Rant: one thing that certainly doesn't scale is micromanagement. If you are getting copied on every email sent by your employees, you do not scale. You are very busy, oh yes. And that makes you look important. But you're missing details, and sometimes the whole point.
The secret: nobody scales. You have a limited amount of attention each day. To scale, you must: 1) Find trustworthy people to delegate to, 2) trust them. And eventually, let them delegate, too.
If you don't trust your employees, you've got a hiring problem.
The secret: nobody scales. You have a limited amount of attention each day. To scale, you must: 1) Find trustworthy people to delegate to, 2) trust them. And eventually, let them delegate, too.
If you don't trust your employees, you've got a hiring problem.