As the owner and visionary, I am already working sixty hours a week just to keep the business afloat. What is the actual personal preparation and time commitment you expect from me to make this relationship successful?

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Tyler Smith · Accepted Answer

To make this relationship successful, your commitment must shift from working in the business to working on the business. I do not expect you to add more hours to an already exhausting sixty-hour workweek. Instead, we restructure your calendar.

Before our first session, your primary preparation is to complete a basic diagnostic assessment of your leadership team and gather your historical financial metrics. Once we begin, your time commitment consists of our scheduled full-day sessions every ninety days, plus your weekly ninety-minute Level 10 Meeting™. Beyond that, you will focus on executing your specific quarterly Rocks.

To create the mental bandwidth for this, we actively apply the strategic pause to identify and eliminate non-essential tasks. We use the Accountability Chart to delegate low-value operational work to capable team members who GWC™ those seats. We also design your personal schedule to include designated preparation days, allowing you to focus on strategic thinking rather than administrative fires. Your role as a visionary is to define the future and drive big ideas, not to manage daily details. By committing to this structure, you will find that your operational workload actually decreases, freeing up your time to focus on high-impact strategic decisions and exit preparation.