Aug 13, 2026 · 12 min · 8 segments
In this solo episode, I'm answering three of the business questions I get asked all the time: What's the best piece of business advice I've ever received? What would I do differently if I could go…
Mike GarveyHost
And One of them, so I just want to pull out three, give you my answers, and kind of help me also to reflect on some things that I have going on.
But one of them being, I get a lot, is what is the best piece of business advice that you've ever received? And I answer this in a couple of different ways.
Number one being I recommend people learn how to delegate and to help others excel and get people in the right positions.
I want my technician to be the best technician and know everything about the lawns and just really master his job.
I really wanted to put people in the right positions and don't be the bottleneck of your business because that's how you're going to not grow.
If you think no one can do it better than you, you're the only one that could do this certain job, you're not gonna grow.
And I've seen it firsthand with many businesses and people stunt their growth by making everything flow through them.
But... success early on you might be super busy but if you're answering every phone call putting out fires doing everything and if everything depends on you you're doing a job not necessarily owning a business but really i would build a business that doesn't need you every single second of the day being involved in everything mean doesn't necessarily mean you're a good business owner but you need to trust your people Give them, know their goals, know their one, three, five year goals and help them achieve those goals and help them grow.
So I think a lot of it comes down to delegating, trusting people, documenting processes, work on your business rather than in it.
And One of them, so I just want to pull out three, give you my answers, and kind of help me also to reflect on some things that I have going on.
But one of them being, I get a lot, is what is the best piece of business advice that you've ever received? And I answer this in a couple of different ways.
Number one being I recommend people learn how to delegate and to help others excel and get people in the right positions.
I want my technician to be the best technician and know everything about the lawns and just really master his job.
I really wanted to put people in the right positions and don't be the bottleneck of your business because that's how you're going to not grow.
If you think no one can do it better than you, you're the only one that could do this certain job, you're not gonna grow.
And I've seen it firsthand with many businesses and people stunt their growth by making everything flow through them.
But... success early on you might be super busy but if you're answering every phone call putting out fires doing everything and if everything depends on you you're doing a job not necessarily owning a business but really i would build a business that doesn't need you every single second of the day being involved in everything mean doesn't necessarily mean you're a good business owner but you need to trust your people Give them, know their goals, know their one, three, five year goals and help them achieve those goals and help them grow.
So I think a lot of it comes down to delegating, trusting people, documenting processes, work on your business rather than in it.
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