If you also say “I do a million things”, and what someone else knows lives only in their head, you're not alone in this.
Where you are now
Could the problem be the role, not the person? It is not their failure, and it is not yours. It is what happens when a role was never written down.
And it costs you. When the roles aren't written down, you carry them yourself, and you find yourself doing a million things without knowing exactly what.
And every week spent only putting out fires produces more fires the following week. If you stay in coping, the demand to cope only grows.
Who's talking to you: Axel Jedlitschka
When I build a system, I open a new folder and start describing what my problem is, what end product I want, and what I want it to do. Along the way I learned that I can get by even if I end up alone, and have to market myself, sell my service and deliver it.
That's why I'm against “He'll pick it up as he goes”. Whoever receives a role from you needs to know what comes out of it at the end, not only what gets done in it. A product is what comes out, not what is done.
Axel Jedlitschka
What to demand
Point at a role in your business and say, in one sentence, what comes in, what changes, and where it goes.
Write one sentence about what comes out of a role, and one number you count every week.
Take a recurring problem and re-diagnose it as a role that was never written, instead of a person who isn't right.
Sit with a person and hand them a role in words, not in a file.
Write your own role, the one role in the business that almost always stays unwritten.
There is a way
A job description lists what is done, and if what you wrote describes doing, it is not yet a product. What works is one page that defines what comes in, what comes out, and how you know it happened. In the booklet, this page is called a hat: you used to be able to tell someone's trade by what sat on their head.
If whoever holds the role vanished tomorrow, could the next person reach the result from the page alone? If so, the page is done. If not, what is missing is exactly what needs adding.
The way, in one booklet
Your Hat · a booklet by Axel Jedlitschka
A way to turn a role into something that can be handed over, and a check that tells you whether it actually landed.
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58 pages, 10 chapters, six fields you can fill in for any role, and six exercises
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You can start with one page: the role it would hurt most to lose if somebody didn't show up tomorrow morning. Three lines is enough: what comes out of it, for whom, and how you know it happened.
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Half a page, 20 minutes. There is no quiet moment in which you will write it: the quiet moment arrives because you wrote it.
A one-person business needs this exactly as much as a ten-person business. The only difference is that all the roles sit on one head.
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What now
You can keep putting out fires, or you can write one page today on the role it would hurt most to lose. Three lines is enough.
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