09/16/2026
When business gets busy, most owners have the same instinct.
"We need another person."
Maybe.
But maybe not.
One of the biggest insights from my conversation with Adam Preusser wasn't about hiring.
It was about clarity.
Early on, Adam and his business partner weren't operating from an org chart.
There weren't departments.
There weren't formal leadership roles.
As Adam put it:
"There was a point where everybody was doing everything."
That works ...
Until it doesn't.
The mistake many growing businesses make is adding people before they've separated responsibilities.
So instead of solving the problem ...
They simply give another person a confusing job.
Adam's advice is surprisingly simple:
Before you hire someone new ...
List everything you do in a week.
Then ask:
Which of these actually requires me as the owner?
Everything else?
It's a candidate for ownership by someone else.
That's how leverage is created.
Not by adding people.
By creating clarity.
Growth rarely stalls because owners stop working hard.
It stalls because everyone is still working on everything.
The businesses that scale aren't always the ones with the most people.
They're the ones where everyone knows exactly what they're responsible for.
