Board-Level Thinking, Sale-Ready Ops – with Sam Wood

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The ops CHEAT CODE: One year of insights condensed with Harv Nagra

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Are you helping or hindering your delivery team? With Galen Low

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Strategic Ops, Unlocked: Manish Kapur’s Workshop Playbook

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Growth Thresholds & Growing Pains with Marcel Petitpas

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Pricing, Profitability & Predictions with Karl Sakas

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Why your tools aren’t talking & what it’s costing you with Ryan Pearcy

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BenchPress 2025: 4 Big Agency Opportunities You Need To Be On Top Of

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How to Get Clients to See You as a Strategic Partner with Max Traylor

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Rethinking performance, pay reviews & career growth with Zoe Blogg

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How to move from tactical to STRATEGIC ops with WPP's Preston Chandler

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Mike Della Porta: How to elevate service delivery for scale

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Managing Gen Z: Challenges, Myths, and the Opportunity with Isobel Camier

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Building a systemized, codified, scalable sales engine with Ryan Hall

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Running your agency like clockwork with Jinny Mitchell-Kent

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How to document and embed best practices that stick with Harv Nagra

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Hire, train and retain like Sarah Brougham

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Amy Hopper: How to build more engaged, high-performing teams

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Richard Brett: What is 'rev rec' & which metrics matter?

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BONUS EP: How can you boost your agency's productivity?

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Trenton Moss: 3 high-impact strategies that redefined my agency

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Dan Timmiss: How to get your agency IT ready for scaling

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Freia Muehlenbein: How to pitch to WIN

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Jenny Plant: Great Sales & Great PM - Can One Person Do It All?

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Julia Vastrik: How to strengthen company culture in the WFH era

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Alfie Wenegieme: How to get better at finance

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Matthew Peng: How to find the right tool for the job

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Ryan McNamara: The REAL purpose of ops: A revenue and growth driver

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Claire Hutchings: Bad agency marketing is an ops problem: let’s fix it

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Claire Quansah: 6 steps to successful change management

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Tyler Caskey: How consolidating tools & automation can transform your agency

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Manish Kapur: Optimize these 4 areas to grow your agency

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Teaser: Hello from Harv

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Agency folks, welcome to The Handbook: Trailer