Delegation is the key to growth
“You’ll never scale if you don’t delegate”
One thing I battle with my mentees is trying to encourage thinking in terms of systems and scale, rather than productivity and perfection.
Doing everything yourself is admirable, and yes: you have complete control over the quality of your output, but you can’t scale that way.
The key to growth is to find people (or systems) to replace the work you do. How can you get someone else to do your tasks? It takes some upfront time to set up, but it will pay dividends.
Of course, not every business needs to grow — you may want to keep things small — but if you have more work than you can handle, are stressed, and missing opportunities, delegation and systematisation is the key.
Oh, and a note about “quality”: my motto is that “perfection is the enemy of progress”. Your first hire won’t be perfect. They might not “do it the way you do it”. But it is better to get things done, and improve as you go, than trying to find perfection from the outset. ‘Speed’ always wins.
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