Jim James and Bruce explain why founders get stuck managing instead of owning. The shift requires systematizing operations, hiring committed people, tracking metrics, and coaching your team so the business runs without you there every day.
I would even say for a lot of people, it's their whole career. They'll go to their grave in that position.
You get into that loop as well where you think you can't afford to employ anybody to run it for you, so you keep running it and that treadmill can last for years.
And this is where we come in is we help people at self and manager go to the next rung, which is owner. And that's defined as the business works without you. Doesn't mean you can have a 6-month holiday and expect the business to be still there when you get back. But the business has got one of my favorite principles and laws, which is the law of leverage. And the law of leverage, just as a definition, is ever more with ever less. So more with less. And so forms of leverage that help people get there would be systems. You know, is the business systemized enough so that, you know, it's not all just a, A people-based system. Do I have the right people that care for the company and want to take it? Or have I got a bunch of terrorists running around that I employ? Does the business have the right optics and dashboards and the numbers? That's where we do a lot of coaching to get the owner and the entrepreneur to that level. So for me, that's how you do it.
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