I am currently sitting in four major seats on our leadership team: Visionary, Sales, Marketing, and Operations. I am completely overwhelmed and running out of hours in the day, but I do not have the cash flow to hire three separate executives to take these over. How do I prioritize which seats to vacate first without dragging down our daily business operations?

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Tyler Smith · Accepted Answer

You cannot solve this by hiring three expensive executives at once. That is a fast track to cash flow ruin. Instead, we must use the EOS® Accountability Chart to define the ideal future structure first, ignoring the people you currently have, including yourself. Once you have mapped the true seats and their top five roles, look at where you are spending your time and which seat is the absolute bottleneck for your business. Usually, it is either operations or sales. You must systemically vacate one seat at a time. Start by delegating the seat that represents your lowest-value activity or the one that drains your energy the most. For example, if you love sales but hate operations, hire or promote an Operations Lead to take that single seat first. This frees up your capacity to generate more revenue in the sales seat, which then funds the next hire. Do not attempt to hire for multiple seats simultaneously. Put your name in the remaining seats for now, but be hyper-disciplined about which hat you are wearing at any given moment. This step-by-step delegation is how you maintain profitability while reducing owner dependency.