Navigating Business Success: Mike Michalowicz’s Hierarchy of Business Priorities
Explore Mike Michalowicz’s Hierarchy of Business Priorities to identify and address your company’s most pressing needs effectively.
Identifying the most critical needs in a business and knowing which to tackle first are two common entrepreneurial challenges.
Mike Michalowicz has a solution in his Business Priority Pyramid, an enterprise-oriented troubleshooting tool first introduced in his 2020 book Fix This Next.
It’s played a powerful role in helping businesses prioritize effectively ever since.
That’s why Strategic PM sat down with Mike for a breakdown of how the pyramid’s steps can help businesses strengthen weak links and scale toward success.

Mike Michalowicz
By his 35th birthday MIKE MICHALOWICZ (pronounced mi-‘kal-o-wits) had founded and sold two multi-million dollar companies. Confident that he had the formula to success, he became a small business angel investor… and proceeded to lose his entire fortune. Then he started all over again, driven to find better ways to grow healthy, strong companies. Mike has devoted his life to the research and delivery of innovative, impactful entrepreneurial strategies to you. Mike is the creator of Profit First, which is used by hundreds of thousands of companies across the globe to drive profit. He is the creator of Clockwork, a powerful method to make any business run on automatic. In Fix This Next, Mike details the strategy businesses can use to determine what to do, in what order, to ensure healthy, fast, permanent growth (and avoid debilitating distractions). Get Different will give you the tools to stand out in any market. Mike’s latest book All In shows you how to build unstoppable teams where everyone wins. Today, Mike leads two new multi-million-dollar ventures, as he tests his latest business research for his books. He is a former small business columnist for The Wall Street Journal and business makeover specialist on MSNBC. Mike is a popular main stage keynote speaker on innovative entrepreneurial topics; and is the author of All In, Get Different, Fix This Next, Clockwork, Profit First, Surge, The Pumpkin Plan The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur and My Money Bunnies. Fabled author, Simon Sinek deemed Mike Michalowicz “…the top contender for the patron saint of entrepreneurs.”