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Fire yourself
You are often the cause of the biggest bottleneck that is stop-ping you getting your stuff done, or leveraging others to get your stuff done. - P110
3. You are a perfectionist and no one lives up toyour (impossible) standards
Perfection is unattainable. Sure, strive for it, then settle forexcellence. Then improve. If you judge and measure people byyour own standards you will be perennially disappointed. - P111
5. If you want a job done well, do it yourself
No. It is your responsibility to get people to care as much as you with respect and culture.
- P111
I edited my last book Money five full times. My publish-ers asked me to edit it down from 165,000 words to 120,000words. After five full read throughs and hardcore editing, I gotit down from 165,000 words to 165,000 words. Boom. Lookat me! 5,000 words in, 5,000 words out, on each painstakingedit. Genius.
I. Was. The. Problem.
I needed to fire myself. Fast.
I kicked and screamed that the editors wouldn‘t know how to edit the book as well as me, after all it‘s my baby. - P112
Start Now sound bite
Fire yourself fast. You are the problem. Get out of the way. Let go to grow. Trust others to do a good, or even better, job. If you arethe bottleneck you will never scale. - P112
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