An entrepreneur took a 45-day break to test whether his team could run things without him. He argues that founders who won't delegate create golden handcuffs for themselves, trapping them in endless work instead of the freedom they started a business to get.
That's why I'm taking off 45 days from work. My crew can actually handle it. I'm sure things will break and we'll take care of that when that time comes. But you have to stop being the bottleneck of your company and you have to let your guys thrive. You can't be the one that they always come to because if you're the only one they come to all the time, you'll never ever live the big life you want. You'll never ever be able to leave that shop like you want, and you're going to continue to have those golden handcuffs. And that's not what you open the business for. You open the damn business to have more freedom, more time, more time with your family.
