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Metronomics: One United System to Grow Up Your Team, Company, and Life
As a business leader, you’ve read dozens of books by the top thought leaders, learning from their research, principles, and tools. Each book dives deep into a specific area of expertise—strategy, execution, cash, people, culture, and leadership. All share powerful concepts on what to do to grow your business. But how do you efficiently unite these tools into a regimen that works for not just one specific area of your business, but for your entire team, company, and life? Metronomics unites top business thought leadership with over twenty years of proven practical experience. The outcome is a prescriptive progressive growth system for every business. In this book, you’ll learn how to build a high-performing business team that achieves superior results with ease, speed, and confidence. You’ll learn the practical progression that ensures your team is fiercely connected to your strategic execution system. No matter what level you and your team are at right now, Metronomics will meet you where you are—and grow with you to the next level and beyond. The best-kept business secret for the past twenty years, Metronomics will allow your company to win your business Olympics every year, and as a leader, it will set you free.
328 pages, Paperback
Published June 10, 2021
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March 31, 2026
Most entrepreneurs have never heard about business operating systems. Many entrepreneurs need them desperately to help them move from working IN their business, to working ON their business. Metronomics by Shannon Susko, is one of the leading operating systems for running a company, alongside EOS, Scaling Up, and Bloom Growth. Metronomics stands out for one reason above all - the clarity it brings to the organization.
At the heart of Metronomics is the 3HAG - the 3 Year Highly Achievable Goal - a framework that takes a complex company strategy and makes it clear and simple enough for the whole team to understand and execute against. The 3HAG is supported by a set of visual maps that bring the strategy to life: the Attribution Framework, which forces you to identify what your company does best that truly matters to your core customer; the Activity Fit Map, where you draw out your 3-5 differentiating activities; the Cash Conversion Cycle Map, which draws a picture of your internal flow from leads all the way to cash in the bank; and the Key Function Flow Map that maps the business KPIs and how they work together.
The book is structured as a progressive, year-by-year system - with a prescriptive quarterly and annual cadence that tells you exactly what to do and when. It builds on the thinking of management greats like Jim Collins, Patrick Lencioni, Michael Porter, and Brad Smart, and weaves them into seven interconnected systems covering culture, cohesion, strategy, execution, cash, people, and coaching.
A word of caution: the book is dense, and it requires commitment - it's an implementor's manual rather than a walkthrough. Highly recommended for CEOs that want to scale their business. For a lighter version, the author walks through the core Metronomics frameworks on her YouTube channel.
At the heart of Metronomics is the 3HAG - the 3 Year Highly Achievable Goal - a framework that takes a complex company strategy and makes it clear and simple enough for the whole team to understand and execute against. The 3HAG is supported by a set of visual maps that bring the strategy to life: the Attribution Framework, which forces you to identify what your company does best that truly matters to your core customer; the Activity Fit Map, where you draw out your 3-5 differentiating activities; the Cash Conversion Cycle Map, which draws a picture of your internal flow from leads all the way to cash in the bank; and the Key Function Flow Map that maps the business KPIs and how they work together.
The book is structured as a progressive, year-by-year system - with a prescriptive quarterly and annual cadence that tells you exactly what to do and when. It builds on the thinking of management greats like Jim Collins, Patrick Lencioni, Michael Porter, and Brad Smart, and weaves them into seven interconnected systems covering culture, cohesion, strategy, execution, cash, people, and coaching.
A word of caution: the book is dense, and it requires commitment - it's an implementor's manual rather than a walkthrough. Highly recommended for CEOs that want to scale their business. For a lighter version, the author walks through the core Metronomics frameworks on her YouTube channel.
September 10, 2021
I was once told that I should read less books not more. I was aghast. Being someone who places great value and always looking out for the next book release. I was later to realise what, this prominent leader of an international training company, was wistfully saying.
You should master first the ideas from the book you just finished before moving on to the next one looking for the silver bullet.
Serial entrepreneur Shannon Susko's latest book, Metronomics is certainly one that qualifies here. We have all read many books, maybe hundreds, that tell us what we should do, but few if any give us a prescriptive step by step of how we might do it. One of Canada's top business thinkers ( Shannon belongs to the top 4o under 4o in her country) , takes us through from start up to multi-million Atlasian size companies.
Shannon has done what others haven't. Begun 3 start ups and successfully exited 2 ( the third she continues to head up). What's more she also has done a great service to us mere mortals of documenting her trials and tribulations of scaling her organizations. So we won't go through the same heartache and heartbreak.
Her early success was greatly aided by the guru of mid market size companies Verne Harnish, author of Rockefeller Habits and Scaling Up. So the philosophies and the methodology are compatible, with her addition of originality.
Metronomics all but guarantees you will successfully grow your business when followed. Shannon' Compound Growth System recommends you do it in conjunction with a mentor and/or coach to ensure accountability and consistency.
Shannon also respectfully acknowledges those though leaders who have been instrumental in her journey and encourages people to blend the likes of Collins, Lencione, Harnish and Stack for maximum success.
This is one ( from my reading of hundreds) that will sit in my best ever books that have had an effect on me. If you are dedicated to your 10x growth, I strongly propose you take this generously shared and documented road to business success.
You should master first the ideas from the book you just finished before moving on to the next one looking for the silver bullet.
Serial entrepreneur Shannon Susko's latest book, Metronomics is certainly one that qualifies here. We have all read many books, maybe hundreds, that tell us what we should do, but few if any give us a prescriptive step by step of how we might do it. One of Canada's top business thinkers ( Shannon belongs to the top 4o under 4o in her country) , takes us through from start up to multi-million Atlasian size companies.
Shannon has done what others haven't. Begun 3 start ups and successfully exited 2 ( the third she continues to head up). What's more she also has done a great service to us mere mortals of documenting her trials and tribulations of scaling her organizations. So we won't go through the same heartache and heartbreak.
Her early success was greatly aided by the guru of mid market size companies Verne Harnish, author of Rockefeller Habits and Scaling Up. So the philosophies and the methodology are compatible, with her addition of originality.
Metronomics all but guarantees you will successfully grow your business when followed. Shannon' Compound Growth System recommends you do it in conjunction with a mentor and/or coach to ensure accountability and consistency.
Shannon also respectfully acknowledges those though leaders who have been instrumental in her journey and encourages people to blend the likes of Collins, Lencione, Harnish and Stack for maximum success.
This is one ( from my reading of hundreds) that will sit in my best ever books that have had an effect on me. If you are dedicated to your 10x growth, I strongly propose you take this generously shared and documented road to business success.
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April 19, 2025
Very similar to EOS but more strategy focused, less on issues. I will keep to reference back to.
My rating system is as follows:
1 - Stopped reading before completing as didn't intrigue me enough (therefore rating incomplete)
2 - Completed reading but did not enjoy
3 - Enjoyed but not enough to want to keep on bookshelf
4 - Enjoyed and want to keep on bookshelf
5 - I'm actively telling people how great this book is!
My rating system is as follows:
1 - Stopped reading before completing as didn't intrigue me enough (therefore rating incomplete)
2 - Completed reading but did not enjoy
3 - Enjoyed but not enough to want to keep on bookshelf
4 - Enjoyed and want to keep on bookshelf
5 - I'm actively telling people how great this book is!
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