CHAPTER 16
Scaling through leverage.
The temporary step back into operations rarely stays temporary. Leverage is built in the moments you choose not to.
PROMPT ONE
What's a fire in your business that you've stepped in to fight personally in the last three months — and was the cost of doing it really cheaper than the cost of letting someone else figure it out?
PROMPT TWO
If you had to point to the moment you started stepping back into operations temporarily, when was it — and is it still temporary?
PROMPT THREE
What's the high-value work — investor conversations, strategic partnerships, key relationships — that you've been postponing because operational fires keep winning your attention?
PROMPT FOUR
What's the actual cost of doing it yourself — not in hours, but in what isn't happening because of where your attention is?
PROMPT FIVE
If you imagined yourself in two years still doing what you're doing now, what would the cost of that path be — to the business, to your team, to your own life?
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