Two weeks away is a test of the schedule, not the business

A fortnight without the owner tests the tasks that happen weekly. The things that actually make a business fragile happen four times a year.

By Steve 5 min read
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Plenty of owners run the same experiment. They go away for two weeks, nothing catches fire, and they come back reassured that the business no longer depends on them. Some go further and treat it as evidence that the firm is saleable, or at least delegable. It is a real test of something. It is just not a test of dependency. A fortnight samples the high-frequency work: the quoting, the scheduling, the invoicing, the daily judgement calls that recur often enough to have been proceduralised by sheer repetition. Those things…

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