Connected souls
Travelling the road it isn’t possible to look out all the windows all of the time. Necessarily, your attention is focused forward, keeping your eyes on…
The first step is accepting that you can’t do everything yourself.
You kinda-sorta accept it, which is why you have a team around you, but the obvious facts are a struggle at the same time.
You think (especially if you’re the founder) that your job is every job. That you’re the one who gets things done, you’re definitely self-sufficient, you’re go-to. It’s what gave you your chair. Now, accepting you need help … that you’re the kind of person who needs help, that you’re no longer able to do things on your own … can feel like an existential crisis.
It’s not.
It’s growth.
It’s how you grow as a leader.
It’s how an organisation grows out of the connected souls around you.
The second step is building the team and structures that mean you don’t have to do everything.
Skippy strategy: Hiring is hard in itself, but understand it’s the easy part.
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