A $10M owner refuses to be in every meeting, solve every problem, or run every call. That single refusal is the whole difference between staying at $1M and scaling past it. Your job isn’t to do everything, it’s to build leaders who can, then trust them to. So what do you need to give up this week?
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The biggest difference between a $1 million owner and a $10 million owner is what that owner refuses to do. A $10 million owner refuses to be in every meeting, refuses to solve every problem, refuses to run every single service call, and refuses to let their schedule dictate how they operate in their day. If you're a small business owner and wanting to grow to a larger one, what you've got to understand is where your priorities lay, and what are you doing to build the leaders within your businesses that can go solve these problems and oftentimes solve them better than you. So what do you need to give up this week in order to be a better leader?
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