The Leak Detector · Chapter 7

The Bottleneck Leak

If your business stops when you leave, you don’t have a business. You have a job. The Bottleneck Leak is the cost of being the only person who can do the work.

You are the bottleneck

Every small business hits a ceiling shaped exactly like its owner. The Bottleneck Leak is the revenue you can’t capture because everything still runs through you. The fix isn’t more hours. It’s fewer decisions only you can make.

70%

Of small businesses are owner-dependent

$500k

Average revenue ceiling for solo-bottleneck operators

3

Roles you should systematically remove yourself from this year

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After you find your bottleneck

Remove yourself from one thing.

Don’t try to delegate everything at once. Pick the role costing you the most. Replace yourself there first.

Document as you go.

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The business should grow without you.

If you can’t take a two-week vacation without things breaking, you’ve built a job with a logo. Time to fix that.