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The Art of Online Business

Ask Rick: As the CEO, Do I Have to Make ALL the Decisions?

The Art of Online Business

Kwadwo [QUĀY.jo] Sampany-Kessie

Team Building, Online Business, Outsourcing, Marketing, Facebook Ads, Business Scaling, Business, Online Marketing, Productivity, Evergreen Sales Funnels, Podcasting, Youtube, Entrepreneurship, Social Media

4.8828 Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

It’s time to talk about decision-making as a CEO. Should you be making all the decisions for your business, or is it time to start sharing that responsibility? ‍‍ ‍‍ ‍‍ Cut your lead gen costs in HALF with my $37 mini-course–NOW only $17!Visit The Art of Online Business website for Facebook Ads help‍‍ ‍‍ ‍‍ The problem with holding on to all the decision-making is that it doesn’t leave enough time for you to make the strategic, high-level decisions that move your business forward. Th...

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0:00.0

All right, what's up, my friend?

0:07.0

Welcome to today's episode of the Art of Online Business podcast.

0:11.0

Rick, I'm already here.

0:12.2

Today, I want to talk to you about decision making as the CEO.

0:16.3

This is a question that came up recently, and this is another question I thought would be really,

0:21.5

really useful to chat with all of you here on the podcast. Early on in my business,

0:26.3

I really struggle with this. I'm a kind of a recovering control freak. And the more people

0:32.8

I taught to who are business owners, this is a very common thing. It's really, really difficult when we

0:38.8

transition from what I like to say, that day-to-day entrepreneur to the CEO level. It's really

0:45.4

hard for us to give up control over decision-making or how something is done because other people

0:53.7

are going to be doing things on your team.

0:55.9

Because we can't scale our business.

0:58.0

We can't have a bigger impact just by ourselves.

1:00.8

We need help.

1:01.7

We need a team.

1:02.9

And the cool thing is, is that as the CEO, we don't need to make all of the decisions.

1:08.9

And that's what I want to break down here for you today and where

1:11.5

this comes from and some helpful tips for you. And think about it like this. If you've ever been

1:17.1

into a, you know, kind of like a fine dining restaurant, and you look in the kitchen, you see

1:23.3

like the head chef back there or I don't know what you call it master chef or what have you.

1:28.0

Assuming that you as the CEO need to make all the decisions would be equivalent to expecting

1:34.8

that chef, that master or head chef to personally themselves select every ingredient,

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