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Alan Watts said the menu is not the meal. Leaders shouldn't try every dish on the menu either. Pick the few things you'll do yourself, delegate the rest, and stop pretending you can handle everything.
Alan Watts said the menu is not the meal. Leaders shouldn't try every dish on the menu either. Pick the few things you'll do yourself, delegate the rest, and stop pretending you can handle everything.
Alan Watts said, the menu is not the meal. And there's probably a lot of different ways to interpret this, but the way that I interpret it came back around when I was speaking with a board chairman the other day about a CEO who was doing everything. The menu is not the meal. It reminded me that even though there's a lot of different things on the menu, you don't— very rarely at least— try everything on the menu. You pick a couple of things that you think you might enjoy And then you enjoy those. And similar for CEOs and startups in general, it's easy to kind of fall into the trap of wanting to do everything, but you have to have other people have a taste too. And so figuring out what are the things that you're gonna occupy yourself with versus what are all the other things that somebody else will be doing in your business, it's a pretty important exercise.
