How to train: You don’t need a clone. You need alignment. Most founders wait too long to delegate truly. Not because they don’t trust their EAs’ abilities, but because they think: “They just don’t think the way I do.” “If I hand this off, I’ll just have to fix it later.” “No one else sees…
Ask a busy founder what they need help with, and they’ll usually say something like: “I just need someone to take a few things off my plate.” They’re often thinking about calendars, inboxes, travel, or managing the flood of tasks that never seems to end. And while a great EA can absolutely do all that,…
Founders are often the last to realize they’ve become the bottleneck. Not because they’re bad at what they do, But because they’re still doing everything they used to do. Calendar clutter. Slack chaos. Tasks piling up in the name of “staying close to the details.” At first, it feels responsible. Then, it becomes unsustainable. The…
