Organizing the eventual enterprise
It can be difficult, as you sit around your cramped card table in your dingy studio apartment, eating Top Ramen while hatching your plans to bootstrap a force for global domination, to even dare dream of the day when you will actually be able to afford to delegate some of your life's work to some other soul, some poor wretch not burning with the fires of inspiration that possess you, some average sap off the street who will almost certainly badly interpret your careful instructions and utterly destroy everything that is good and whole and imaginative in your effort. Still, you can't do it all alone, not for long, and not if global domination is really what you are destined for. But that's a problem for tomorrow… today, you still have to stuff all these envelopes….
Delegation is a tremendous problem for many entrepreneurs; the visionaries frequently have difficultly articulating and supervising, the technicians can't bear to give things up, and the managers sometimes can't see past the costs involved to understand all the benefits. But building a business for delegation has more benefits than just the eventual ability to actually delegate. The very act of systematizing that is necessary for delegating to subordinates also has a powerful organizing and clarifying effect even for processes that you remain in control of.
John Jantsch at Duct Tape Marketing lists five steps toward getting your business on the path to being delegatable, and talks about some of the more internal benefits that even solo entrepreneurs can realize from the effort.