Kit Barber says managers who do the work themselves make their jobs harder. Instead, ask each task: should I do this or teach someone else? Spend 20 minutes daily training that person to build capability and free your time.
You're making running a business way harder than it needs to be. So try this instead. Stop doing the doing, start leading the doers, and watch how quickly things will change. This week, every time you're about to do a task, then stop and ask, should I be doing this or teaching someone else to do it? If it's the second one, block out 20 minutes a day to train them.
