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Business By Design
Business by Design is the podcast for owners who want to start, scale or exit a business. Each week, Stuart Wemyss and Mena Abraham unpack the four things every business must get right: value, engine, reach and team. Using the VERT flywheel, they show how these fit together to build a business that runs without you, and how the choices you make inside the business flow through to your personal wealth, lifestyle and exit options. Every episode is short and to the point, with no fluff and no sales pitches.
Business By Design
Ep 174: The delegation tax- saving money is costing you millions
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Most business owners focus on hiring costs while completely missing what their own time costs the business.
In this episode, Stuart and Mena unpack “The Delegation Tax,” the hidden cost of founders staying too involved in low-value work. It’s not salaries that hold businesses back; it’s bottlenecks. When decision-making, approvals, and execution all run through one person, growth slows, opportunities are missed, and the business becomes harder to scale.
Mena explores why “I’ll just do it myself” feels efficient in the moment but creates long-term drag, and the critical difference between operator speed and owner leverage. He introduces the concept of the hourly value ladder, showing how time spent on low-value tasks quietly erodes business performance.
The episode also breaks down what effective delegation actually looks like, from assigning clear decision rights to building simple control layers like approvals and audit trails. Without this, delegation often creates more interruptions, not less.
You’ll learn what to delegate first, how to avoid vague instructions that lead to rework, and why delegation should be treated as an investment, not a cost.
A practical, no-nonsense guide to removing yourself as the bottleneck and unlocking real scale.
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