Ep 186: The Holiday Test: Can your business run without you?

Ep 186: The Holiday Test: Can your business run without you?

June 30, 2026 · 18 min · Episode 74

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The episode discusses the 'holiday test' to evaluate if a business can operate independently of its founder.

Send us Fan Mail The holiday test is deceptively simple. If you took four weeks off with no phone, would your business hold its standard, or would it quietly degrade without you? For most business owners, the honest answer points not to a workload problem but to a design problem, and this episode tackles it directly. Stuart opens by reframing the issue: a business that depends on the founder for most decisions is not really a business. It is a job that pays the owner to turn up. That dependen...

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