You Don’t Need More Employees. You Need More Leaders.

When you hear advice like, "You need to get out of the weeds. You need to let your team step up and run it," it feels in your mind like this could never happen. The whole thing's going to fall apart. My team is too dependent on me. They don't know how to figure this out on their own. That might be true, and that's really because of you. The way you've set up your operation is that they are dependent on you, but when you do that, then they're only creating ideas through through your lens. Now imagine that you're surrounded by all these brilliant people, but you don't know it because you've set them up to just be copycats of what you've always done. So instead of constantly answering their question and telling them what to do, what if you just stop doing that? What if you say, "You know what? I have full faith in you that you've got this. What would you do in this situation? How would you handle this? Why don't you put a plan together and present it to the team?"