Allison Maslan argues that revenue growth means nothing without personal freedom. The real metrics are how many decisions happen without you, how much of your week is actually yours, and whether your bottleneck role shrinks. More money in a cage is still a cage.
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Here's the lie that has trapped more CEOs than any other. If you just hit the next revenue number, everything's going to feel different. It will not. You see, my team and I have mentored CEOs at every single revenue tier, and the ones who are happy are not the ones with the biggest numbers per se. They are the ones who built a company that gave them their life back. Revenue without freedom is just a more elegant cage. And the real scoreboard at every level of scale is how many days a month are you still the bottleneck and in the weeds? How many decisions decisions in your company can actually move without you. How much of your week actually belongs to you? If those numbers are not moving in the right direction, the revenue number is lying to you. Save this video and remind yourself when you forget what's most important as you scale.