Saying YES to Everything Is Killing Your Growth—Here’s Why

The leaders, especially the leadership team, needs to get better at saying no, and we need to say no more often, we say yes. It's a skill. Most early stage managers suck at saying no. Their answer to every problem tends to be hire more people. And we built this kind of like, kind of kumbaya group hugs, where we're trying to be so inclusive and make sure everybody's happy that we don't want to say no to them. No doesn't scale. Right. But no with a reason. Like, no, because I said so. But no, because we're having dinner in 12 minutes. That's why you can't have the cookie now. You can have a dinner after if you finish all your vegetables. Okay, I understand. Right. So we need to get better at saying no because. And then when you give the team the answers.