You don’t have to lose your business to be able to leave it.
You just have to take yourself out of the day-to-day.
To do this, make everyone a boss. Get the music that’s in your head written down so that other people can play it. Give your people the responsibility and the autonomy to deliver your business’s unique customer experience consistently, in their own style.
The sooner you do this, the sooner you get to choose how much time you want to spend in your business, the sooner you free the business to grow and the sooner you’ll free your people to grow too.
Best of all, you get to keep everything that makes your business uniquely yours.
In the end, you’ll have built a community, not just a business. A community centred around the promises you make and keep for the people you serve. A community that becomes your legacy.
The irony is that all this makes it an even more attractive buy.
But of course by then you won’t want to sell.
