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My entrepreneur group called me lazy today because I wasn't killing myself for my business

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Drew Robson
Drew Robson
Consultant

100%. Effective leaders are always looking for reasons to delegate more and work less because that's the only way to stay ahead of the burnout curve. The "curse of complexity" means that a growing organization is always going to be generating new ways to tie up the time of its leaders with more leadership responsibilities, so unless you're actively shedding non-leadership work at every possible opportunity then you're dooming your company by turning your personal time and energy into a growth bottleneck. Glorifying "work for the sake of work" is toxic and fundamentally bad business. Entrepreneurship is a lot of work (at least in the early and middle innings) and nobody should sugar coat, that but nobody should be glorifying poor work-life balance either.

My entrepreneur group called me lazy today because I wasn't killing myself for my business