Dotty Scott advises business owners to have explicit conversations with their partner or number-two about running the company if they're absent. Mentor that person to follow your approach instead of starting from scratch.
Uh, if you have a partner, kind of pose the subject, "If I'm not here, how would you run the company?" And because I'm going to tell you how I want to run the company if I'm not here. So have that conversation with your partner or whoever is, uh, your number 2 person, the person who will be the backup on a rainy day. But maybe long-term as well. You might be grooming somebody to— if you want to go off and start a new company, a whole different part of your brain, you could easily mentor somebody into the position and mold them, if you will, in the way you want things done. There are different ways to do that rather than have them think, okay, I'm gonna come in that Monday morning and we're gonna do things my way. They will have heard your reasons why and seen you in action. And why reinvent the wheel when there's already a plan in place?
