Nate Tilley argues that founders are usually the bottleneck in their own businesses. Before you can lead a team, you have to lead yourself through continuous self-improvement. Your capability ceiling becomes your company's ceiling.
In order to learn how to lead people, you need to lead yourself. You need to always be on the quest to better yourself as a person. Everyone's a student, and there's always room for you to grow. You can't want your team to always be seeking new skills and growing if you're not doing that yourself. You need to make sure that you're not talking about doing things, but you're actually doing them. I look at it as like the theory of constraints. And the biggest constraint on everybody's business is the founder. And it's not anything else. It's not the team, it's not the people that you hire. I just can't find any good people. Well, you're just good enough. That is the constraint.
