Have you mastered the most Important Skill in Growing a business?

The most Important Skill in Growing a Company is Repeatedly Stepping into Incompetence

Without this skill stagnation is GUARANTEED

When you think about it, incompetence really just means a skill at which you are not yet competent.

Which is all of us at most things right?

If I put together a list of the things that I am competent at and those at which I am incompetent my incompetence list would dwarf my competence list in a very big way.

That’s normal of course, we can’t master everything like we can’t know everything.

For a leader though this challenge is near constant.

The job when there are 5 people in the company is different to the job when there are 10,20,50,100,300,1,000 and so on.

You could argue (and I am) that one of the primary skills of leadership is burning the old role and re-imagining the new one, moving from conscious incompetence to conscious competence and then unconscious competence and back round again.

The challenge then is that during times of overwhelm and uncertainty we tend to cling to those things of which we are most certain.

We do what we are good at even if that very thing is the thing that causes us to become a bottleneck and prevents the business from moving in the direction it needs to.

The leader in an ever growing company in a fast changing world must be willing to step into the idea that they must constantly undulate between competence and incompetence.

I tell my clients often that the way to navigate this is to create 51% certainty within routine.

Mastering the fundamental skills that will never change.

By this I mean, how do you create energy, avoid stress, communicate, parent, be a partner, relax, plan, sleep, manage my money, resolve conflict, delegate, create alignment etc.

51% mastery creates the mental space to let go of what needs to be let go of and face the new reality.

This isn’t easy, most don’t do it, it is the stand out skill of growth.

Are you holding onto skills that are no longer serving you and your businesses objectives?

Only you can know that of course but the results in our lives are the best indicators of that. Your relationships, energy, sleep, stress, company culture, what’s your current trajectory?