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What is one percent worth in your business?
Five numbers you already know. Seven levers, each starting at one percent — or one day, where the lever is a clock. Slide any of them and watch what it is worth. Rough figures are fine; the shape is what matters.
Section 01
Your business, as it runs now
Last year’s figures, or your best guess. Nothing here is stored or sent anywhere.
Every year
Four levers that pay for as long as you hold them
Each lever starts at one percent. Slide it. This is profit — it arrives every year you keep the change.
Once
Three levers that put money in the bank one time
Each lever starts at one day. Slide it. This is cash — it comes back once, and stays as long as the new habit holds.
Read this before you add them up
Do not add the two totals together
The first is a flow: it repeats every year. The second is a stock: it is released once. Say it in two parts, because a lender, a partner or a buyer will hear the difference straight away.
Every lever started at one percent or one day, and the sentence above is about that first notch. Slide further and the number grows in proportion — which is the whole point. The question is never whether one percent is possible. It is which lever you have been leaving alone.
What this does not tell you
This shows the size of each lever. Base Camp shows you how to pull it.
Which numbers to pick, how to build a finance rhythm you can read every week, and how to keep a lever pulled once it moves — that is the Finances gear inside Base Camp. Start with the free scan; it tells you whether Finances is even the gear to start with.
Want to move a lever by more than one percent, in the units your business already runs on? Open the longer version: One Percent, One Day, One Person.
The idea that small moves on several levers add up to a large one is an old one; Verne Harnish’s Scaling Up calls it the Power of One. This page is Summit’s own version, in plain words, built from our founder’s operating history. The seven levers, the figures and the way they are kept apart are ours.