Stop being your most senior employee
Are you leading, or did you build a job you can never clock out of? The founder’s burden, working on the business instead of in it, and turning a vague vision into a strategic objective.
Steve Simonson
Show notes
Look at your desk: support emails, a delayed freight shipment, invoice number forty-seven. This deep dive into Catalyst88 executive training material calls it the founder’s burden — working in the business instead of on it.
It covers the “mushroom cloud” feeling of running everything yourself, why a team of true believers solves problems you never see, and how to turn a feel-good vision into a strategic objective that is specific and measurable.
For owners who feel like their own senior-most employee. The business exists to serve your why. If it stops doing that, fix it, sell it, or kill it.