Mike Andes describes how to stop being a bottleneck by hiring and developing leaders who can identify problems, propose solutions, and execute them. When your team can do all three without waiting for you, your organization's capacity multiplies and you're no longer the constraint.
It's different to hire a multimillion-dollar business owner and be able to lead them and be able to make them more successful. And so what I realized is that I need to get people that could identify a problem, identify a solution, and then go ahead and execute. So this is the 3-step process that I look for to be able to reduce me as the bottleneck. Because if I can get other leaders inside the organization, what I'm doing is I'm building out this bottleneck. No longer am I the bottleneck. I am increasing the throughput of the organization because there are people that— Mm-hmm. Can identify a problem, there are people that can identify a solution, and they can execute. Everyone's like, I'm really good manager because I can identify problems. Nope. If you can just identify problems, and if all you do in an organization, or all people in your organization do as a manager, is identify problems, they are a waste of space. They are constantly gonna drag the organization down, they're gonna slow everything down, they'll never be able to adapt, they'll always look for problems and issues in every single aspect aspect of the business, they can find the problems. Now, you need these people to identify problems. Mm-hmm. But a great manager can do all three of these things.
