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113. Mike DeJong, Restaurateur and Author of Grow Smart joins us today for a conversation about The Operator Trap
What happens when the thing that made you successful becomes the very thing holding your business back?
On this episode of The Cutting Onions Podcast, we sit down with Mike DeJong for a conversation about growth, leadership, systems, and one of the hardest transitions entrepreneurs and operators have to make: learning how to step out of the day-to-day without becoming disconnected from the business.
We talk about what Mike calls the “Operator Trap”—when the leader becomes the person everyone depends on to solve problems, make decisions, and keep things moving.
That may work for a while.
But…
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