28 Jan 2026 · 4 min
Bill Gallagher argues that leaders who never take vacations end up micromanaging and fail to delegate, which weakens their teams. Taking time off forces you to pass the baton and lets others step up into bigger roles.
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Do you ever feel like you're maybe working too hard? I think we often all are working too hard, but not for the reason you think. See, our working too hard makes us feel stressed, makes us feel tired, makes us feel like we're not thinking clearly. Comes at an impact with our families and our wellbeing and our play and fun in life. But there's another big thing. It actually makes your company and your team weaker. When you work too hard, your company and your team don't necessarily work as hard. Very often you're trying to do too much and that keeps them from doing enough, keeps your team and company from leveling up. I was coaching a very large company at one point and I had a new CEO who was trying to get the company going and they were working many, many hours, trying to be Superman and they were working very, very long hours and I see this kind of thing again and again. They would send a text message off to the team or email message off. Not a text message, usually an email message off at three in the morning and then wanting to talk about something else. Clearly they were up at 3 in the morning and then team members would get up and when they got up at 5, 6, 7, whatever it was, and they'd open their email as one of the early things to do, which they probably shouldn't do, but they trained by the CEO, by their actions that they were going to do it all. And then they'd go into a complete.
Like meltdown and everything was chaotic all.
The time and they were completely micromanaged and it just really didn't work. Another team in the healthcare space that had a female CEO and also trying to do the same thing worked out incessantly and trained and worked many hours a day and just was completely like driven and you'd think that worked and and it does produce some results, but at some cost. Not only to your personal well being and the clarity of your thinking, but also to the overall well being of the team. People get micromanaged. When you work too hard. You're not passing the baton. So you could actually do yourself a favor and make a big difference by taking some time off. Go on a vacation. Get away from the office. Take lunch with people, with a client, with a team member. Take some time off. Step away. Real leaders take vacation. The best ones do. And the best leaders pass the baton. Learn to pass the baton. Learn to step back a little bit. Know when it's time to lean in and work hard and when it's time to pull back and let somebody else step up. I'm Bill Gallagher, Scaling Coach and host of this Scaling Up Business podcast. We bring at least one show to you every week with something to do to level up your company to raise up as a leader to build a bigger, better company doing something that you really care about. We hope the show is helpful for you. If you like it, subscribe it like it, turn on your notifications so that you get them every week and keep coming back. Share it with somebody else and if.
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