Lisa Murphy tells founders they become their own bottleneck as businesses grow. Successful companies run on systems, not one person's willpower. Without them, chaos follows, but systems can be built and learned.
The bigger your business gets, the less freedom you actually have. Your own success accidentally builds a cage around you. The more your company depends on you for everything, the less free you become. You, the founder, become the single biggest bottleneck to your own company's growth. If that sounds familiar, you're not just the founder anymore. You've become the bottleneck, and that's a job you can never, ever quit. Huge companies don't run on the willpower of one person. No way. They run on really, really good operational systems. The chaos you're feeling, it comes from a lack of systems that can actually handle the weight of your success. Systems can be built. You can learn to build them. So if systems are the answer, where on earth do you start?
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