Mike AndesFounder, Augusta Lawn Care and Homeworks · Founder of Homeworks and Augusta Lawn Care

The One Thing No One Else in Your Business Can Do

11 Jun 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief monologue, Mike Andes reflects on the core responsibilities of a founder or leader as a business scales. He identifies two primary focuses: first, actively removing bottlenecks that frustrate and slow the team, thereby increasing overall efficiency; and second, maintaining a high-level, 30,000‑foot view to set and communicate the company’s vision, mission, and purpose. By leveraging his unique visibility across all aspects of the business, he can allocate his time to these strategic tasks that differentiate him from other team members.

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As the business has grown, I've realized that my job really comes down to just a few things. I'm trying to remove bottlenecks for the team, things that are frustrating them, things that are slowing the team down. I'm trying to fix that. If it's a roadblock, if it's a speed bump, if it's a speed bump for 20 people and I can remove that, make them 10%, 20% more efficient, I leverage use of my time. The second thing I'm really trying to focus on is setting the vision. Like, why are we even doing this? As the founder or the leader inside the organization, there's really one thing that sets you apart from everyone else, and that is you have visibility to all aspects of the business. And so being able to stay at that 30,000-foot view and then keep everyone going in the right direction and setting the vision for like why we do what we do and the whole mission for this business becomes the main priority.