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Bill Gallagher argues that building a business doesn't require grinding yourself down. Instead of solving every problem for your team, ask them what they think. It empowers employees, develops leaders, and reduces burnout.
Bill Gallagher argues that building a business doesn't require grinding yourself down. Instead of solving every problem for your team, ask them what they think. It empowers employees, develops leaders, and reduces burnout.
Growing your business is hard work, but it doesn't have to suck. That whole hustle and grind culture and stuff that lean in business, it's kind of BS and it actually ends up costing your company and your team a great deal. The thing that I had to deal with to bring the fun into our lives and our business in this case, and what made us stronger, is that I started encouraging people to solve their own problems. When people came into my office and they brought a problem to me, hey, I'm struggling with this. I need some help with that. I. I stopped solving it for them, and instead I asked them, well, what do you think about that and what ideas do you have and what could you do about it and what do you think the best course of action is? I was not carrying all the weight myself, which would make the business and the challenges suck. I was pushing it out to them. In the process, they were also being empowered and developed as leaders in their own rights. And I got better as a leader by not doing so much, by not hustling and leaning in and grinding it out by going home a little earlier.
