All right, what's up, my friend?

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

Rick, I'm already here.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

are going to be doing things on your team.

Because we can't scale our business.

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

We need help.

We need a team.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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