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Delegation
The best Paper Napkin Wisdom conversations on delegation, chosen and in order.
Most owners know they should delegate. Few feel ready. Nathan Baws has started 19 companies. He says delegate before you feel ready. Free your hands to free your brand. Adam Robinson of Hireology learned it in the 2008 downturn. His team had no ownership. It was all him pulling the strings. Now he tells people where to go, never how to get there.
A coach told Ross Albers he was an employee of a law firm that happened to carry his name. Rhett Power's toy company grew only after he was forced off the delivery truck. Brandon Bagley runs four AlphaGraphics locations. He spent six weeks mostly out of the office, because his team can decide.
Delegation often stalls on the owner's identity. Being needed feels like proof you matter. My own episodes here look at the freedom of how. They also look at the difference between support and rescue.
“Hire great people and then get the heck out of the way.”
Adam Robinson, Episode 105
Start here: the top 10
1
Stop Running Your Business Alone: Brandon Bagley on Peers and Trust
Episode 315 · Brandon Bagley
Brandon Bagley: we is greater than me; peers, accountability and trust given first let him take six weeks away.
2
Delegate Before You Feel Ready: Nathan Baws on Freeing Your Hands
Episode 357 · Nathan Baws
Delegate before you feel ready: stop being the bottleneck.
3
How to Stop Micromanaging Great Hires: Adam Robinson of Hireology
Episode 105 · Adam Robinson
Hire great people, then get out of the way: how to stop micromanaging.
4
Why Telling Your Team How to Do the Work Kills Ownership
Episode 306 · Edge of the Napkin
Stop dictating the how: why it kills ownership.
5
Work On Your Business, Not In It: Ross Albers on Hire, Acquire, Inspire
Episode 261 · Ross Albers
Work on your business, not in it: Ross Albers' hire, acquire, inspire.
6
Stuck Working In Your Business? Rhett Power on Applying What You Learn
Episode 278 · Rhett Power
Stuck working in your business: getting out of the truck.
7
How to Find Time to Develop Your People: Michael Walsh on Integrated Results
Episode 265 · Michael Walsh pt 9
Finding time to develop your people while running the business.
8
Stop Solving Your Managers' Problems: Michael Walsh on Growing Leaders
Episode 280 · Michael Walsh - pt 14
Stop solving your managers' problems.
9
When Your Company Stops Needing You, Is That Failure or Influence?
Episode 397 · Edge of the Napkin
When the company stops needing you: indispensability vs influence.
10
Valuable, Not Necessary: When Your Business Still Depends on You
Episode 366 · Edge of the Napkin
Valuable, not necessary: becoming less necessary to your own business.
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