https://youtu.be/yBQrACPA8QY?si=Feh0MQ_Vf_O4W-C4 I agree with everything Ryan has to say.

When you're teaching someone to ride a motorcycle, you can't actually ride the bike for them. Sounds obvious, right? But it's just as true for how you run your business. So many leaders never let go of the bars. So they never empower their team, and they become a bottleneck. And bottlenecks are a liability. As a leader, you don't do the work for your team; you empower them to do their work. It's all in the development process: 1. crystal-clear explanations 2. practical demonstrations 3. setting sharp expectations 4. revealing each step like a perfectly timed gear shift That's how they, your team, gain the confidence to command their own ride. And that is exactly how you decentralize control within your business. Once you’ve done all four steps above, actually give your team the keys, show them the road, and let them ride.

...PS (yes, I know the "PS" came a Tad Early in this post)... but I am currently READING the "80/20 Sales And Marketing" book by Perry Marshall, right NOW! Hey everyone! Quick question for you... How many of you know about the 80/20 principle? And more importantly, are you actually using it in your business? Let me tell you something: the 80/20 principle is almost as powerful as compound interest. Almost. And if you're NOT using it in your online business, you're leaving serious money on the table. What Does 80/20 Actually Mean? Here it is in simple terms: 80% of your results come from just 20% of your efforts. ....in your business!!! ....this means 20% of your customers generate 80% of your sales! .....that's where the gold is buried! A Simple Example: Let's say you have 100 customers: - 20 customers (the top 20%) might be spending $500/month each = $10,000 - 80 customers (the remaining 80%) might be spending $25/month each = $2,000 See the difference? Those 20 customers are giving you 5X more revenue than the other 80 combined! The Secret Sauce: Going Deeper (80/20 Squared) Here's where it gets really powerful. Once you identify that golden 20%, do it again. ......take your top 20% and treat THAT as your new 100%. Then find the top 20% within that group. Real-world example: - You identify 20 top customers (20% of 100) - Now analyze those 20 and find the top 4 customers (20% of 20) - These 4 customers are your super fans - they might represent 64% of your total revenue! The Big Mistake Most Entrepreneurs Make: Focusing on the 80% to only get 20% of the results. ....that's like spending all day watering weeds instead of your prize-winning roses. It's exhausting and unprofitable. ...instead, flip it: Focus on the 20% that gives you 80% - then double down on serving them even better. Conclusion: Your Turn to Share! The 80/20 principle can transform your online business overnight. But knowledge without action is just entertainment.

95% of your problems are old problems wearing new clothes... please understand this framework 👇🏾 That supplier who's ghosting you? Caesar had the same issue with grain merchants 100s of years ago. That investor who keeps moving the goalposts? The Medici banks dealt with that in 1400s Florence. Your co-founder drama? Jobs and Wozniak. Gates and Allen. Every founding story ever... Do not convince yourself your situation is special. Or that your market is different. Or that your generation is unique. Stop trying to solve everything from first principles, you're not the first human to run a business... Someone probably solved the problem that is keeping you up at night in 1987. And 1993. And 2004. And last Tuesday. I've been in business for about 15 years and it's taken me 12 of them to realise that the first question to ask yourself when you're facing a challenge is... "Has anyone solved this before?" When Netflix started streaming - genuinely new. Nobody had done it at scale. When I started hiring people - ancient problem. Millions had done it before. When Uber fought city regulations - uncharted territory. The playbook didn't exist. When I tried to motivate my first team - timeless challenge. Ask any Roman general. In the last couple of years, I became wildly more productive when I started asking one question: "Who's already solved this?" If someone has, I find them. Pay them. Hire them. Ask to meet them. Whatever it takes to not spend three years learning what they can tell me in three minutes. If nobody has - if it's genuinely unprecedented - then I experiment like hell. No advisors. No books. No "best practices". Fail as fast as I can. 👴🏻 OLD PROBLEMS = FIND EXPERTISE 👶🏼 NEW PROBLEMS = FAST EXPERIMENTATION The tragedy I see all the time is founders wasting their prime years solving solved problems... They're brainstorming HR policies that P&G nailed in the 80s. Their revolutionary approach to email marketing? Someone A/B tested that in 2015.