When a CEO asked this person to document their work in an SOP at Medley, they worried it meant they were getting replaced. Instead, writing it down freed them from doing everything themselves and let the team scale. Turns out systems aren't about removing people, they're about freeing them.
I asked ChatGPT to analyze me. It all comes down to Andrew likes systems for everything. And I wonder if that's you too, if you have an aspect of your personality that is so systemized. Do you think in systems to that degree?
I think more in systems now than I did before. Like one quick story is when I was at Medley, I remember our CEO creating a whiteboard and this is the, and he told me, I want you to create an SOP for this. And I'm like, SOP, what the hell is that? Right. And I thought, man, maybe this guy's trying to replace me. Like I didn't know what the reason was behind it. But like, that's probably where I saw some resemblance into, okay, when you're doing something yourself and everything lives in your head, you're not gonna be able to grow. And the only way to grow is by creating a process and then having somebody else follow that process who will be able to augment it even further than you were able to do. So I don't think I'm so systems-oriented like you are, but I understand the importance.
