A short excerpt from a YouTube conversation hosted by Will Humphreys. The speakers distinguish two audience types—business owners and leaders who don't own the business—and advise owners to "step out of the business" and work on the business rather than in it. The clip focuses on leadership posture and strategic delegation.
What should someone be doing? Let's say, let's take two people. Let's take. Because there's two types of people listening to the show. There's business owners and then there's leaders who don't own the business. So what should business owners be doing besides treating.
Step out of the business, work on it. I know it's a cliche term, like.
No, I think that's it.
But no, like, and if you don't know even where your business is at, like, do. Do a whole business assessment. And this is how I start with a lot of my clients. So we look at, like, financial health of a business. We look at the processes of the business, we look at the team of the business. We look at everything. Step back and look at everything, what's working, you know, and honestly look at it. Because I can make everything look good in my eyes if I didn't want to do any improvements or make any changes. Right? Oh, she's fine. She's just. She'll get it. Like, yeah, she's the right person in that seat. We're okay, we'll just leave her there, you know? But taking an honest look at the business, seeing where you need to improve, if you don't know how, get help doing it, but work on it. Because once I started stepping away from the business and looking at it almost from a new lens outside, I didn't realize how many improvements I need to make.
