The biggest risk in YOUR business?
Are you the biggest risk in your own business?
Not your staff. Not your biggest client. You.
I know that because a while back, a lady came to me for business finance. In the conversation, she told me what had happened. Her husband had been running the company. Good business. He was hands-on, knew everything, had his thumbprint on all of it. Then one day he had a heart attack. And just like that, he was gone for six weeks.
She had to walk in and run a business she did not fully know. No one knew where anything was. No one knew what to do. The company came within inches of going under.
She told me it was a disaster area. She also told me she ended up loving it. She is still there now. But that is not the point.
The point is, it should not have been that hard.
Here is the question I want you to answer honestly. If you were not there tomorrow, not gone, just unavailable, what would actually happen? Would wages go out? Would someone know which clients to call? Would anyone be able to move money?
For most directors, the honest answer is no.
The fix is simpler than you think. One document. One page. Who does what, where everything is, who calls which clients. And here is the thing. AI will build it for you in about thirty minutes. You just need the right prompt.
Email me directly and I will send you the prompt. You put it into whatever AI you use, it asks you the questions, and you end up with something you can leave at home or with a trusted person in the office.
Tomorrow I would like to share with you how my pal Ben takes three months holiday a year. He is 37 years of age. And his business runs better when he is away than most businesses do when the director is sitting right in the middle of it.