Cameron Herold argues that a leader's core job is to grow people rather than manage tasks. He advises entrepreneurs and new managers to delegate routine to-dos, focus on strategic thinking, inspect and fix broken systems, and teach managers how to think and lead (not just how to use task-management tools) to enable company scaling.
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See, a leader's core job is to grow people. Most entrepreneurs are so frozen in doing and in doing and busy. And I have a to do list. And they forget that their to do list doesn't have their name on it. Right. If Bob is the entrepreneur, Bob can delegate everything on his to do list. And Bob can spend more time being strategic, thinking, inspecting what he expects, looking for the missing system, looking for the broken systems, growing people's confidence, growing their skills. That's what we need to do more of as leaders. So we need to remember that most managers, especially first time, second time managers, have never been exposed to this kind of thinking. And all we're doing is teaching them how to use ClickUp or how to use like Asana. Forget that. That stuff comes later. Teach them how to think and how to be leaders. And then your company scales.