If You Can't Delegate It, It's Not a Good Process.

If you can't delegate it, it's not a good process. Stick with me for the nuance...

How, when, and to whom you delegate each process is a separate conversation entirely. But the fundamental truth remains: for every process in your business, you should be able to give a brand-new team member login credentials and a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP), and they should be able to get it done.

The High Standard of True Delegation

It's a high standard. And yes, I realize it may sound a bit aspirational. But good, scalable processes have strict requirements:

• Clear documentation

• NO dependence on "tribal" knowledge or judgment calls

• Accessibility to all the people who need to work on or in the process

If it depends solely on you, it is not a repeatable, reliable process. It's simply a thing you have to do. And that is not scalable.

Your Brain is Not a Business Operating System

Even though you're an entrepreneur, you are unfortunately still human with a very much human brain. And human brains are not good operating systems for businesses.

When you can't delegate a process, it means that your brain is the one and only thing in the whole business capable of getting that task done. That is bad news for your ability to scale—and terrible news for your ability to take weekends off.

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The "Is It Delegatable?" Test

Here is your challenge: Run the "Is It Delegatable?" test every time you have to execute a process today. (For this test, consider a "process" to be any series of several steps, actions, or decisions required to get something done.)

If a task doesn't pass the test, write it down.

Send me the list of all the things you can't delegate as of today. Let's figure out how to get that vital information out of your head and put it somewhere far more useful.

A Note on AI

P.S. Don't try to tell me that AI will solve this for you. You might be able to delegate to AI eventually, but AI cannot read your mind (yet)—and right now, that is exactly where all the critical information is trapped.