How to Remove Yourself As The Bottleneck In Your Business

About this episode

Emma Mills discusses the myth of self-reliance in business and its impact on productivity.

Send us Fan Mail What would it mean to protect your mornings completely? In this episode, Emma Mills shares the real story of a business owner who was checking his emails at 10pm every night. His doctor had told him to stop. And yet he couldn't because he genuinely believed there was no one else who could do it. Emma unpacks the myth that doing everything yourself is quicker, faster, or better and why believing it is costing business owners far more than lost productivity. It's costing ...

People in this episode

Host: Emma Mills

Topics covered

• productivity
• business management
• entrepreneurship
• work-life balance
• delegation

Keywords

• bottleneck
• emails
• productivity
• business owner
• delegation

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