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Key Takeaways The scrappy, hands-on mindset that works for a startup becomes a bottleneck as the business grows. Growth requires upgrading your internal story about who you are and what your business needs from you now.
When you answer every question and approve every single decision, and employees ask for permission for every little thing, you’re not leading a team of adults — you’re parenting them.
Get clear on roles and strengths, build a meeting structure where team members coach others in their specific strengths, raise the standards of professionalism, and build clear criteria for when the founder actually needs to step in.
She had already crossed seven figures. She had a team of five. And every single *ping* of her team’s group chat still required her personal attention.
She was constantly stressed. Waking up at 4 a.m., fearing, “Something is going to fall apart.” And she was completely convinced that this was what running a business at this level required.
When I asked her why she believed that, she looked at me like I had asked her whether gravity was optional.
“Because I don’t know how to do it any other way.”
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