Scale or Fail

Conclusion

Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.

—Leonardo da Vinci, Renaissance artist and inventor

Congratulations – you now have all the tools at your disposal to grow your business from entrepreneurship to enterprise! You can fulfill your dream and scale your business as you have detailed in your Big Picture Vision. Nothing will hold you back – unless you think small, revert to old habits, or cave in to your emotions.

The Five Phases of Constructing a Self-Managed Company

As we’ve discussed throughout this book, your ultimate goal is to shift from being the boss to becoming a leader. Your end game is to remove yourself from the equation and build a self-managed company. Your role as the founder is to let go of the day-to-day, to strategize and build relationships to supercharge growth, and to inspire your team to achieve greatness.

I have shown you how to accomplish this through the Four Quadrants and ultimately by replicating yourself, so that you can devote your time exclusively to making a big impact with your Big Picture while adding in more play days to enjoy at your heart’s content. The Five Phases, as I describe them, are another way of framing and summarizing the entire process.

Phase 1

This is your starting point. You run and rule everything in your domain. In fact, you are the domain. You create, implement, project manage, direct, coordinate, ...