If revenue drops the week you take off, you do not have a business yet. You have a job with employees.
The test is simple. Leave for two weeks and look at the numbers when you get back. If they held, you have systems. If they dipped, you are the system.
Owners become bottlenecks in predictable places: pricing decisions, hiring, escalated customer issues, and anything involving money. Each one can be handed off with a documented decision rule and a limit.
Start with the decision that interrupts you most. Write the rule, set the boundary, and let your manager make the call inside it. Review the calls weekly until you trust the pattern, then widen the boundary.
This is how capacity gets built. Not by working more hours, but by moving decisions down the org chart with a structure that catches mistakes early.
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