How to Step Away from the Day-to-Day Operations of Your Company

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Main threads of the conversation

• 00:00Signs you're ready to step away from operations
• 00:25The dilemma of stepping away from business management
• 01:04My experience
• 02:05Love for your business
• 02:28Readiness
• 03:27What “stepping away from operations” means
• 03:52Rest and trust
• 05:16Support and mentoring
• 06:22The nuances of stepping away and developing the channel
• 07:02A step-by-step plan
• 07:24The team
• 08:59The entrepreneur's inner state
• 10:10What stepping away from operations offers

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• 00:55

  On the other hand, they start inventing countless reasons and circumstances that prevent them from doing it.

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• 02:31

  When you've reached and recognized that state, you love the business on one hand, and on the other you say, “I'm ready. I'm ready for an employee who's worked with me for fifteen years to be fired.”

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• 04:36

  Throughout, I was always clearly aware that I could take vacation at any time.

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• 05:34

  Either they're much stronger than you across the board in business, approaches, and thinking.

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• 05:49

  Second, start discussing your desire to step away from operations with people around you, your business circle, acquaintances, and friends. Discuss how it could happen and what they think.

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• 07:26

  In fact, it's probably that one key person who runs everything.

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• 07:31

  But there's always a combination involving the team. If you have only one incredibly great person, there is no team.

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• 08:31

  It's a clearly described process or system with defined parameters, while also being something emotional and individual within each person that can't be described or structured.

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• 09:02

  I've stepped away from operations while being emotionally unready for changes to what I'd built inside the business.

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• 11:05

  Or write about how difficult it was to find an outside person offering the right advice and recommendations, because choosing a mentor is such an incredibly difficult subject!

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