Make yourself expendable. That’s the only way to grow your business.

Your morning routine is the most effective indicator of the kind of leader you are.

You walk in to your office, what is the first thing you do?

I work with entrepreneurs every single day, and for a lot of them, the morning routine looks exactly the same — they enter their offices with their phones glued to their ears.

It is eery how the “walking into office” behavior is the same for so many different entrepreneurs I know. Irrespective of the business they are in, or the stage their businesses are at, they all walk into their offices the exact same way. Putting out a fire. Either it is an unhappy customer or it is someone from their team giving an update on the task they discussed the night before — it is always a firefight. And that is how businesses get tangled up.

You are on the call getting updates on the fires you are trying to put out, you get off the call and get into a quick meeting with the stakeholder who can essentially help put out the fire, and then the actual process of putting out the fire begins — with you being in the thick of things as and when it happens. Before you know it, half the day has passed you by, and you are left with just half the…