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The Mindset Shift Every Founder Needs to Make #businessgrowth #success

20 Nov 2025 · 1 min

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In this brief interview, the host discusses a crucial mindset shift for founders: the inverse relationship between control and growth. Entrepreneurs often cling to the belief that they are the sole experts in their business, which limits scaling. The conversation emphasizes the principle that increasing control reduces growth, and advocates for empowering teams, delegating authority, and hiring individuals who are technically superior. A Steve Jobs quote reinforces the idea of employing people smarter than oneself. The segment concludes with a call to action directing listeners to ebs.org for a free business diagnostic aimed at building wealth and abundance.

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When control goes up, growth goes down. How do you help entrepreneurs that are in their comfort zone? They're almost in flow in that I'm needed position. Well, for me, that's the big mindset shift. The common ones are, I'm the best one and the only one who knows how to do this part of the business. So a lot of the time they have to trust and we've got a principle that says, When control goes up, growth goes down. So when the business owner says, I'm okay to empower someone or a team and a lot of, and actually let's go and find on the 7-odd billion people that are on the planet, someone who's better technically on what I think I'm actually great at, right? Is let's go and get a better person. Steve Jobs said that, that, you know, you should be going employing people smarter than you. So this is where that, I think there's a huge mindset shift. And when people allow that, that control to be, you know, tapered, they grow the business.
Now, if you'd like to touch base with Bruce, you can go to ebs.org and they will do a free diagnostic test on your business to help you find out where you're at. And they can help you build your business so that you can live a life of wealth and abundance too. So go to ebs.org.