Lori Harder (YouTube video, Apr 23, 2025) discusses how entrepreneurs can scale without burnout by shifting from doing tasks themselves to finding who can do them. Uses sports coaching analogies (coach on sidelines vs player on field) to emphasize the value of outside perspective, delegation, and leadership to free time and enable growth.
Most people trying to figure out how can I increase sales, how can I drive leads? Forget the how. Elon Musk is not asking how can I bolt on more tires on a Tesla? He's saying who can do this for me? The coach. He's not on the field. He's on the sidelines and he tells the team captain, this is the play. The team captain tells the team and then they go and execute the play. The coach on the sidelines has outside eyes. He's watching and he's seeing. What moves can we make? What am I seeing from outside that they're not seeing on the field? Right. If the coach was a step on the field, now he doesn't have outside eyes. He's now too far deep into the weeds. As entrepreneurs, once we figure out who can do this for me instead of how can I do it, that gives you so much time, freedom.
