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Cash-flow businessMake yourself unnecessary to daily decisions
Sivers tells how, with eight employees and every question still going through him, he began answering each question by explaining his reasoning and having someone write it in a manual. After two months the questions stopped, and he contrasts being self-employed with being a business owner.
“I had to make myself unnecessary to the running of my company.”— Derek Sivers, Delegate or die: the self-employed trap., Jan 2011
Do this
Next time someone asks you a routine question, answer it, explain why, and ask them to add it to a shared manual.