Dave Mortensen

My strength and my weakness is I can probably dive into anything and figure it out.

And that strength and a weakness.

The weakness in that is that I was taking on things that were not ready or we weren't developing as fast as the organization was.

So I was trying to solve problems that were going to take me a little bit more time to learn and figure out.

And the business was ahead of it, right?

And when you start to live in behind your business and start to figure things out that are not within your capability wheel, this is where I think the greatest gift that most leaders top down, biggest weakness they have is they don't ask for help.

and they don't look to find capability leaders or capabilities in general that can come in and help you solve the problems because you're trying to solve it yourself.

It's like you're almost in bed.

Your ego gets in a way cause you're embarrassed.

You don't understand it or you haven't figured it out yet.

And that actually put an anchor onto the business.

And when you put an anchor on a boat and try and go down, down the way of the water, you know what happens?

Um, that anchor only gets heavier.

It picks up weeds.

It gets stuck on a rock.

And you become the stalling point to your business.

So there were areas of the business I needed to let go and allow others or get rid of and allow others be able to, with better capabilities, be able to lead that space of the business so I could focus on the major things of our business that I can have better control of.

That's a great question.

Easy answer for me.

One, my biggest advice for people in business, especially early business, when you find someone great, make a place for them.