• Founder Mode vs. Manager Mode: Striking the Right Balance

  • Oct 1 2024
  • Length: 40 mins
  • Podcast

Founder Mode vs. Manager Mode: Striking the Right Balance

  • Summary

  • Welcome to a new episode of Business Lunch! Today, we dive into the intriguing dynamics between being in 'founder mode' and 'manager mode' within a business. Our hosts, Ryan Deiss and Roland Frasier, engage in a rich discussion about the challenges and strategies of balancing hands-on leadership with the necessity of delegation as companies scale. They explore insights inspired by Paul Graham's article on 'founder mode' and share real-world experiences that highlight the importance of a hybrid approach to management and leadership.

    Highlights:

    "This is not a problem to be solved, this is a tension that needs to be managed."

    "Nobody cares as much about the company as the founder that created it."


    "A good founder is a coach to the people they are mentoring."


    "If you implement just one or two key insights from any of our sessions into your business, you are bound to see a return on investment much higher than what we could ever charge for admission."


    Timestamps:

    00:00 - Introduction

    04:26 - The scalability and the practicality of a hybrid management mode

    07:25 - Maintaining company culture and the dangers of founder dependency

    09:34 - The cyclic needs of a business from founder and manager perspectives

    12:45 - Shifting from manager to founder mode

    16:36 - Micromanagement VS empowering employees

    19:15 - The concept and application of skip-level meetings

    23:26 - When and how to conduct skip-level meetings effectively

    27:11 - Avoiding common pitfalls during skip-level meetings

    29:00 - Final thoughts


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