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NY Times

By PAUL B. BROWN
It’s a tautology, of course. If you insist on doing everything yourself, your business will never grow beyond what you can personally handle.

People who run small businesses know this, but as Beth Schneider, president of Process Prodigy, which “helps business owners leverage the best business practices,” points out on Entrepreneur.com there’s “something in us that fights against asking for help.” She added: “It’s almost like there’s some rite of passage in being able to do it all ourselves. But the reality is, you can’t do it all and focus on your strengths without stretching yourself in too many directions.”

And that means small-business owners need to delegate, if they wish to grow, a concept, she concedes, that can be difficult to accept.

“Delegation is about handing over authority, and for many small business owners, that’s a scary concept because you don’t know what will happen when you give up control,” she writes.

WHY NOT? Michele Hanson-O’Reggio, writing on solo-e.com, a Web site for business owners with no employees, agrees that fear is a major reason that entrepreneurs do not delegate.