Codie Sanchez explains how to tell if your business depends on you to survive. She uses a 30-day absence test: if things stall, break, or burn without you, you need clear owners for outcomes, documented processes, and a team that can execute without hand-holding.
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If you left for 30 days and didn't check in once what would happen to your business? So most founders are scared to ask that question because they already know the answer. Their business would stall or break or burn down. Real businesses should grow without you. That requires one thing leverage so clear owners for every outcome documented processes KPIs that don't lie a team that can execute without hand holding if you're still the firefighter, the decision maker, the operator and the safety net. You haven't built a business, you've built dependence and your job isn't to be involved in everything. Your job is to build a machine that works even when you're not there. So ask yourself honestly if you disappeared for 30 days with the business growth stall or claps. Don't freak out if the answer is the last two because the first way to change it is to know that that exists and it's going to tell you what to fix next.