The Founder Who Mistook Control for Standards
The Founder Who Mistook Control for Standards A founder says: I just have really high standards. And the diagnostic question I always want to ask is this: can anything happen without you? Because if every email needs your eye, every proposal needs your edits, every client issue needs your intervention, and every deliverable needs your fingerprints on it — we may not be looking at high standards. We may be looking at control. And that distinction matters a great deal to the business trying to grow underneath it. Why the Pattern Is Hard to See From the Inside This founder is not careless. That is what makes the pattern harder to catch. She is doing the opposite. She is everywhere. She reviews everything. She catches everything. She answers everything. She rewrites everything. She steps in whenever something is not quite right, which is often, which means she is constantly stepping in. She also accidentally made herself the printer, the therapist, the approval department, and the em...