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Mark Evans DM
August 04, 2025

Where leadership, leverage, and next-level hiring collide.

Today’s topic?

Why most business owners stay trapped in their own company.

It’s not because the market is bad.
It’s because they keep hiring helpers instead of leaders.

Helpers wait for instructions.
Leaders create momentum.

The wrong hire keeps you chained to the desk.
The right hire sets you free.

Good employees do what you say. Great employees do what you would do.
The best employees? They do what you wish you’d thought of.
You can’t scale if you have to touch everything.
Delegation to the wrong person is still doing it yourself.
Your business will only grow as fast as your team can think.
Decision-making speed matters more than most owners realize.
If you hire for compliance, you’ll get followers.
If you hire for ownership, you’ll get leaders.

Hiring slow and firing fast protects momentum.
Keeping the wrong person costs more than replacing them.
Helpers follow instructions. Leaders create results.
Know the difference before you hire.
If you want freedom, you have to trust your team.
Micromanaging is just a dressed-up way of admitting you hired wrong.
The best hires challenge your thinking.
They don’t just agree with you.

Look at your team honestly.
Who’s taking ownership and who’s clocking in?
Find one recurring task you never want to touch again.
Delegate it to the right person.
Ask your top performer:
“If you were me, what would you change tomorrow?”
Get in a room where hiring right is a priority.
Surround yourself with owners who have built self-sustaining teams.

"You don’t build a business. You build people, and people build the business.”
— Zig Ziglar

You’re not stuck because you’re not working hard enough.
You’re stuck because you’re carrying too much alone.

Mark Evans DM