Brendan Kane explains Andrew Carnegie's insight that no great business is built alone. When leaders insist on doing everything themselves, they train their teams to stop offering ideas. The moment to ask for help isn't when you feel weak, but when your strength is weakening the people around you.
Andrew Carnegie had a brutal rule for people trying to do everything alone. No man will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or to get all the credit for doing it. And Andrew is giving a huge warning by saying this. At first, doing everything yourself feels like discipline. Then it turns into control. Then it turns into the reason things start breaking. You'll notice it when people stop bringing you ideas because they already know you'll change them. They stop taking initiative because they've learned you'll take over anyway. And slowly, help disappears. Not because people don't care, because you trained them to stay out of the way. That's when you need to start asking for help, not when you feel weak, when your strength has started making everyone around you weaker, because if nobody can help you without being corrected, replaced, or ignored, then you're not carrying the mission, you're choking it.
