Your company starts growing the day you stop being the one who fixes everything. I used to ask, “how in the world am I going to solve this?” Now I ask, “what process do we have for this, and who owns it?” Same problem, completely different question. That question is what lets a business scale past its owner.
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Moment that you stop solving every problem in your business is actually the moment that your company begins to grow. What do I mean by that? In scaling a business, we have to build leaders and systems and processes that dictate the trajectory of our company. The moment that I stopped asking myself, how in the world am I going to fix this? And started asking what system or process do we have in place? Who owns this particular objective? All of those things lead to creating an organization that doesn't rely on you as the owner, solving every problem, and making every decision.
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