I did not start Dominion Order Co. to be a consultant. I started it after watching too many good founders burn themselves down trying to hold everything together. The problem is almost never the people or the effort. It is the missing structure underneath, and that is a fixable thing.
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Grace FawcettDC@gracefawcett·Sep 20
@gracefawcett·Sep 20Most founders set out to build something once and have it serve people for years, and then daily operations swallow the vision. If the business did not need you every day, what would you finally build? That answer, the thing you keep shelving, is usually still in there.
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Grace FawcettDC@gracefawcett·Sep 18
@gracefawcett·Sep 18If good people keep sending every decision back to you, the problem is usually not the people. It is that no structure holds those decisions, so a person has to, and it is always the most capable one. That is you. Fix the structure and good people can finally run it.
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Grace FawcettDC@gracefawcett·Sep 17
@gracefawcett·Sep 17Most founders start a business for the freedom to do life on their own terms, and then the business quietly starts setting their hours instead. That is not a personal failing. It means the business runs on you rather than on a structure. The freedom is still available on the other side of that.
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Grace FawcettDC@gracefawcett·Sep 15
@gracefawcett·Sep 15Most founders get really good at managing fires. Then they hire people and teach them to manage fires too. One day you wake up running a company that contains fires beautifully and builds nothing.
Here is the shift that changes everything.
See more on the Uncommon Love Podcast. Part 1 out now, Part 2 drops 9/22. Link ⬇️
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Grace Fawcett@gracefawcett·Sep 15
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Grace FawcettDC@gracefawcett·Sep 11
@gracefawcett·Sep 11I said yes to a beautiful conversation.
I joined Audrell Fuqua (@Audrell Beloved) on the Uncommon Love Podcast, and we went straight at something I lived through. The day my team ran a project better without me than I had been running it myself. That was the day I learned I was not the hero of the story. I was the bottleneck.
If you are the person every decision runs through, Part 1 is for you. It is live today. Part 2 comes September 22 where you catch your podcasts.
Watch it, then tell me. What is the one thing in your business that still cannot happen without you?
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Grace Fawcett@gracefawcett·Sep 11
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Grace FawcettDC@gracefawcett·Sep 10
@gracefawcett·Sep 10Before Dominion Order Co., Grace Fawcett helped run a national anti-trafficking hotline, where a disorganized system meant calls dropped and people did not get reached. That taught her structure is never just paperwork. It is whether the mission reaches the person it was built for. She brings that conviction to the businesses she orders.
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Grace FawcettDC@gracefawcett·Sep 10
@gracefawcett·Sep 10Many founders never ask for help because they believe they should figure it out themselves. AI has made that easier to believe, since the tools now promise to build the system for you. And they could. But capable was never the question.
The question is leverage: spend two years reinventing your structure by trial and error, or borrow one that works and build what only you can.
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Grace FawcettDC@gracefawcett·Sep 8
@gracefawcett·Sep 8Here is a quick diagnostic. If you had to disappear from your business for two weeks with no phone, what would break first? That list is not a source of dread. It is the exact map of what to build so that next time, nothing breaks.
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Grace FawcettDC@gracefawcett·Sep 6
@gracefawcett·Sep 6Being needed feels like being valuable, but look closer. A business that cannot run without you has not made you important. It has made you unable to leave. That is a cage with your name on it. The most valuable thing you can build is something that runs without you.