Delegation

“Could your current price pay somebody else to deliver the work and still leave you cash on the side? Profit. If the answer is no, delegation is mathematically impossible for you.”

“So for them to feel like they can step out in some way, it doesn't have to be black and white, all or nothing. It could be somebody else bringing a mini me, bringing somebody that could do 80% and you bring in the 20%, right? It's kind of like the dentist visi…”

“But once you get to that lean team of highly exceptional doers, if you're then controlling and not delegating, then what are you doing? You have a whole bunch of exceptional talent around you who in theory On their own roles in the business is going to be more…”

“Cardinal sin of delegation is that it will be faster or better to do it myself. And the reason it's a blocker is because it's true. But the only way you get leverage is by going through that work.”

“What do you love to do so much you'll never give it up? Delegate that. Because when you can delegate your passion, you'll learn to delegate the entirety of your business.”

“Knowing that as they let it go, the other person may not do it exactly how they will do it. In fact, almost certainly they will not do it exactly. But part of what we look at is to say, well, is it important that they do it exactly how you would do it? And wha…”

“What, for that transition to happen is you're gonna have to be able to build, mentor, and then ultimately delegate responsibility and authority to the people that are gonna be running that, and that is a selfless act. That is you having faith And a little bit …”

“And to me, the only way That you can end up spending your time on the things that you are most qualified to do and our highest leverage for your business is through exceptionally good delegation.”

“It doesn't matter how good of a delegator you are, if you're thrashing your team all the time, or you're not organized enough to know what needs to get done by when. Like, delegation's gonna be tough.”

“Really, if you don't like doing a certain thing, like writing investor updates, it means that you should probably have somebody else do it because clearly you're not a reliable person on this specific type of task.”

“Oftentimes where delegation breaks down is like, you're either flying too low. The person is as at the, Hey, I know what to do next. Stop Telling me what to do, all these specific things. That's micro. Or it's the flip, which is like, they need various prescri…”

“The cardinal sin of delegation is thinking it's faster or better to do something yourself. And of course it is, you can always do something faster or better yourself, but the way you gain leverage is you spend more time upfront delegating something so that you…”

“The thing is delegation only works if the team's competent, right? And you have to have both. You have to have a team that's competent and a leader who's willing to let go to scale. You can't have one or the other. You have to have both.”

“Instead, delegate things that you're good at. This sounds really strange, so let me explain. The things that are the easiest to delegate are the things that you're already good at. You know how to do these things really well. You might already be an expert in …”

“I think if you think you can do it better, you haven't found the right person yet.”

“Especially when things don't go as well as I want them to go, or, you know, somebody messes up on something with a client, you know, you want to jump in and just do it and just like, I'll just take care of it. But I know that is one of the worst things that yo…”