If you’re in the privileged position where your team or your group or your family or your organisation are growing, you’ll understand the stretch that this causes.
As the jobs multiply and the decision making increases and the complexity of the organism grows, it becomes less and less possible to do everything yourself.
When people move to a bigger house, they often get a gardener and a cleaner.
The choice is to stay in the smaller house and to clean yourself but to move to the larger house and decide that you’re going to do all of the gardening and all of the cleaning and all of the ironing and all of the cooking and all of your own work, with all of your children’s schoolwork and your children’s activities and all of your training etc etc runs out of space over time.
Choosing the right people to help you in the right places and trusting them to do the work properly is the only place where growth exists.
Even in a situation where you are privilege enough to design a piece of software which can sell a billion times for no further design, you’ll still need someone to help you with the money and the infrastructure and the marketing and the operations and the technology and then someone to help you with all of those people that you’ve got to help you.
Learning to give away and to cast aside the ‘I’ll just do it myself’ mentality allows you to move to bigger places.
Choosing to stay where you are is fine too. Knowing whether you’re staying or going is essential.
Blog Post Number - 2948
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