Brian Hoppe tells MSP owners to surround themselves with people smarter than they are who will push back on impulsive decisions. A strong leadership team demands data and market research before chasing new opportunities, preventing expensive pivots that derail sustainable growth.
If you as the owner are the one making all those decisions, who's going to call you out and pull the reins when you say, oh, this is really exciting, I want to go do this, and you take a left turn and just completely abandon all the things that were working because this is exciting, right? If you have a good leadership team that's smarter than you, they can course correct and be like, no, we're not doing that. Yeah. Or we're going to do that, but we got to do X, Y, and Z first. Like, one thing I always remember asking in strategy meetings was like, we want to do this. And I go, okay, well, what What's the market research that's backing up that decision for us to do that? And it was just like, you know, you can see like, oh, Jesse, come on, man. I'm like, but seriously, like, is there anything here that says other than this one customer wants this right now and it's a hot opportunity that we should go do it? Like, what's the macro view of that we should really do this? And then it was like, oh, well, you know, a lot of times there was like, there was a macro view, but we want to think that through and make sure we understand that before we go down that path.
