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Why successful founders struggle to let go of daily control

I started this bakery in my kitchen twenty years ago and now we have twelve locations but my managers keep asking me to step back and I do not know who I am if I am not running everything.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The founder's identity has become so intertwined with operational control that delegation feels like self-erasure rather than growth.

Ideas that help explain it
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