> Letting my week fill up with sales, finance, pr and exec team meetings and not leaving myself enough time for deep product focus.
i would posit that no single person in a company with more than one person should be working on all these things in a primary capacity. they're all over the spectrum in terms of complementary skills. even in a two-person team, you need to split those roles up so that one person "owns" each of those things. there are exceptions to this rule but you don't see it often.
moving further down the timeline, one of the things i learned quickly as a founder is that if you hire someone to do a job, you have to let them do it. you can't do it for them, and you sure as hell can't micromanage them. mistakes will be made, there will be misunderstandings, but that's just part of working on a team. you just have to accept it.
if you are operating with a decent staff (~10+ people), and are a co-founder and find yourself doing all these tasks, the problem is you.
it sounds like this guy just would insist on working on other peoples' workloads, while skipping out on a lot of company meetings, and they eventually started resenting him for it. you can't wipe that away in a week.
i would posit that no single person in a company with more than one person should be working on all these things in a primary capacity. they're all over the spectrum in terms of complementary skills. even in a two-person team, you need to split those roles up so that one person "owns" each of those things. there are exceptions to this rule but you don't see it often.
moving further down the timeline, one of the things i learned quickly as a founder is that if you hire someone to do a job, you have to let them do it. you can't do it for them, and you sure as hell can't micromanage them. mistakes will be made, there will be misunderstandings, but that's just part of working on a team. you just have to accept it.
if you are operating with a decent staff (~10+ people), and are a co-founder and find yourself doing all these tasks, the problem is you.
it sounds like this guy just would insist on working on other peoples' workloads, while skipping out on a lot of company meetings, and they eventually started resenting him for it. you can't wipe that away in a week.