“My demonic drive to overcome or destroy any barrier certainly helped Riverford up to a point. But since we became employee owned, I’ve come to appreciate that dispersed power & consultation lead to better, safer, less impulsive decisions, & they don’t have to come at the price of bravery & responsiveness. Watching governance develop at Riverford makes me realise we need to give those with emotional balance, who shout less & don’t need power to bolster their fragile egos, a route to leadership & influence.” Guy Singh-Watson.
As the entrepreneur, the original Boss, you are the pebble that got the ripples going, the source of the vision that made the business take off. But as we know, that doesn’t necessarily make you the best person to take it further.
At least, not on your own.
But for a founder, it can be incredibly scary to cede control, to hand over responsibility for that precious customer experience to someone else.
The answer is to take the ‘governance’ – the way your vision drives what the business does, and how it does it – out of one head (or a few), and build it into the business itself.
So it can be a firm foundation for leadership and influence; a springboard for bravery and responsiveness, accessible to everyone.
A bit of Discipline from you, the original Boss, makes Daring possible. Everyone can become a Boss.
There’s no better way to ensure that your legacy will ripple on.