You’re the go-to
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 what’s…
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 the go-to.
It’s what earned you your chair.
Now, accepting you need help … that you’re the kind of person who needs help, that you’re not able to do everything on your own … feels 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 accepting that team and structures mean you don’t have to do everything.
Skippy strategy: Hiring is hard in itself but it’s the easy part.
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