1: As the CEO of his company, Brad was tired of all the “upward delegation” he was experiencing.

His team members would line up outside his door to ask for his guidance to help solve their problems.  

By the end of the conversation, somehow Brad now owned the issue.

“These problems were sucking his time and energy,” Dan Martell writes in his book Buy Back Your Time: Get Unstuck, Reclaim … continue reading

1: No one ever gets it right.

“That’s one thing many entrepreneurs think,” Dan Martell writes in his book Buy Back Your Time: Get Unstuck, Reclaim Your Freedom, and Build Your Empire.

The good news? There’s an easy way to solve this problem.

Dan calls it: A Definition of Done. Or, simply: A DoD.  

“I use this for every person at every level in my company,” he writes.  

“For … continue reading

1: “I’m really sick of all the day-to-day stuff,” said Andre, the owner of a manufacturing company, to his friend Simon in Dan Martell‘s book Buy Back Your Time. “I think I need to hire an operations manager.”

“Okay, Andre,” Simon said. “But before you do that, talk to me about your day. What’s the biggest chunk of time you spend each week on something you hate … continue reading

1: “I feel like I’m letting the team down,” Miranda said.

Miranda, a superstar team member, was sitting across from her boss, entrepreneur Dan Martell, for their weekly one-on-one.

She “admitted she felt overwhelmed after a recent promotion to team leader,” Dan writes in his book Buy Back Your Time. “She went from specialist to managing more people than anyone else in our company,”

Miranda told him: “I’m … continue reading