What most businesses focus on is not just the core goals and objectives pertaining to commercial success and long term sustainability but developing such environment in the organization that is conducive to the achievement of these goals. You cannot have a long list of ambitious goals that is being tied to an environment which doesn’t promote the flourishing of equally ambitious leadership from within.

Do you feel comfortable leaving your company for more than a week? What would happen if you were gone for a month? Does the question alone make you shudder? If you are not completely certain that the company would be fine and operations would run smoothly while you were gone, you are doing it all wrong.