How to Scale a Team Without Becoming the Person Holding It All Together

Send us Fan Mail If you’re trying to figure out how to scale a team, you might assume hiring more people will finally give you more capacity. So why are you somehow busier than you were before? That’s exactly what happened to one founder I worked with. Her business was growing quickly and, over six months, she added ten people to her team. She thought the additional support would finally give her some breathing room. Instead, she got more questions, more decisions, more conflict and more thin...