The "I'll Just Do It Myself" Tax
Let's do the math. If you're a founder or a VP, your time is expensive. Call it $300 to $1,000 an hour. Now take something stupid and common: you spend 45 minutes reformatting a slide deck because your team "didn't get it right." That's 0.75 hours. At $300/hour, that's $225. At $1,000/hour, that's $750. To reformat slides—on a task a $25/hour VA could do with a template. Now multiply that across a week, then a month, then a quarter. That's not "inefficiency." That's a tax we pay because we haven't built a delegation system that produces clean handoffs and consistent output. How many hours did you spend last week on work someone else could have done? Post the number. If you want, give an example.